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The Exemplary Center of the Late Postclassic Kowoj Maya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Timothy W. Pugh
Timothy W. Pugh*
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Department of Anthropology, Queens College/CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11367-0904
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Abstract

The ceremonial architecture of Late Postclassic Mayapán (A.D. 1268–1441) in Yucatán, Mexico, included repetitive arrangements of buildings known as temple assemblages. Archaeological investigations conducted by the Proyecto Maya Colonial in Petén, Guatemala, revealed a pocket of temple assemblages in a zone occupied by the seventeenth century Kowoj Maya. The Kowoj claimed to have migrated from Mayapán sometime after the city’s collapse in A.D. 1441. Indigenous documents also describe Kowoj in Mayapán and linguistic data indicate migrations between Yucatán and Petén as well. A specific variant of temple assemblage defines the location of the Kowoj in both Mayapán and Petén. I argue that these assemblages were the exemplary centers or microcosms of the Kowoj social and physical universe and they were transplanted as the Kowoj re-centered themselves in new or, perhaps, reclaimed lands. The temple assemblages also communicated a prestigious connection with Mayapán and differentiated the Kowoj from their neighbors in Petén.

Investigaciones arqueológicas en Petén, Guatemala, de 1994 a 1997 han revelado que en la parte noreste de la región de los lagos del Petén existe un patrón de grupos ceremoniales del periodo Postclásico Tardío (1268 a 1441 d.C.) que no se encuentra en ningún otra área del Petén. Este patrón es casi idéntico a algunos conjuntos arquitectónicos ceremoniales en Mayapán, Yucatán, México, conocidos como "conjuntos de templos." Documentos históricos indican que en el siglo diecisiete los Kowoj ocupaban la región en el Petén donde ocurre este patrón arquitectónico y decian haber emigrado de Mayapán. Este trabajo examina conjuntos de templos excavados en el sitio de Zacpetén en el Petén y conjuntos de templos investigados en Mayapán. Estos grupos ceremoniales componen un tipo específico de conjuntos de templos correlacionado con las localidades Kowoj. Este patrón específico se diferencia de otros conjuntos arquitectónicos por la presencia de dos salones de linaje en vez de uno y una cueva natural o artificial en la parte oeste del grupo. Estos conjuntos fueron los centros ejemplares de los Kowoj, los cuales fueron trasplantados cuando los Kowoj se reubicaron en tierras nuevas o quizás reclamadas. De esta manera, los Kowoj comunicaban una conexión prestigiosa con Mayapán.

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 408 - 430
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