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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 W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ceramic technology
- Utensils
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Preclassic Maya
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2001
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Maya Area
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2450-1850 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sula Plain, Honduras
- NotesAdditional 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)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 91010478
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas--Antiquities