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Bracketing the Copan Dynasty: Late Preclassic and Early Postclassic Settlements at Copan, Honduras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

T. Kam Manahan  and
Marcello A. Canuto
T. Kam Manahan
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, 226 Lowry Hall, Kent, OH 44242 ([email protected])
Marcello A. Canuto
Affiliation:
Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118-5698 ([email protected])
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Abstract

Archaeological research within the Classic Maya center of Copan and in its surrounding rural regions has generated new data relating to the periods both preceding and following the center’s Classic period dynasty. Recent excavations at both Late Preclassic and Early Postclassic settlements have revealed more similarities between the inhabitants of these two “non-Classic” time periods than to the inhabitants of the intervening and better known Classic period. We explore this striking set of similarities in terms of settlement pattern, spatial organization, architecture, material culture, and ritual deposits and spaces. We suggest that the similarities between the Copan region’s Late Preclassic and Early Postclassic populations and their mutual differences with intervening Classic period peoples reflecta cultural connection between these two populations.

Investigaciones arqueológicas en el centro Maya de Copan, Honduras y en sus alrededores rurales han generado sorprendentes datos sobre las poblaciones anteriores y posteriores a la época dinástica Clásica (D.C. 426–820) del centro. Excavaciones recientes de asentamientos del preclásico tardío y del posclásico temprano compararon una variedad de características independientes: patrones de asentamiento, organización espacial, estilo de arquitectura, tipo de cultura material, y depósitos y espacios rituales. Estos datos revelan que los habitantes de los dos periodos “no-Clásicos” se asemejan más uno al otro que a los habitantes del sobresaliente periodo Clásico. Se propone que estas las semejanzas entre poblaciones copanecas del preclásico tardío y del posclásico temprano (y sus divergencias mutuas con la población copaneca del periodo clásico) implica que 1) estas dos poblaciones compartieron un vínculo cultural, y 2) que la población del periodo clásico representa una discontinuidad en las tradiciones locales de la región de Copan.

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 553 - 580
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