Event Details
Saturday, May 21, 2016
AIA Lecture: Ritual in Late Classic Maya Lowlands
Time: 12:00 pm til 1:00 pm
Location: UNF Archaeology Lab
Description: Dr. Gabrielle Vail from New College of Florida will present "Painted Capstone and Codical Texts from the Northern Maya Lowlands: Agricultural vs. Elite Rituals in Late Classic to Postclassic Yucatán" at the May AIA meeting.
The northern Maya lowlands provide a rich corpus of painted texts associated with the interior and exterior walls of buildings. In a number of cases these texts and the accompanying pictorial components were used to commemorate important rituals. Information from ethnohistoric sources and hieroglyphic and iconographic sources provides important clues for determining context and audience for these texts. This presentation examines the underlying meaning of capstone and codical texts and explores what the different media, time periods, and hieroglyphic captions tell us about elite versus agricultural rituals, and what they reveal about a group’s social memory. The lecture is free and open to the public. Complimentary refreshments will be served afterwards in the Archaeological Lab. On Saturdays, parking is free and the faculty/staff/vendor spaces are open to everyone. For more information, contact Melva Price at (904)241-9411 or at atijaxsoc@gmail.co
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