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The Seating of the tun: Further Evidence concerning a Late Preclassic Lowland Maya Stela Cult

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John S. Justeson  and
Peter Mathews
John S. Justeson
Affiliation:
Butterville at Mountain Rest, New Paltz, NY 12561
Peter Mathews
Affiliation:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Abstract

Hieroglyphic and comparative linguistic evidence indicate that a Lowland Maya stela cult had been in existence, with monuments being erected predominantly or exclusively at the end of the 360-day year, in Late Preclassic times. These data corroborate Hammond's (1982) evidence for Late Preclassic stela erection. With his demonstration that the stela cult was associated with public architecture and a sacrificial burial at Cuello, the inference that contemporaneous stelae were erected primarily at year-endings establishes the complete Lowland Maya form of the stela cult well before the end of the Late Preclassic. It indicates that the cult was contemporaneous with Pacific coastal and adjacent highland stela cults, and developed at least partially in independence of the latter.

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American Antiquity , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , July 1983 , pp. 586 - 593
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1983

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