Blogs Posts on "El Mirador"

2012: How to spot a prophet’s Maya hoax – ethnocentrism and Annunaki by Archaeological Haecceities on Oct 28, 2009Not long after CNN posted the El Mirador videos on internet the site was caught up in the 2012circus. Just the fact that it appears to have been completely unheard of before this is just revealing how ignorant the 2012ers are. The site has been known...

Commoditization and singularization by Archaeological Haecceities on Oct 20, 2009Back in 1997 I finally finished my overworked BA-thesis in archaeology. It discussed Late Formative trade and its importance in the rise of stratified social formations in the Central Maya Lowlands. I particularly focused on the political relations b...

El Mirador is a brand! by Archaeological Haecceities on Oct 15, 2009Cornelius Holtorf has written a book called Archaeology is a Brand! To him, archaeology is usually presented as something positive in media. The archaeologist is seen as an adventurer, a detective, a discoverer of incredible things, and the caretaker...

2012: “Baktuniarism” – or why I changed my mind regarding cosmology by Archaeological Haecceities on Oct 11, 2009One might ask why I am so irritated by the 2012 circus? Is this “end date” not important to the past and present Maya? Well, it had some importance to the ancient Maya, but not more than other so-called period endings that they celebrated every 5...

The last stand at El Mirador? by Archaeological Haecceities on Sep 16, 2009As mentioned in an earlier post, the origin and development of the Kaan kingdom is of major interest in Mayanist studies. Excavations at Ichkabal attempts to prove that the original capital of the kingdom lay in the east, and not at Calakmul in the w...

Monumental constructions as potlatches by Archaeological Haecceities on Aug 26, 2009William Rathje is a Mayanist who became a garbologist. In the future I will post something on his interesting studies of contemporary garbage disposal and landfills. However, as a Mayanist he has had a great influence on the study of Maya political e...

Ichkabal – the latest search for the origin and continuity of the Kaan kingdom by Archaeological Haecceities on Jun 10, 2009Despite what I said in my last post, here is a new post. I could not help to write something about the news from Ichkabal, an enormous site in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, currently being investigated by INAH. It is located only ten km from the bet...