caa a22 4500 388057890 CHVBK 20180307125112.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0956536100001917 doi S0956536100001917 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0956536100001917 Anderson Patricia K. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Yula, Yucatan, Mexico [Elektronische Daten] Terminal Classic Maya ceramic chronology for the Chichen Itza area [Patricia K. Anderson] A major impediment to understanding the Terminal Classic to Early Postclassic transition in northern Yucatan has been the lack of a reliable ceramic chronology defined from stratigraphic contexts at the site of Chichen Itza. The temporal relationship of Cehpech and Soluta ceramics is central to resolving the issue of the correct chronological placement of Chichen Itza. The results of stratigraphic excavations at Yula, a small site 5 km south of Chichen Itza, provide the strongest evidence to date that Cehpech and Sotuta ceramics were contemporaneous. Statistical analysis of pottery composition by stratum confirms a positive correlation between Sotuta and Cehpech, which are clearly differentiated from earlier pottery. Rather than following a linear sequence in which Cehpech precedes Sotuta, as suggested by R. E. Smith and other early researchers, these two slatewares represent coeval regional variation. Thus, the major occupation of Chichen Itza dates not to the Early Postclassic, but to the Terminal Classic. The results of this research contribute toward the redefinition of the Terminal Classic and Early Postclassic periods in the northern Maya lowlands. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Ancient Mesoamerica Cambridge University Press 9/1(1998), 151-165 0956-5361 9:1<151 1998 9 ATM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536100001917 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536100001917 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Anderson Patricia K. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ancient Mesoamerica Cambridge University Press 9/1(1998), 151-165 0956-5361 9:1<151 1998 9 ATM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge