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Central-Place Analyses in the la Entrada Region, Honduras: Implications for Understanding the Classic Maya Political and Economic Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Takeshi Inomata  and
Kazuo Aoyama
Takeshi Inomata
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520
Kazuo Aoyama
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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Analyses of archaeological data from the La Entrada region in northwestern Honduras demonstrate that central-place theory applies to the regional settlement system during the Late Classic period. The configuration of the regional central-place system appears to have been oriented to the local exchange of subsistence goods and to the minimization of energy expenditure in their movement. The distribution patterns of obsidian artifacts vary significantly among the hypothetical sustaining areas of centers, corroborating the reconstruction of a central-place system. This also suggests that political factors affected the circulation of certain materials and that basic economic spatial units in Classic Maya society were relatively small.

Los análisis de datos arqueológicos de la región de La Entrada, departamentos de Copán y Santa Bárbara, Honduras, demuestran que la teoría de las localidades centrales se aplica al sistema regional de asentamientos durante el periodo Clásico Tardío. El Proyecto Arqueológico La Entrada llevó a cabo el reconocimiento completo de un área de 150 km2, el levantamiento y mapeo de casi todos los sitios con estructuras visibles, y excavaciones de sondeo en 37 sitios, lo cual presenta una base de datos adecuada para dichos análisis. La configuración del sistema de lugares centrales sugiere la tendencia a reducir el gasto de energía invertida en el movimiento de gente y el transporte de material. Se asume que los alimentos formaban una parte importante de las finanzas de las entidades políticas mayas. Puesto que los mayas no tenían animales de carga ni vehículos con ruedas, es probable que la ineficiencia del transporte de materiales voluminosos y pesados regulaba la distribución de los centros. Es importante notar que un sistema de lugares centrales, el cual es orientado al intercambio local, se presentó en la frontera entre diferentes áreas culturales. Esto enfatiza la importancia del intercambio local en la sociedad maya durante el periodo Clásico. Además, los patrones de distribuciones de artefactos de obsidiana son distintos entre los teritorios hipotéticos de los centros, lo cual indica que factores políticos afectaban las circulaciones de ciertos materiales y que las unidades espaciales básicas de la economía maya fueron relativamente pequeñas.

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 291 - 312
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