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9 - Concentrating Power in the Terminal Classic beyond Copán (CE 800–1000)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Patricia A. Urban
Affiliation:
Kenyon College, Ohio
Edward M. Schortman
Affiliation:
Kenyon College, Ohio
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This chapter continues through the early eleventh century our account of the political histories related in Chapter 8. In contrast to events chronicled for the Copán-centered network at this time, what we see in other parts of Honduras and El Salvador is the emergence of large capitals that dominated their respective domains. These processes are most evident in Honduras’s Lower Ulúa, Lower Cacaulapa, and Comayagua valleys where the regional capitals of Cerro Palenque, El Coyote, Tenampua, and Las Vegas were established. Whereas these developments had Indigenous roots, Pipiles, Nahua-speaking immigrants from Mexico, now founded Cihuatán, a large town located in El Salvador’s Cerrón Grande basin. How power relations within the realms governed from these capitals were structured varied considerably. Similarly, the roles of things, whether locally fashioned (such as copper at El Coyote) or imported (such as Plumbate and Fine Orange ceramics and Pachuca obsidian), in these political processes also differed.

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Ancient Southeast Mesoamerica
Political Economies without the State
, pp. 204 - 233
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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