essay
The community of Cuello: patterns of household and settlement change
cuello : an early maya community in belize • Cambridge [England] • Published In 1991 • Pages: 118-133
By: Wilk, Richard R., Wilhite, Harold L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Wilk and Wilhite, Jr. search for evidence to support their thesis that a majority of Ancient Mayans lived in perishable dwellings which left no physical remains, such as housemounds. They argue that housemounds may be a feature of politically prominent, property owning families. In an effort to count the whole population, including the landless, tenants, servants and slaves, they set out to estimate the population of Cuello from size of refuse area. They estimated a non-mound population during the Late Preclassic of 1876-2346 and 252 for mound households.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Population
- Archaeological survey methods
- Dwellings
- Miscellaneous structures
- Settlement patterns
- Cultural stratigraphy
- 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
- 1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 3200-1850 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cuello, Belize
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard R. Wilk and Harold L. Wilhite, Jr.
- For bibliographical references see document number 9: Anonymous
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90001858
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas--Antiquities