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  • In the path of the Maize God: a royal tomb at Nakum, Petén, Guatemala

  • Jarosław Źrałka, Wiesław Koszkul, Simon Martin, Bernard Hermes
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 85 / Issue 329 / September 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 890-908
    Print publication:
    September 2011

  • The authors describe the excavation and interpretation of an intact seventh-century high status burial at the Maya site of Nakum. The dead person wore an incised pectoral with an eventful biography, having started out as an Olmec heirloom 1000 years before. No less impressive was the series of votive rituals found to have been enacted at the tomb for another 100 years or more. The beautiful objects, their architectural setting and the long story they recount, offer a heart-breaking indictment of the multiple losses due to looting.