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On an August evening around AD 600, residents of the CerÉn village in the Zapotitán Valley of what is now El Salvador were sitting down to their nightly meal when ground tremors and loud steam emissions warned of an impending volcanic eruption. The villagers fled, leaving their town to be buried under five meters of volcanic ash and forgotten until a bulldozer uncovered evidence of the extraordinarily preserved town in 1976. The most intact Precolumbian village in Latin America, CerÉn has been called the "Pompeii of the New World."
This book presents complete and detailed reports of the excavations carried out at CerÉn since 1978 by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, ethnographers, volcanologists, geophysicists, botanists, conservators, and others. The book is divided into sections that discuss the physical environment and resources, household structures and economy, special buildings and their uses, artifact analysis, and topical and theoretical issues.
As the authors present and analyze CerÉn's houses and their goods, workshops, civic and religious buildings, kitchen gardens, planted fields, and garbage dumps, a new and much clearer picture of how commoners lived during the Maya Classic Period emerges. These findings constitute landmark contributions to the anthropology and archaeology of Central America.
Contents
Preface (Payson Sheets)
1. Introduction (Payson Sheets, with an Appendix by Brian R. McKee)
Part I. Multidisciplinary Research
2. Volcanology, Stratigraphy, and Effects on Structures (C. Dan Miller)
3. Geophysical Exploration at CerÉn (Lawrence B. Conyers and Hartmut Spetzler)
4. CerÉn Plant Resources: Abundance and Diversity (David L. Lentz and Carlos R. RamÍrez-Sosa)
Part II. Household Archaeology
5. Ancient Home and Garden: The View from Household 1 at CerÉn (Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, Scott E. Simmons, and David B. Tucker)
6. Household 2 at CerÉn: The Remains of an Agrarian and Craft-Oriented Corporate Group (Brian R. McKee)
7. Structure 16: The Kitchen of Household 3 (Inga Calvin)
8. Structure 4: A Storehouse-Workshop for Household 4 (Andrea I. Gerstle and Payson Sheets)
Part III. Special Buildings
9. The Civic Complex (Andrea I. Gerstle)
10. Structure 9: A Precolumbian Sweat Bath at CerÉn (Brian R. McKee)
11. Structure 10: Feasting and Village Festivals (Linda A. Brown and Andrea I. Gerstle)
12. Divination at CerÉn: The Evidence from Structure 12 (Scott E. Simmons and Payson Sheets)
Part IV. Artifacts
13. Ceramics and Their Use at CerÉn (Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, with contributions by Ronald L. Bishop)
14. The Chipped Stone Artifacts of CerÉn (Payson Sheets)
15. Groundstone Artifacts in the CerÉn Village (Payson Sheets)
16. Household and Community Animal Use at CerÉn (Linda A. Brown)
17. Artifacts Made from Plant Materials (Harriet F. Beaubien and Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett)
Part V. Topics and Issues of CerÉn Research
18. The Conservation Program at CerÉn (Harriet F. Beaubien)
19. Household Production and Specialization at CerÉn (Payson Sheets and Scott E. Simmons)
20. Cultivating Biodiversity: Milpas, Gardens, and the Classic Period Landscape (Payson Sheets and Michelle Woodward)
21. Continuity and Change in the Contemporary Community of Joya de CerÉn (Carlos BenjamÍn Lara M. and Sarah B. Barber)
22. Summary and Conclusions (Payson Sheets)
Glossary
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