caa a22 4500 388057904 CHVBK 20180307125112.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0956536100001905 doi S0956536100001905 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0956536100001905 Smyth Michael P. American Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 33rd and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA Before the Florescence [Elektronische Daten] Chronological reconstructions at Chac II, Yucatan, Mexico [Michael P. Smyth] The period preceding the Terminal Classic florescence in the Puuc region of Yucatan, Mexico has not received adequate research attention. Recent comprehensive site survey and excavation at Chac II (Chac) are exploring Puuc origins and have begun to redress the lack of chronological understanding regarding the region by independently linking architectural styles to ceramic sequences via a program of absolute dating. Results to date suggest that Chac was a significant Early Classic center (a.d. 300-600) that also experienced a major Late Classic (a.d. 600-800) occupation. Multiple lines of chronological evidence, including buildings with a mix of early architectural styles and associated pre-Cehpech and Cehpech ceramics (a.d. 800-1000) within sealed architectural and stratigraphic contexts, suggest a period of architectural transition and the antecedents of Cehpech ceramics dating to the sixth century. These new chronological data and associated evidence for foreign contacts perhaps reaching to central Mexico argue for the assignment of a Middle Classic period (a.d. 500-700) to the region, with broad evolutionary implications for Puuc origins and pan-Mesoamerican contacts. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Ancient Mesoamerica Cambridge University Press 9/1(1998), 137-150 0956-5361 9:1<137 1998 9 ATM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536100001905 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536100001905 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Smyth Michael P. American Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 33rd and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ancient Mesoamerica Cambridge University Press 9/1(1998), 137-150 0956-5361 9:1<137 1998 9 ATM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge