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Resources, Specialization, and Exchange in the Maya Lowlands

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The American Southwest and Mesoamerica

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Abstract

The Classic period Maya lived on a peninsular cul-de-sac geographically isolated from other Mesoamerican groups. Although their cultural uniqueness, manifested particularly in their writing system, is often overblown in both scholarly and popular accounts, nevertheless the geographical position of the Maya Lowlands—surrounded by water on three sides and by a chain of mountains on the fourth—did contribute an insular dimension to the process of state formation and maintenance. This insularity contrasts with more highly interactive regions to the west—the Gulf Lowlands (Santley and Pool, this volume)—and in Lower Central America (Hoopes, this volume) where interregional connections on both political and social levels have resulted in a stronger material imprint of interaction in the archaeological record. Although the political structure of the Maya Lowlands, one of multiple, competing states, may have reinforced a pattern of localized production and small-scale exchange networks, nevertheless the quintessential “exotic” elements of status (and later badges of office) such as jade, shell, amber, obsidian, and plumage were in great demand throughout the Maya Lowlands. This demand engendered the development of protracted, multinodal networks of trade, tribute, and gift giving that linked the Maya with the rest of Mesoamerica, albeit on a sporadic basis. Set within the context of the lowland Maya landscape, this chapter examines both local exchange networks that appear to have been organized at the household level and the elite procurement of exotic raw materials that were transformed into sumptuary goods by artisans organized by the “palace.”

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