2022 article

Excavating the Third Root Constructing Archaeological Narratives That Include Afro-Yucatecans

COLONIALITY IN THE MAYA LOWLANDS, pp. 58–80.

By: J. Wesp* 

Source: Web Of Science
Added: September 11, 2023

Archaeologists working in historically Maya-speaking territories (today's southeastern Mexico, Belize, northern Honduras, and Guatemala) have long influenced developments across the discipline.These researchers have produced a rich body of scholarship exploring Maya society before Spanish invasion and settlement.They have contributed regionally and internationally, creating and testing new standards for archaeological practice, perfecting innovative scientific techniques, exploring the inclusion of ethnographic and epigraphic methods, and helping illuminate the processes involved in the rise, maintenance, and collapse of intricate state-level societies (Marcus 2003;Nichols and Pool 2012;Chase and Chase 2016).Unlike archaeology in other settler colonial societies such as the United States and Australia, however, Mayanist archaeology has been slower to embrace the study of post-fifteenth-century life in the region (but see Rice and Rice 2004; Kepecs and Alexander 2005; Alexander and Kepecs 2018; Alexander 2019).