A Discussion of Early Monumentality at Pacbitun, Belize
A Discussion of Early Monumentality at Pacbitun, Belize
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伯利兹 Pacbitun 早期纪念性的讨论
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2019
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Sheldon Skaggs
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Terry G. Powis;George J. Micheletti;Jon Spenard;Sheldon Skaggs
Powis和他的同事们在Pacbitun收集了关于中前古典时期的重要信息，这些数据涉及到更广泛的建筑纪念性主题。在第13章中，他们介绍了两个关于Pacbitun广场A建筑的具体案例研究。在第一个案例研究中，作者的讨论始于广场B的低住宅/车间平台，这是一个以海洋贝壳工艺品生产而闻名的地区，以及广场B以东的自然高架区域，在那里，El克马多的大型仪式结构建在后来成为广场A的最高点上。与以前在帕克比屯建造的任何结构不同，克马多的存在意味着有能力组织一支重要的劳动力队伍，也许标志着制度化不平等的开始。一个明显的终结事件，以切角、大规模焚烧和随后的埋葬的形式，标志着前古典晚期开始时帕克比顿社会的组织和意识形态的重要转变。简而言之，本章的案例研究都表明，纪念性不仅仅指建筑规模。建造克马多和E集团所需的劳动力、能源和资源将大大超过建造当代国内结构所需的。
Powis and his colleagues have gathered significant information about the Middle Preclassic period at Pacbitun, data which speak to the broader subject of architectural monumentality. In Chapter 13, they present two specific case studies pertaining to Pacbitun’s Plaza A architecture. In the first case study, the authors’ discussion begins with the low residential/workshop platforms of Plaza B, an area well-recognized for its marine shell bead craft production, and the naturally elevated area to the east of Plaza B, where the large ceremonial structure of El Quemado was built on the highest point that would later become Plaza A. Unlike any structure previously built at Pacbitun, the presence of El Quemado implies an ability to organize a significant labor force and perhaps marks the beginning of institutionalized inequality. An apparent termination event in the form of chopped corners, extensive burning, and subsequent burial marks an important transition in the organization and ideology of Pacbitun’s society at the onset of the Late Preclassic period. Succinctly, the case studies in this chapter both demonstrate that monumentality refers to more than architectural scale. The labor force, energy, and resources needed to construct El Quemado and the E Group would have greatly surpassed what was needed to build contemporary domestic structures.