Blogs Posts on "Mayanist Studies"

Emergent subjectivity and defacement of Maya art by Archaeological Haecceities on Nov 17, 2009In case you wonder why I am not posting much now, it is because I am trying to come up with an interesting idea for my next project and the workshop next week. I can tell you right now that it will have to do with defacement of portraits in Maya art...

2012: The 2012circus for dummies by Archaeological Haecceities on Nov 12, 2009Tomorrow Emmerich’s ultimate disaster movie has worldwide premiere. Most reviews have already given it thumbs down and based on what I have seen of the movie so far I am not likely to give it a positive remark. For those not acquainted with what t...

New inscriptions at Chichen Itza by Archaeological Haecceities on Nov 8, 2009Earlier this week INAH announced that excavations at the Casa Colorada (Red House) complex at Chichen Itza have unearthed a new hieroglyphic inscription that refers to the year AD 869, the likely date of dedication of the complex. The inscriptions si...

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...

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...

El Pilar – Nohol Pilar’s ballcourt and E-group by Archaeological Haecceities on Oct 27, 2009Before my fieldwork in the Cochuah region I spent four seasons in the Belize Valley. I first spent one season (1997) at Baking Pot. During a weekend I took a taxi to El Pilar, the largest site in the Upper Belize Valley. I liked the site and I later...

Visitor statistics by Archaeological Haecceities on Oct 27, 2009Since I moved my blog to WordPress seven months ago I have created 180 posts and had over 100,000 hits. I believe it now is the largest “Mayanist blog” in terms of the number of hits. The overall statistics from the start is 503 visitors a day (t...

Same same but different Maya novel by Archaeological Haecceities on Oct 26, 2009In two earlier posts I have mentioned my unpublished novel The Heart of Time (which have to be reworked before I ever send it to a publisher). Today I got an email from the author (David L. Smith) of a newly published novel called Jaguar Rising. Her...

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...

2012: How to spot a prophet’s Maya hoax: false dilemmas and straw men by Archaeological Haecceities on Oct 18, 2009The easiest way to detect a 2012 prophet’s logical fallacy is to look for false dilemmas and straw men in their arguments. A false dilemma is when one characterizes the opposite position (that would be science or the “orthodox” view as they oft...