Blogs Posts on "Ichmul"

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...

Sacbeob 4: The Blister Black Christ of Ichmul by Archaeological Haecceities on Sep 27, 2009In April I wrote three posts on sacbeob (causeways). These posts lined up with another series of posts on posthumanocentric/polyagentive archaeology where I used causeways to explain my idea of polyagency. Since my dissertation I have elaborated upon...

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...

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...

Involutions of materiality by Archaeological Haecceities on Jul 26, 2009I have not produced many blog posts in July. The future frequency will be the same: 2-3 days between my posts. There is a simple reason: I have too much to do right now. I will resubmit two articles (one for Norwegian Archaeological Review and one fo...