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The Late Preclassic Sula Plain, Honduras: regional antecedents to social complexity and interregional convergence in ceramic style
formation of complex society in southeastern mesoamerica • Boca Raton • Published In 1991 • Pages: 143-169
By: Wonderley, Anthony.
Abstract
In this study, Wonderley focuses on the Uapala ceramic sphere of the Sula Plain in northwestern Honduras. Uapala ceramics are similar to the Usulutan resist pottery that is found widely distributed in the southeastern highlands, including sites at Copan, the Comayagua Valley, Lake Yojoa and Sula Plain. Wonderly reports on the architecture and ceramics of the Playa de los Muertos and Río Pelo sites, focussing on the Playa (450-150 B.C.) and Early Chamelecon (150 B.C.-150 A.D.) phases. Although the Uapala sphere exhibits many local decorative variations, it does share a similar class of large serving dishes, which Wonderley believes are used in feasts, suggesting that the region was linked together by the practice of inter-group feasting.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2001
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Maya Area
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field Date
- not specified
- Coverage Date
- 2450-1850 BP
- Coverage Place
- Sula Plain, Honduras
- Notes
- Anthony Wonderley
- Revised papers from the 86th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Nov. 1987, and additional material
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-169)
- LCCN
- 91010478
- LCSH
- Mayas--Antiquities