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Yucatec Influence in Terminal Classic Northern Belize

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Diane Z. Chase  and
Arlen F. Chase
Diane Z. Chase
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Arlen F. Chase
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Abstract

Excavations undertaken during 1978 and 1979 at Nohmul, Belize are believed to cast new light on the demise of the Maya. Investigations revealed Terminal Classic-San Jose V material intermixed with Late Classic to Early Postclassic Yucatec material in a single-unit refuse deposit. More importantly, striking architectural similarities exist between structures at Nohmul and Chichen-Itza; Structure 20 at Nohmul proved to be of the “patio-quad” type known previously only from Chichen-Itza, and Structure 9 of Nohmul may be put forth as a “Caracol” (Chichen-Itza Structure 3C15) counterpart. On the basis of excavations at Nohmul, it is implied that there is an association between Toltec Chichen-Itza (Sotuta) and the Terminal Classic periods to the south (San Jose V-Tepeu 3), in that the two are overlapping, if not coeval. Should this be the case, new alternatives relating to the Maya collapse must be considered.

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American Antiquity , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , July 1982 , pp. 596 - 614
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1982

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