Soil geochemical analyses at the preclassic site of Xtobo, Yucatan, Mexico

Ancient Mesoamerica

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 365-377

  Anderson, David S ^a   Bair, Daniel A ^b   Terry, Richard E ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN;

EID: 84871768129     PISSN: 09565361     EISSN: 14691787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0956536112000247     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Anderson, David S. 2003 El asentamiento preclásico en la región noroeste de Yucatan. In Proyecto Costa Maya: Reporte interino, Temporada 2002: Reconocimiento arqueológico de la esquina noroeste de la peninsula de Yucatan, edited by Anthony P. Andrews and Fernando Robles Castellanos, pp. 46-61.
2. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Centro INAH Yucatan, Mérida.
3. Preclassic Settlement Patterns in Northwest Yucatan. Mono y Conejo 3:13-22.
4. Xtobo, Yucatan, Mexico: The Study of a Preclassic Maya Community. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI.
5. Xtobo, Yucatan, Mexico, and the Emergent Preclassic of the Northern Maya Lowlands. Ancient Mesoamerica 22:301-322.
6. Andrews, Anthony P., and Fernando Robles Castellanos 2004 An Archaeological Survey of Northwest Yucatan, Mexico. Mexicon 26(1):7-14.
7. Bair, Daniel. A., and Richard. E. Terry 2009 Estudios geoquímicos de suelo en Mayapán, temporada 2008. In Proyecto Los Fundamentos Del Poder Económico De Mayapán, Temporada 2008, edited by Marilyn A. Masson, Carlos Peraza Lope, and Timothy S. Hare, pp. 377-384. University at Albany-SUNY, Albany, NY.
8. Bair, Daniel, Richard Terry, and Matthew Moriarty 2006 Soil chemical analysis of ancient Maya activities at La Trinidad de Nosotros, Peten, Guatemala. Paper presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
9. Barba, Luis 1986 La quimica en el studio de areas de actividad. In Unidades habitacionales mesoamericanas y sus areas de actividad, edited by Linda Manzanilla, pp. 21-39. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City.
10. Chemical residues in lime plastered archaeological floors. Geoarchaeology 22:439-452.
11. Barba, Luis, and Agustín Ortiz 1992 Análisis químico de pisos de ocupación: un caso etnográfico en Tlaxcala, Mexico. Latin American Antiquity 3:63-82.
12. Barba, Luis, Fabienne De Pierreboug, Claudia Trejo, Agustín Ortiz, and Karl Link 1995 Activites humaines refletees dans les sols d'unites d'habitation contemporaine et prehispanizue du Yucatan (Mexique): Etudes chimiques, ethnoarcheologiques et archeologiques. Revue d'Archeomitrie 19:79-95.
13. Bautista, Francisco, Gerardo Palacio-Aponte, Patricia Quintana, and Joseph Alfred Zinck 2011 Spatial Distribution and Development of Soil in Tropical Karst Areas from the Peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico. Geomorphology 135: 308-321.
14. Bautista, Francisco and Joseph Alfred Zinck 2010 Construction of an (sic) Yucatec Maya Soil Classification andComparison with the WRB Framework. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 6(7):1-11.
15. Berdan, Frances F. 1985 Markets in the Economy of Aztec Mexico. In Markets and Marketing, edited by S. Plattner, pp. 51-66. Monographs in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 4. University Press of America, Lanham, MD.
16. Beach, Timothy 1998 Soil Constraints on Northwest Yucatan Mexico: Pedoarchaeology and Maya Subsistence at Chunchucmil. Geoarchaeology 13:759-791.
17. Brenner, Mark, Barbara W. Leyden, Jason H. Curtis, Roger M. Medina Gonzalez, and Bruce H. Dahlin 2003 Un registro de 8000 años del paleoclima del noroeste de Yucatan, Mexico. Revista de la Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan 15:52-65.
18. Brown, Linda, and Payson Sheets 2000 Distinguishing Domestic from Ceremonial Structures in Southern Mesoamerica: Suggestions from Ceren, El Salvador. Mayab 13:11-22.
19. Calunga-García Marín, Patricia 2003 The Domestication of Henequen (Agave fourcroydes Lem.). In The Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface, edited by Arturo Gómez-Pompa, Michael F. Allen, Scott L. Fedick, and Juan J. Jiménez-Osornio, pp. 439-446. Food Products Press, New York.
20. Curtis, Jason H., David A. Hodell, and Mark Brenner. 1996 Climate Variability on the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) during the Past 3500 Years, and Implications for Maya Cultural Evolution. Quaternary Research 46:37-47.
21. Dahlin, Bruce H., Daniel Bair, Timothy Beach, Matthew Moriarty, and Richard E. Terry 2010 The Dirt on Food: Ancient Feasts and Markets among the Lowland Maya. In Pre-Columbian Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture, and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica, edited by John E. Staller and Michael B. Carrasco, pp. 191-232. Springer, New York.
22. Dahlin, Bruce H., Christopher T. Jensen, Richard E. Terry, David R.Wright, and Timothy Beach 2007 In Search of an Ancient Maya Market. Latin American Antiquity 18:363-385.
23. Dunning, Nicholas P. 1993 Ancient Maya Anthrosols: Soil Phosphate Testing and Land Use. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pedo-Archaeology, Vol. 93-03, edited by J.E. Foss, M.E. Timpson, and M.W. Morris, pp. 203-211. University of Tennessee Special Publication, Knoxville.
24. Dunning, Nicholas P., and Timothy Beach 2004 Noxious or Nurturing Nature? Maya Civilization in Environmental Context. In Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology: Perspectives at the Millennium, edited by Charles W. Golden and Greg Borgstede, pp. 125-141. Routledge, New York.
25. Fernández, Fabián G., Richard E. Terry, Takeshi Inomata, and Marcus Eberl 2002 An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Chemical Residues in the Floors and Soil of Q'eqchi' Maya Houses at Las Pozas, Guatemala. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 17:487-519.
26. Folan, William J. 1991 Sacbes of the Northern Maya. In Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World, edited by Charles D. Trombold, pp. 222-229. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA.
27. Garraty, Christopher P. 2009 Evaluating the Distributional Approach to Inferring Marketplace Exchange: A Test Case from the Mexican Gulf Lowlands. Latin American Antiquity 20:157-174.
28. Hansen, Richard D. 1998 Continuity and Disjunction: The Pre-Classic Antecedents of Classic Maya Architecture. In Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture, edited by Stephen D. Houston, pp. 49-122. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC.
29. Harrison, Peter D. 2006 Maya Agriculture. In Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest, edited by Nikolai Grube, pp. 70-79. Kónemann, Kóhn.
30. Hirth, Kenneth G. 1998 The Distributional Approach: A NewWay to Identify Marketplace Exchange in the Archaeological Record. Current Anthropology 39: 451-476.
31. Hutson, Scott R., Travis W. Stanton, Aline Magnoni, Richard E. Terry, and Jason Craner 2007 Beyond the Buildings: Formation Processes of Ancient Maya Houselots and Methods for the Study of Non-Architectural Space. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 26:442-473.
32. Hutson, Scott R., and Richard E. Terry 2006 Recovering Social and Cultural Dynamics from Plaster Floors: Chemical Analyses at Ancient Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science 33:391-404.
33. Inomata, Takeshi, Daniela Triadan, Erick Ponciano, Estela Pinto, Richard E. Terry, and Marcus Eberl 2002 Domestic and Political Lives of Classic Maya Elites: The Excavation of Rapidly Abandoned Structures at Aguateca, Guatemala. Latin American Antiquity 13:305-330.
34. Jones, Christopher 1996 Excavations in the East Plaza of Tikal. In Tikal Report, Vol. 2. Tikal Report 16. The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
35. Lentz, David L., Marilyn P. Beaudry-Corbett, Maria L. Reyna de Aguilar, and Lawrence Kaplan 1996 Foodstuffs, Forests, Fields, and Shelter: A Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of Vessel Contents from the Ceren Site, El Salvador. Latin American Antiquity 7:247-262. Lindsay, Willard L. (editor) 1979 Chemical Equilibria in Soils.
36. Wiley Interscience, New York. Lindsay, Willard L., and W. A. Norvell 1978 Development of a DTPA Test for Zinc, Iron, Manganese, and Copper. Soil Science Society of America Journal 42:421-428.
37. Magnoni, Aline, Scott R. Hutson, and Travis W. Stanton 2008 Landscape Transformations and Changing Perceptions at Chunchucmil, Yucatan. In Ruins of the Past: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands, edited by Travis W. Stanton and Aline Magnoni, pp. 193-222. University of Colorado Press, Boulder.
38. Manzanilla, Linda, and Luis Barba 1990 The Study of Activities in Classic Households: Two Case Studies from Coba and Teotihuacan. Ancient Mesoamerica 1:41-49.
39. Medina Castillo, Edgar 2003 Los Juegos de Pelota de la región noroeste de Yucatan. In Proyecto Costa Maya: Reporte interino, Temporada 2002: Reconocimiento arqueológico de la esquina noroeste de la peninsula de Yucatan, edited by Fernando Robles Castellanos and Anthony P. Andrews, pp. 62-87. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Centro INAH Yucatan, Mérida.
40. El juego de pelota del Preclásico Medio en el noroeste de Yucatan, México. Licensiatura thesis, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatan, Mérida.
41. Middleton, William D., and T. Douglas Price 1996 Identification of Activity Areas by Multi-element Characterization of Sediments from Modern and Archaeological House Floors Using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectroscopy. Journal of Archaeological Science 23:673-687.
42. Middleton, William D., Luis Barba, Alessandra Pecci, James H. Burton, Agustín Ortiz, Laura Salvini, Roberto Rodriguez Suárez 2010 The Study of Archaeological Floors: Methodological Proposal for the Analysis of Anthropogenic Residues by Spot Tests, ICP-OES, and GC-MS. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 17:183-208
43. Parnell, J. Jacob, Richard E. Terry, and Charles Golden 2001 The Use of In-Field Phosphate Testing for the Rapid Identification of Middens at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 16:855-873.
44. Parnell, J. Jacob, Richard E. Terry, and Zachary Nelson 2002a Soil Chemical Analysis Applied as an Interpretive Tool for Ancient Human Activities at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. Journal of Archaeological Science 29:379-404.
45. Parnell, J. Jacob, Richard E. Terry, and Payson D. Sheets 2002b Soil Chemical Analysis of Ancient Activities in Cerén, El Salvador: A Case Study of a Rapidly Abandoned Site. Latin American Antiquity 13:331-342.
46. Peniche May, Nancy 2010 The Architecture of Power and Sociopolitical Complexity in Northwestern Yucatan during the Preclassic Period. Unpublished Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego. Quezada, Sergio 2001 Breve historia de Yucatan. El Colegio de México, Mexico City.
47. Redfield, Robert, and Alfonso Villa Rojas 1934 Chan Kom: A Maya Village. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 448, Washington, DC. Robles Castellanos, Fernando, and Anthony P. Andrews (editors) 2003 Proyecto Costa Maya: Reporte interino, Temporada 2002: Reconocimiento arqueológico de la esquina noroeste de la peninsula de Yucatan. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Centro INAH Yucatan, Mérida.
48. Sanchez, Charles A. 2007 Phosphorus. In Handbook of Plant Nutrition, edited by Allen V. Barker and David J. Pilbeam, pp. 51-90. CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL.
49. Schiffer, Michael B. 1987 Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. Shaw, Justine 2008 White Roads of the Yucatan: Changing Social Landscapes of the Yucatec Maya. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
50. Sheets, Payson 2000 Provisioning the Ceren Household: The Vertical Economy, Village Economy, and Household Economy in the Southeastern Maya Periphery. Ancient Mesoamerica 11:217-230.
51. Stuart, George E. 1979 Map of the ruins of Dzibilchaltun, Yucatan, Mexico. Middle American Reasearch Institute 47. Tulane University, New Orleans.
52. Sweetwood, Ryan V., Richard E. Terry, Timothy Beach, Bruce H. Dahlin, and David Hixson 2009 The Maya Footprint: Soil Resources of Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico. Soil Science Society of America Journal 73: 1209-1220.
53. Terry, Richard E., Fabián G. Fernández, J. Jacob Parnell, and Takeshi Inomata 2004 The Story in the Floors: Chemical Signatures of Ancient and Modern Maya Activities at Aguateca, Guatemala. Journal of Archaeological Science 31:1237-1250.
54. Terry, Richard E., Perry J. Hardin, Stephen D. Houston, Mark W. Jackson, Sheldon D. Nelson, Jared Carr, and J. Jacob Parnell 2000 Quantitative Phosphorus Measurement: A Field Test Procedure for Archaeological Site Analysis at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 15:151-166.
55. Thompson, J. Eric S. 1970 Maya History and Religion. University ofOklahoma Press,Norman. Tourtellot, Gair 1988 Excavations at Seibal: Peripheral Survey and Excavation: Settlement and Community Patterns. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum, Vol. 16. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
56. Turner, B. L., Peter Klepeis, and Laura C. Schneider 2003 Three Millennia in the Southern Yucatan Peninsula: Implications for Occupancy, Use, and Carrying Capacity. In The Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface, edited by Arturo Gómez-Pompa, Michael F. Allen, Scott L. Fedick, and Juan J. Jiménez-Osornio, pp. 361-387. Food Products Press, New York.
57. Uriarte Torres, Alejandro J. 2011 Estrategias políticas y organización espacial durante el formative en Ciudad Caucel, Yucatan. Unpublished Master's thesis, Centro de estudios arqueológicos, Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico
58. Villa, A. 1934 Survey of the Cobá-Yaxuná Highway. Yearbook 32. 89 vols. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC.
59. Wells, E. Christian 2004 Investigating Activity Patterning in Prehispanic Plazas: Acid-Extraction ICP/AES Analysis of Anthrosols at Classic Period El Coyote, Northwest Honduras. Archaeometry 46:67-84.
60. Wells, E. Christian., Claire Novotny, and James R. Hawken 2007 Quantitative Modeling of Soil Chemical Data from Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectroscopy Reveals Evidence for Cooking and Eating in Ancient Mesoamerican Plazas. In Archaeological Chemistry: Analytical Techniques and Archaeological Interpretation, edited by Michael D. Glascock, Robert J. Speakman, and Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, pp. 210-230. ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 968. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC.
61. Wells, E. Christian, Richard E. Terry, J. Jacob Parnell, Perry J. Hardin, Mark W. Jackson, and Stephen D. Houston 2000 Chemical Analyses of Ancient Anthrosols in Residential Areas at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. Journal of Archaeological Science 27: 449-462.
62. Wurtzburg, S.J. 1991 Sayil: Investigations of Urbanism and Economic Organization at an Ancient Maya City. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI.