Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-j824f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-13T02:20:03.558Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

No slow dusk: Maya urban development and decline at La Milpa, Belize

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Norman Hammond ,
Gair Tourtellot ,
Sara Donaghey  and
Amanda Clarke
Norman Hammond
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215, USA, ndch@bu.edu
Gair Tourtellot
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215, USA, ndch@bu.edu
Sara Donaghey
Affiliation:
50 Tinopai Road, Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand
Amanda Clarke
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 218, Reading RG6 2AA, England
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The 1998 excavations at the Maya city of La Milpa have revealed important structures of the ruling élite, including several throne rooms, but also evidence for a sudden cessation of élite activity when the occupation was at its height. Extensive mapping suggests a population of some 46,000 over a short period in the 8th and 9th centuries AD.

Keywords

MayaBelizepyramidsstelaeClassic periodthrones
Type
Notes
Information
Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 278 , December 1998 , pp. 831 - 837
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Adams, R.E.W. 1990. Archaeological Research at the Lowland Maya city of Rio Azul, Latin American Antiquity 1: 23–41.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Grube, N. 1994. A preliminary report on the monuments and inscriptions of La Milpa, Orange Walk, Belize, (new series) 42: 217–38.Google Scholar
Hammond, N. 1991 The discovery of La Milpa, Mexican 13: 46–51.Google Scholar
Hammond, N. & Bobo, M.R. 1994. Pilgrimage’s last mile: late Maya monument veneration at La Milpa, Belize, World Archaeology 26: 19–34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hammond, N. & Tourtellot, G. 1998. La Milpa: a Classic Maya city of the eastern lowlands, Proceedings of the 13th UlSPP, Forlì 1996 5(17): 493–8.Google Scholar
Hammond, N., Tourtellot, G., Donaghey, S. & Clarke, A. 1996. Survey and excavation at La Milpa, Belize, 1996, Mexicon 18: 86–91.Google Scholar
Martin, S. & Grube, N. 1995 Maya super-states, Archaeology 48(6): 41–6 Google Scholar
Schultz, K.C, Gonzalez, J.J. & Hammond, N. 1994. Classic Maya ballcourts at La Milpa, Belize, Ancient Mesoamerico 5: 45–53.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tourtellot, G., Clarke, A. & Hammond, N. 1993. Mapping La Milpa: a Maya city in northwestern Belize, Antiquity 67: 96–108.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tourtellot, G., Everson, G., Kosakowsky, L. & Hammond, N. 1998. Suburban administration: minor centers at La Milpa, Belize. Paper presented in symposium: The social implications of ancient Maya rural complexity, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle (WA).Google Scholar
Tourtellot, G., Rose, J.J., Grube, N., Donaghey, S. & Hammond, N. 1994. More light on La Milpa: Maya settlement archaeology in northwestern Belize, Mexicon 16: 119–24.Google Scholar
Tourtellot, G., Rose, J.J. & Hammond, N. 1996. Maya settlement survey at La Milpa, Belize, 1994, Mexicon 18: 8–11.Google Scholar