Blogs Posts on "Cochuah"

Caste War fortifications at Ichmul by Archaeological Haecceities on Nov 5, 2009The Cochuah region has not been a peaceful area. At Yo’okop we have evidence of several fortifications that may even date to separate events (such as the Terminal Classic abandonment and the later Postclassic reoccupation and abandonment of the sit...

Presenting Ichmul from above by Archaeological Haecceities on Oct 4, 2009In an earlier post I presented Ichmul from the ground level. Here is a cloudy image from Google Earth where some of the locations are marked. This is how Ichmul appears from a mile above the ground. How to get to Ichmul? The site can be reached from...

Presenting Sacalaca from above by Archaeological Haecceities on Oct 3, 2009In an earlier post I presented Sacalaca from the ground level. Here is an image from Google Earth where some of the locations are marked. This is how Sacalaca appears from a mile above the ground. Note that the CRAS camp consists of two buildings loc...

Carved stairway raisers at Yo’okop by Archaeological Haecceities on Oct 1, 2009Five carved blocks have been found in Group A at Yo’okop. The carved stones are likely from the same building due to their similar carving depths, glyphic compounds and cartouche formats (Wren, et al. in press). It is believed, based upon a local i...

The exciting lives and fates of sascaberas by Archaeological Haecceities on Aug 31, 2009During last year’s fieldwork in the ejido of Tabasco one of the workers took me to the sites of Candelaria and Rancho Benito Juarez (RBJ). Before we came to RBJ he told me that the site has plenty of “cuevas” (caves in Spanish). When he later s...

World Archaeology article by Archaeological Haecceities on Aug 31, 2009My article The making of a home: assembling houses at Nohcacab, Mexico, has now been published in World Archaeology (The Archaeology of Buildings), Volume 41, Issue 3, 2009, pp. 430-444. Here is the abstract: DeLanda’s assemblage theory makes i...

Albarradas – more interesting than you think by Archaeological Haecceities on Aug 6, 2009One of the most common “architectural” features found during surveys in the northern Maya lowlands are the albarradas. They are particularly common features near inhabited areas. Albarradas are low free-standing walls that divide or enclose space...

Ballcourts in the Cochuah region by Archaeological Haecceities on Aug 2, 2009Before last year’s field season only one ballcourt was known in the Cochuah region. It is located in Group B at Yo’okop in the ejido of Saban. The other major site of the region, Ichmul, lacks a known ballcourt. However, Ichmul has substantial am...

Chicxulub – the geology of a multi-ring basin by Archaeological Haecceities on Jul 20, 2009An older post, Chicxulub – slayer of dinosaurs and slayer of Maya?, was the first of three posts on the importance of the Chicxulub fracture zone. This zone is crucial to my research on changes in cave use, settlement strategies, and climate in the...

What matters is water: Fluids and solids in the Cochuah region, Mexico by Archaeological Haecceities on Jul 17, 2009This is my preliminary abstract for the 2nd Nordic Network for Amerindian Studies conference “Getting Back to Matter”. The neo-materialist ontology, outlined by the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Manuel DeLanda, is one of fluidity, compl...