[Aztlan] New Mayapan Settlement Study Website and Dissertation Available

Tue Jun 17 18:05:22 CDT 2008

Hi Brad...

Thank you for sharing all your work *freely*... I think a lot of webpages
and investigators should share their investigations by the same way you
did...
Would you permit a question about the Mayapan map we can see on your website
? The reference is Proskouriakoff, 1957. But I looked for the entire
reference in your references and in my own books, and I didn't find anything
at all. Could you give us all the reference, please ?
Do you know how to contact Carlos Peraza Lope, director of the Mayapan
Project ? I haven't seen him for years I suppose you may know him.

Bertrand LOBJOIS
UdeM - Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.

2008/6/12 Bradley Russell <bradley_russell en hotmail.com>:

>
> Dear Listeros,
> I wanted to let you know that my recently completed dissertation,
> Postclassic Maya Settlement on the Rural-Urban Fringe of Mayapan Mexico is
> now available.
>
> I launched a new project website yesterday:
>
> mayapanperiphery.net
>
> Please check it out.  It details and previews the findings of theis new
> settlement study.  There are numerous maps and figures there and I will be
> adding many more over the next couple of weeks and then when I get back from
> the field in the fall.  I hope it contains useful data for many of you.
>
> Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you have.
>
> The full dissertation can be downloaded in PDF format from the page's
> downloads page or by following these direct links:
>
> Volume I - http://mayapanperiphery.net/Russell-2008-Vol-1.pdf
> Volume II - http://mayapanperiphery.net/Russell-2008-Vol-2.pdf
>
> Be warned they are rather large files and the download times are kind of
> long. But it is a lot faster than ordering it through your local library.
>
> A PDF of a recent poster sized map detailing key settlement features and
> overall site organization can also be downloaded from the site.
>
>
>
>
> As a preview here's a short abstract describing the work:
>
> Postclassic Maya Settlement on the Rural Urban Fringe of Mayapán, Yucatán,
> Mexico (2008)
>
> abstract     This dissertation details the results of a multi-year
> (2001-2004) study of settlement patterning on the periphery of the
> Postclassic Maya capital of Mayapán, Yucatán, Mexico (regional map).
>  Ethnohistoric and archaeological evidence both suggest that the site was
> the capital of the last powerful Pre-Hispanic regional polity in the area.
>  The apparently coerced resettlement of local elites and portions of the
> populations of provinces that came under Mayapán's control to its site
> center (Proskouriakoff 1957 map) led to a very rapid rise of the site and an
> equally rapid fissioning and depopulation when internal strife resulted in
> its demise. In contrast to earlier Classic Period political centers, Mayapán
> is a very large and dense settlement (site map).  The massive defensive
> walls surrounding the site are arguably the most formidable anywhere in
> Mesoamerica.  The obvious differences in settlement patterning seem to
> reflect significant social changes taking place b!
>  etween the two major periods of Maya pre-history.       Research reported
> in this volume includes mapping, test pitting and soil sampling of
> architecture encountered along eight survey transects extending 1 km in
> various cardinal directions from the city's roughly 9 km city wall.  The
> study analyzed the form and function of all architecture recorded in this
> previously unexplored portion of the site.  New data presented here suggest
> that some 17,000 people were present at the site, rather than the 12,000
> person population estimate that has been widely used since 1962.  The
> estimated site size more than doubled from 4.2 sq km to between 8.8 sq km
> (map) and 10.1 sq km (map).  The site-wide spatial distribution and function
> of, residential settlement zones, economic production activities, the road
> system, administrative architecture and ritual architecture are all explored
> in detail.  The results presented here and being generated by other ongoing
> research at the site by both I!
>  NAH and Dr. Marilyn Masson of SUNY – Albany raise important questions
> about the scale of political complexity achieved by the polity centered at
> the site.  The complexity, size and form of the city suggest that it may be
> the capital of a previously unappreciated Maya/Itza empire that co-existed
> with other better known Postclassic empires such as the Aztecs and
> Tarascans.
>
> Hope to hear from you soon,
>
> Brad Russell
>
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