Presented for the Jacksonville Society
Archaeological Institute of America on April 26, 2014

In 1910, Harvard’s Peabody Museum Expedition investigated, a small buried structure named Building B of Group II. It would be the first structure to be scientifically studied in the Maya lowlands. This study would produce many surprises. It provided the first proof that the Maya built new structures on top of existing structures. It also provided the first burial found inside a structure and not just one burial but six burials containing 22 skeletons. These burials contained the first polychrome ceramics found. The large and varied selection of ceramics produced the first ceramic sequence. Yet, one hundred years later the same structure provided an additional early burial, the largest sample of Pre-Mamon ceramics in the Lowlands and a pair of large witz masks dating from 400 B.C. This lecture reviews what we have learned from this small structure located at a small and remote Maya site.

Jacksonville Society
Archaeological Institute of America

Lectures are held in building 51 (Social Sciences) on the University of North Florida campus in Jacksonville.

http://www.aiajax.org/upcoming-lectures.html