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The Life and Death of Homes at Noh K'uh: The Cosmological Ceremonies of Late Preclassic Corporate Maya Households
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The Late Preclassic (400 b.c.–a.d. 200) site of Noh K'uh in Chiapas, Mexico, is home to extended residential groups that aggregated around a small ceremonial complex at the bottom of the Mensäbäk Basin. Evidence collected from domestic contexts indicates that the Late Preclassic households of this site were organized under corporate political systems that emphasized collective identity and cosmological renewal. This article reveals how the people of Noh K'uh integrated cosmological beliefs and practices within the construction of their dwelling spaces, particularly through using cache deposits and participating in other architectural renewal ceremonies. Residents of Noh K'uh may have engaged in these practices to create “semipublic” gathering spaces for administrative and ceremonial activities at the level of the household.
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El sitio del preclásico tardío (400 a.C.–200 d.C.) de Noh K'uh en Chiapas, México, estaba compuesto de grupos residenciales extensos que se agruparon alrededor de un complejo ceremonial en el fondo de la cuenca Mensäbäk. Este artículo revela cómo la gente de Noh K'uh integró creencias y prácticas cosmológicas dentro de la construcción de sus espacios domésticas, particularmente mediante el uso de depósitos de caché y la participación en otras ceremonias de renovación arquitectónica. Depósitos ceremoniales incluyen ofrendas de cuentas, ollas enteras y hachas de piedra verde y que se encuentran dentro de contextos domésticos revelan un conjunto complejo de rituales que transformaron el significado y la importancia de los espacios domésticos. La integración de estos objetos debajo los pisos de casas transformaron estas estructuras en símbolos cosmológicos que pueden haber servido imbpara imbuir la casa con una fuerza vital. El énfasis doméstico en la vida, la renovación y la cosmología sugiere que esta sociedad estaba organizada debajo un modelo económico político corporativo.
Los residentes de Noh K'uh pueden haberse involucrado en estas prácticas para crear espacios de reunión semipúblicos para actividades administrativas y ceremoniales a nivel del hogar. Los contextos domésticos indica que las casas del Preclásico Tardío de Noh K'uh revelaron un estilo de organización corporativa en el que los hogares construyeron sus propios espacios de reunión semipúblicos que eran ricos en simbolismo cosmológico. Estos espacios habrían servido para alejar algunas actividades administrativas y rituales afuera del núcleo ceremonial. El tamaño de los hogares y las actividades rituales que tuvieron lugar dentro de estos espacios grandes y abiertos indica que los hogares de Noh K'uh funcionaron como grupos corporativos individuales organizados a través de un linaje extendido. Por lo tanto, Noh K'uh parecía haber sido organizado como un colectivo de pequeñas comunidades domésticas.
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