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  • Making Something of Herself: Embodiment in Life and Death at Playa de los Muertos, Honduras

  • Rosemary A. Joyce
  • Journal:
    Cambridge Archaeological Journal / Volume 13 / Issue 2 / October 2003
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 November 2003, pp. 248-261
    Print publication:
    October 2003

  • Through an analysis of hand-modelled human figurines created in the Ulua River Valley of northern Honduras between 900 and 200 bc, this article explores the recursive links between crafting representations of bodies and crafting physical bodies. ‘Playa de los Muertos’-style figurines are characterized by extremely detailed treatment of hair and ornaments. They have been treated as unique portraits, each individualized, and have resisted broader archaeological interpretation. Drawing on recent excavation data, this article explores the treatment of bodies and representations of bodies within a single set of interconnected villages as material media of embodiment.