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Late Postclassic Maya ceramics from Mensabak: (a) stamp representing Mirador Mountain (upside down); (b) small bowl; (c) colander fragments; (d-e) Matillas Fine Orange trade wares. (Figure: Rubén Nuñez, courtesy of Mensabak Project.)
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A small rural stopover along overland Maya and Aztec trade and travel routes was identified in surveys and excavations at adjacent settlements and shrines at Mensabak, Chiapas, Mexico. This collection of Late Postclassic to Spanish conquest-era ( c. ad 1350–1650) Maya sites are similar in function to rural Old World and Andean caravan stopovers, su...
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... and pilgrims. Both sites have large canoe ports where travellers docked their canoes, unloaded their goods and sought food, shelter and social interaction. Diagnostic Late Postclassic ceramic types are found at these sites, including Matillas Fine Orange wares from the Chontal Maya Gulf Coast, in addition to small footed bowls and colanders (Fig. 5). Maya lineages and their allies migrated to Mensabak specifically because of the culturally significant pilgrimage shrines located there (Palka in press). Mirador Mountain (also El Mirador), an impressive, unusual mountain with a sheer, red-stained cliff rising out of the lake, dominates the Mensabak landscape (Fig. 6). Maya travellers ...
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