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Notes for a Sequence of Rulers of Machaquilá

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Federico Fahsen
Federico Fahsen*
Affiliation:
Fahsen & Asociados, Edificio Plazuela 2-04, Zona 9, Guatemala, Guatemala, C.A.
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Abstract

This article proposes a sequence of rulers for Machaquilá, as south-central Petén site which flourished in the Late and Terminal Classic periods. A number of articles on this matter about other Maya sites have appeared since Tatiana Proskouriakoff’s publication on Piedras Negras, in which she identified initial and inaugural glyphs. While Machaquilá’s monuments lack such event glyphs, the date patterns involved, as well as the identification of name glyphs and titles, permit the establishment of a sequence of rulers, an explanation for the fall of Machaquilá (usurpation or conquest by a non-Classic Maya ruler), and a possible reason for the collapse of Tikal.

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American Antiquity , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , January 1984 , pp. 94 - 104
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1984

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