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SOLARES, kitchen gardens, and social status at Coba
cobá, a classic maya metropolis • New York • Published In 1983 • Pages: 103-119
By: Fletcher, Laraine A., Kintz, Ellen R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Fletcher analyzes the 144 stone house-lot boundary walls in Zone I at Cobá. These stone house-lot boundary walls are assumed to be similar to modern day and 16th century SOLARES which contain household activity areas and usually kitchen gardens. Fletcher determines many of these walled areas (the ones covering smaller areas) probably served as retaining walls to retard soil erosion from raised gardern areas. She found a correlation between SOLAR size and vaulted architecture. Fletcher also found elite households were located in all areas of the city, probably for governing purposes. For more information on SOLARES and linear features see chapters 6 and 8 in document numbers 22 and 24.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Tillage
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Status, role, and prestige
- Household
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Classic Maya
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- Sarah Berry; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1974-1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Classic Period
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cobá; Quintana Roo, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Laraine A. Fletcher and Ellen R. Kintz
- For bibliographical information see document number 35: Anonymous
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82008895
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas--Antiquities