essay
The Peten Postclassic: perspectives from the Central Peten Lakes
late lowland maya civilization : classic to postclassic • Albuquerque • Published In 1986 • Pages: 251-299
By: Rice, Prudence M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Rice examines Postclassic ceramics in the Petén to show that people continued to occupy the lake basins and the people living there were not isolated from the rest of the Maya. Ceramic production was regionalized and there is evidence of both regional and inter-regional trade in ceramics, with most of the long distance trade with the highlands to the south. She also believes some of the Yucatan polychromes were inspired by Petén ceramics.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Prehistory
- Cultural participation
- Ceramic technology
- Settlement patterns
- Internal trade
- External trade
- Visual arts
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Postclassic 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
- Sarah Berry ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1973-1974 and 1979-1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Terminal Classic through Postclassic
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central Petén lake basins; Guatemala
- NotesAdditional notes
- Prudence M. Rice
- For bibliographical references see document number 6:Anonymous
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85016513
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas--Antiquities