Diet
Freshwater Turtles, White Tailed Deer, and ........ were used for protein/meat intake
Hint *Marcus 2003, Recent Adventures in Maya Archaeology, pg 78*
What is domestic dog?
Karstic flat-lands, usually made of soluble limestone
What is a polje?
The "central figure on the late Preclassic San Baertolo murals and may be accompanied by a ----- Godess" (Pugh 2022, 575)
Who is the Maize God?
The deliberate destruction of a significant site in a ritualistic context is known as?
What is Termination ritual?
The Mayan god of war.
Who is Buluc Chabtan?
"was consumed by the Middle Preclassic period Maya and earlier by the Olmec" (Pugh 2022, 554)
What is Cacao?
“Include any prepared land involving the transfer and elevation of soil above the natural surface of the earth in order to improve cultivation. {Turner 1974}
What is a Raised Field?
"a line formed or implied by architecture or natural features that served as a foundation point for other constructions and life in the settlement. The Avenue of the Dead at Teotihuacan in central Mexico is a good example" (Pugh 2022, 569).
What is an axis urbis?
The earliest evidence of large scale architectural destruction by invaders in the Mayan heartland occurred during what period?
What is Middle Preclassic?
Kennett et al. suggest that by studying past ___ can also explain warfare and social change among the Maya
What is climate?
"At Cuello, ______ _____ far surpassed marine fish consumption in the Middle Preclassic period, but the ratio reversed in the Late Preclassic period" (Pugh 2022, 553-554).
What is Freshwater Fish?
The period that had the most intensive land management and agriculture in Ancient Maya?
What is Late Classic?
"Women would have conducted such practices as they cared for children... The shaping may have been intended to strengthen local identi-ties through the use of international styles, which were tied to divinity" (Pugh 2022, 575).
What is Cranial Deformation?
Despite frequent doubts of war described in glyphs, what evidence of war is surprisingly scarce?
What are Mass graves?
The prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair harmed not only mayan studies, but every other topic in this course.
What is bias?
"_________ seems to have decreased in the Classic period compared to the Preclassic" (Pugh 2022, 553) .
What is Health?
Which period is agriculture theorized to have started in Ancient Maya?
What is Late Archaic?
"Maya polities were certainly face-less'' (Pugh 2022, 581).
What is Middle Preclassic lowland Maya?
During the colonial period, Mayan military commanders were known as what?
Nacoms
Pul: ‘‘________’’; this glyph is often found in connec-tion with captives and might sometimes also re-fer to particular places that were ______ (delib-erate destruction?).
Webster 2000
To Burn
"The frequency of ____ _____ _________ increased dramatically at Cuello and other sites during the Late Preclassic/Early Classic periods" (Pugh 2022, 553)
What is linear enamel hypoplasia ?
The agricultural practice that the Maya were commonly associated with?
What is Swidden?
"Thus, ____________ evoke contest, creation, cyclical time, maize, and the Underworld" (Pugh 2022, 566).
Ballcourts
Continous warfare between Tikal, Caracol, and their allies lasted for at least how many years a indicated by glyphs?
150 years
A wooden club adorn with sharp stones across two sides
What is a macuahuitl?