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Of Flesh and Stone: Labor Investment and Regional Sociopolitical Implications of Plaza/Batey Construction at the Ceremonial Center of Tibes (A.D. 600-A.D. 1200), Puerto Rico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Joshua M. Torres ,
L. Antonio Curet ,
Scott Rice-Snow ,
Melissa J. Castor  and
Andrew K. Castor
Joshua M. Torres
Affiliation:
National Park Service, 2100 Church St. #100 Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands 00820([email protected])
L. Antonio Curet
Affiliation:
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Cultural Center, 4220 Suitland MD 20746([email protected])
Scott Rice-Snow
Affiliation:
Ball State University, Department of Geological Sciences Muncie, IN 47306([email protected])
Melissa J. Castor
Affiliation:
Ball State University, Department of Geological Sciences Muncie, IN 47306([email protected])
Andrew K. Castor
Affiliation:
Ball State University, Department of Geological Sciences Muncie, IN 47306([email protected])
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Abstract

Ceremonial architecture of late precontact (A.D. 600-1500) societies of Puerto Rico consists of stone-lined plazas and ball courts (bateys,). Archaeologists use these structures to signify the onset of hierarchical “chiefly” polities and to interpret their regional organization. Problematically, little consideration is given to the costs of their physical construction and the associated organizational implications at local and regional scales. In this paper, we use data gathered through geoarchaeological field investigations to develop labor estimates for the plaza and bateys at the site of Tibes—one of the largest precolumbian ceremonial centers in Puerto Rico. The estimates provide a basis for addressing how these features were constructed at the site and are considered within the broader organizational contexts of incipient polities in the island's south-central region between A.D. 600 and A.D. 1200.

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La arquitectura ceremonial de las sociedades del período precolombino tardío (d.C. 600-1500) de Puerto Rico consiste de plazas y canchas de pelota (o bateyes) delimitadas por hileras de piedras. Los arqueólogos han utilizado estas estructuras como evidencia de entidades políticas jerárquica, cacicalespara interpretar sus organizaciones regionales. Unproblema de esta práctica es que se la ha dado poca consideración al costo de la construcción de estas estructuras y a las implicaciones organizacionales a nivel local y regional. En este trabajo usamos evidencia obtenida a través de investigaciones geoarqueológicas para inferir una estimación de la mano de obra necesaria para la construcción de las plazas y bateyes en Tubes - uno de los centros ceremoniales más grande precolombinos de Puerto Rico. Los estimados obtenidos sirven como cimientos para la determinación de cómo estos elementos fueron construido en el sitio. Los resultados son considerados dentro de los contextos amplios organizacionales de estas entidades politicas en la región sur-central de la isla entre los años del 600 y 1200 d.C.

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 125 - 151
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