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Terminal Classic Interaction on the Southeastern Maya Periphery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Rosemary A. Joyce
Rosemary A. Joyce*
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Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Abstract

A review of material from Copan, originally assigned a post A.D. 1000 date, suggests the existence of two separate temporal episodes, one a Terminal Classic equivalent. A rare trade ceramic found in this Copan Terminal Classic and at contemporary Seibal is also present in a ceramic group of Lepa phase (A.D. 625–1000) Quelepa, El Salvador. This identification supports the placement of the Copan material in the Terminal Classic. New data from the Ulua Valley, northwest Honduras, document an extreme southeastern extension of the Terminal Classic Altar Fine Orange ceramic sphere of Seibal. Two networks of interaction linking the southeastern extreme of Mesoamerica and the western Maya area suggested by these ceramic correlations are examined, and the processes involved are discussed.

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American Antiquity , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , April 1986, pp. 313 - 329
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1986

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