CHALLENGES IN BUILDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL CHRONOLOGIES IN THE STANN CREEK DISTRICT

Author:

Peuramaki-Brown Meaghan M.1,Morton Shawn G.2,Longstaffe Mathew2,Jordan Jillian M.

Affiliation:

1. Athabasca University

2. University of Calgary

Abstract

Key to archaeological research is our ability to recognize and define material-culture patterns and organize such patterns in time and space. Since 2014, the Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project (SCRAP) has focused on understanding processes of settlement development and growth at the Ancestral Maya town of Alabama in East-Central Belize, constructed and occupied primarily during the transition period between the late facet of the Late Classic to Terminal Classic periods. While we may never know precisely who settled Alabama and why, we aim to answer questions about the where, when, and how of its development in our ongoing research. In following these lines of inquiry, we have had to grapple with several obstacles that have frustrated standard practices of building archaeological chronologies at the site. Such barriers include earthen-core architecture with minimal artifact refuse within platform cores. Additionally, local and regional soil conditions that result in a poorly preserved and highly fragmentary ceramic assemblage and no preservation of human or faunal remains to date. Finally, we face the difficulties of constraining the radiocarbon calibration curve during the primary period of Alabama’s settlement and growth. This paper details these problems and outlines our various approaches in their confrontation.

Publisher

Institute of Archaeology

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