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Internet Archaeology is pleased to announce the publication of
Strategic Location and Territorial Integrity: The Role of Subsidiary
Sites in the Classic Maya Kingdoms of the Upper Usumacinta Region by Armando
Anaya Hernández
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue19/anaya_index.html
The Upper Usumacinta region was the scene of an intense interaction between
the different kingdoms of the Classic Maya Period. This interaction took the
form of political and marriage alliances as well as warfare and is well
attested in the inscribed monuments of the region, especially towards the
Late Classic Period (c. AD 600-900). Through this interaction the Maya
rulers would not only assert their claim to power but also ensure the
boundaries of their kingdoms, with an eye to accruing a vaster domain.
This article presents a model aimed at estimating the territorial extent of
the kingdoms of the Upper Usumacinta region, focusing on the importance that
subsidiary centres located at strategic locations across the landscape had
for the maintenance of the territorial integrity of the kingdoms of Pomoná
and Piedras Negras. A probability model was designed to identify the areas
of high potential where the presence of a subsidiary site may occur. The
model was tested in the field and a site located that, due to its monumental
architecture, could be characterised as a subsidiary site of high strategic
and political relevance.
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