@article{258d7b937d2840b994c9f31fed2210ab,
title = "Isotopic proveniencing at Classic Copan and in the southern periphery of the Maya Area: A new perspective on multi-ethnic society",
abstract = "Strontium, oxygen, and carbon isotopes were measured in human tooth enamel from 66 burials in 9L-22 and 9L-23 residential groups at the Classic Maya site of Copan in western Honduras. These results are discussed in relation to earlier studies at Copan and baseline measurements from the surrounding region and the Maya area in general. Nearly 50% of the individuals are identified as non-local based on combinations of strontium, oxygen, and carbon isotope ratios. They came from a variety of places in the Maya area. This migratory pattern at the 9L-22 & 9L-23 residential complex from the Early to Late Classic (ca. 400–800 CE) is compared with 10J-45 sector from the mainly Early Classic occupation (ca. 400–650 CE) and an interesting change is noted. The social privileges observed among the Early Classic immigrants from the north Maya Lowlands were apparently revoked in the Late Classic. New immigrants, probably from the “non-Maya” regions of Western/Central Honduras, appear to have gained those social privileges. High-status Honduran individuals in the urban core suggests a strategy by the Copan dynasty in the Late Classic that incorporated the emerging “non-Maya” elites from Western/Central Honduras.",
keywords = "Borderland, Carbon, Maya, Mobility, Oxygen, Prehispanic mesoamerica, Strontium, “Non-Maya”",
author = "Shintaro Suzuki and Seiichi Nakamura and Price, {T. Douglas}",
note = "Funding Information: We first thank the Instituto Hondure{\~n}o de Antropolog{\'i}a e Historia (IHAH) and its General Director, Abogado H{\'e}ctor Portillo, for their kind permission and support during the investigations at Copan. Histomorphological analyses were conducted at the Laboratory of Histomorphology of Universidad Aut{\'o}noma de Yucat{\'a}n, M{\'e}xico, as a part of S. Suzuki{\textquoteright}s dissertation. These analyses were funded by CONACYT Grants H-49982 , H-37743 of Dr. Vera Tiesler from the same university. The long preparation process of the article was supported by Universidad Nacional Aut{\'o}noma de M{\'e}xico, where S. Suzuki did his dissertation between 2011–2015, by Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, and also by Okayama University, Japan. S. Suzuki thanks deeply Dr. Tiesler and Dr. Barrientos for their kind assistance and is grateful to the Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (LEADER), MEXT, for their institutional support. S. Suzuki received also JSPS KAKENHI, Grant Number 17KK0023, during the preparation of the manuscript. Thanks also to Paul Fullagar and the staff of the Isotope Geochemistry Lab at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and David Dettman at the University of Arizona for their careful measurement of isotope ratios. Much gratitude is also expressed to the U.S. National Science Foundation for their support of the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry for many years. We also thank sincerely two anonymous reviewers and the editor for their detailed review and helpful comments. Funding Information: We first thank the Instituto Hondure?o de Antropolog?a e Historia (IHAH) and its General Director, Abogado H?ctor Portillo, for their kind permission and support during the investigations at Copan. Histomorphological analyses were conducted at the Laboratory of Histomorphology of Universidad Aut?noma de Yucat?n, M?xico, as a part of S. Suzuki's dissertation. These analyses were funded by CONACYT Grants H-49982, H-37743 of Dr. Vera Tiesler from the same university. The long preparation process of the article was supported by Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico, where S. Suzuki did his dissertation between 2011?2015, by Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, and also by Okayama University, Japan. S. Suzuki thanks deeply Dr. Tiesler and Dr. Barrientos for their kind assistance and is grateful to the Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (LEADER), MEXT, for their institutional support. S. Suzuki received also JSPS KAKENHI, Grant Number 17KK0023, during the preparation of the manuscript. Thanks also to Paul Fullagar and the staff of the Isotope Geochemistry Lab at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and David Dettman at the University of Arizona for their careful measurement of isotope ratios. Much gratitude is also expressed to the U.S. National Science Foundation for their support of the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry for many years. We also thank sincerely two anonymous reviewers and the editor for their detailed review and helpful comments. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Elsevier Inc.",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101228",
language = "English",
volume = "60",
journal = "Journal of Anthropological Archaeology",
issn = "0278-4165",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
}