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The Hidden Dead: Bioarchaeology of Ancient Maya Cave Ritual

September 24, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT

Dickinson College, Denny Hall, Room 317
West High Street
Carlisle, PA 17013 United States


Lecturer: Gabriel Wrobel

Use of caves by the ancient Maya appears to be ubiquitous. Archaeological explanations of Maya mortuary contexts in caves – in academic journals, television programs, and the popular press – have focused almost exclusively on sacrificial ritual. However, this rather sensationalist interpretation is not so clear-cut. This talk will cover some of the extensive pan-Mesoamerican corpus of ethnographic, ethnohistoric, epigraphic, iconographic, and linguistic sources to demonstrate how the Maya incorporated caves into their worldview and ritual. This talk then demonstrates the ways in which skeletal data can inform competing models of Maya mortuary cave use by highlighting recent bioarchaeological research in central Belize by the Central Belize Archaeological Survey(CBAS) Project.

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Date:
September 24, 2024
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT
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Andrew Dufton
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duftona@dickinson.edu

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Dickinson College, Denny Hall, Room 317
West High Street
Carlisle, PA 17013 United States
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