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Round Structures, Household Identity, and Public Performance in Preclassic Maya Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Julia A. Hendon
Julia A. Hendon*
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325
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Abstract

James Aimers and colleagues consider the social meaning and function of round structures, a poorly understood but significant architectural feature of many Preclassic Maya sites. Based on my own work on the connection between such structures and the development of social stratification and changes in the relations between households and the state, I offer additional examples of the location and role of these structures in order to expand on the insights offered by Aimers et al.

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James Aimers y sus colegas discuten el significado social y la función de estructuras circulares, un tipo importante de elementos arquitectónicos en muchos sitios preclásicos mayas de los que poco se entiende. Con base en mis investigaciones acerca de esta clase de estructuras y del desarrollo de estratificación social y de los cambios en las relaciones entre unidades domésticas y el estado, presento ejemplos adicionales de la ubicación y papel de estas estructuras con la finalidad de ampliar las perspectivas que presentan Aimers et al.

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , September 2000 , pp. 299 - 301
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Copyright © 2000 by the Society for American Archaeology

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