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Before Kukulkán BEFORE KUKULKÁN VERA TIESLER, ANDREA CUCINA, TRAVIS W. STANTON, and DAVID A. FREIDEL FOREWORD BY TRACI ARDREN BEFORE KUKULKÁN • Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxuná THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON The University of Arizona Press www.uapress.arizona.edu © 2017 by The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserved. Published 2017 Printed in the United States of America 22 21 20 19 18 17 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-3264-3 (cloth) Cover design by Leigh McDonald Cover photo: Polychrome female figurine depicting the Moon Goddess, Burial 24, Yaxuná, Yucatán, Mexico. Her teeth are filed and her face colored with black, white, and red lines. Photo by Vania Carillo Bosch. Publication of this book is made possible in part by a subvention from the University of California, Riverside. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Tiesler, Vera, author. | Cucina, Andrea, 1966– author. | Stanton, Travis W., 1971– author. | Freidel, David A., author. | Ardren, Traci, writer of foreword. Title: Before Kukulkán : bioarchaeology of Maya life, death, and identity at classic period Yaxuná / Vera Tiesler, Andrea Cucina, Travis W. Stanton, and David A. Freidel ; foreword by Traci Ardren. Description: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017012669 | ISBN 9780816532643 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Mayas—Antiquities. | Mayas—Yucatán Peninsula—Social life and customs. | Excavations (Archaeology)—Mexico—Yaxuná Site. Classification: LCC F1435.1.Y89 T57 2017 | DDC 305.897/427—dc23 LC record available at https:// lccn.loc.gov/2017012669 This paper meets the requirements for ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). To Michael D. Coe (*1929) and Arturo Romano Pacheco (1921–2015), both of whom have been admirable inspirations for bridging the fields in pre-Columbian research. CONTENTS Foreword by Traci Ardren ix Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The Bioarchaeology of Yaxuná 3 Part I. Living at Yaxuná 1 Yaxuná in Context 19 2 Individual Movement, Migration, and Population Dynamics in the Northern Maya Lowlands 44 3 Growing Up in Yaxuná: Demography, Lifestyle, and Health in a Classic Period Capital 71 4 Foodways, Diet, and Nutrition 89 5 Physical Embodiment and Social Identities at Yaxuná 124 Part II. Yaxuná’s Dead 6 Passing, Mourning, and Procuring Permanence 149 7 Eternal Performance: The Royal Tombs 184 8 Feeding the Gods in Yaxuná: Sacrifice and Human Caches 218 9 The Cycling of an Era: Chichén Itzá and the Decline of Yaxuná 235 Notes 255 References 259 Index 301 FOREWORD Traci Ardren AXUNÁ IS AN extraordinary place. This may sound like hyperbole or simple exagger- Yation, but the volume you hold in your hands will convince you that the ancient Maya city of Yaxuná is a place like no other. All archaeological sites are venues for contemplating the arbitrary boundary between past and present. When does the past become past? How is the present ever separated from what came before? In thinking and learning about Yaxuná, familiar terms such as “ancient” or “memory” take on profoundly new depths of meaning, enlivened by the realities of a place that Maya people have called home for more than three millennia. What is ancient about Yaxuná, its early settlement and precocious adoption of royal insignia, carries forward for thousands of years and informs the present-day life of people who live and visit this site. There is no way to keep what is ancient about Yaxuná in the past or in any way divisible from the present (and future). What is memory to someone who lives on a landscape where humans have eaten the same food and climbed the same pyramids for millennia? How are memories of one’s own research sifted from the memories of earlier researchers, their stories, and theories? Boundaries are blurry in a place where scholars have been compelled to ask questions and seek answers for over a hundred years. Perhaps the boundaries of past and present are blurry at Yaxuná because by its nature, it is situated in both the past and present. It is neither a relic of the past, long forgotten and ready to be rediscovered, nor is it a fully formed creation of the present, free to speak in any language or on any topic. It is a place rooted in Maya culture and history, a place that breathes Maya culture and history into life every day, and a place that will be at the forefront of what the world comes to know about Maya culture and history well past the twenty-first century. It defies boundaries and reminds us how our modern notions of time and meaning are so very arbitrary and ephemeral. The capacity of this settlement to defy definitions is due in part to its location at a crossroads—a place where cultures meet, where people crossed paths in the past as they do today, where ideas were bartered and change was always in the air. X • FOREWORD BY TRACI ARDREN Researchers have long searched for an obvious explanation for the location of this settle- ment and its subsequent longevity. There are few observable clues—no river crossing or huge cenote, no rare and strategically important natural resource that would have provided eco- nomic security. Rather, like many ancient Maya cities, the founders of Yaxuná and those who continued to renew and reinvent the city for the next three thousand years followed an intan- gible call to mediate social interactions. Almost equidistant from the eastern and western coasts of the peninsula, halfway from the northern coast to the central lowlands, the history of Yaxuná was, is, and always will be dictated by its ability to draw together the people and ideas from other regions, to use the strength of the crossroads location to reinvent itself when the fortunes of one tradition failed or a new cultural movement arose. We see this demon- strated in the earliest occupation of the site, when key markers of Maya cultural identity from the southern lowlands, such as the astronomical temple known as an E-Group, are built for the first time in the northern lowlands. Later, as described in detail in this volume, the lead- ers of Yaxuná drew on royal insignia of the Petén region, as well as local elite traditions to generate a statement about the Early Classic royal dynasty of Yaxuná in the provisioning of the royal tomb known as Burial 23. During the Late Classic period, Puuc architectural styles jockeyed with the political maneuvers of an ambitious queen from Cobá, who built the lon- gest Maya sacbé from her city to Yaxuná, in one of the clearest materializations of Yaxuná’s role as a cultural crossroads. Even following conquest by Chichén Itzá, people from the west returned to Yaxuná to build Late Postclassic shrines as memory of the past was reinvented for thirteenth- and fourteenth-century political needs. During the Colonial period Yaxuná was both far from the European influences of Mérida and Valladolid, and was brought within Colonial-era agricultural enterprises. The Caste War (1847–1901) saw refugees take shelter at Yaxuná as they fled east, away from the violence centered in the western part of the penin- sula. Today Yaxuná remains at the crossroads—the modern village and adjacent archaeologi- cal site are just south of the highway that bisects the peninsula and equidistant from the state capital Mérida and the touristic capital of Cancún. Young people from the village are drawn out of Yaxunáh to work in both Mérida and Cancún and bring the economic resources and cultural influences of those two very different cities back to their home in the center of the peninsula. Scholarly investigation of the archaeological site of Yaxuná began almost one hundred years ago. While intermittent, it is reasonable to argue that Yaxuná is one of the best- documented and best-published Classic Maya sites. With the addition of this volume, such an assertion takes on even greater strength. The authors have written an exciting and com- prehensive study of the cultural aspects of death, and life, at ancient Yaxuná. Bioarchaeolog- ical studies allow us to know the unwritten histories of ancient people, especially the people who were not the subject of Classic hieroglyphic inscriptions or art. In this volume you will learn a great deal about the royalty of Yaxuná, especially the foreign-born Sun King who died around AD 400 and was buried in a tomb full of entheogenic paraphernalia, as well as the royal woman who carried a Moon Goddess figurine when she was ritually sacrificed just over one century later. Death touches us all, and the bioarchaeological analyses presented here FOREWORD BY TRACI ARDREN • XI speak as powerfully about children, commoners, and the forgotten as they do about the elite. This forces us to think about power and inequality in novel ways, freed from the usual stric- tures of a tiny royalty and an immense supporting population. The discussions in this book allow us to see the many places where difference and congruence existed in the past, often far from the palaces and tombs of kings and queens. Thus this volume is different from most books about the ancient Maya. It is the result of a unique and powerful collaboration between four accomplished specialists in ancient Maya culture, each bringing to the table their own detailed bioarchaeological, iconographic, archaeological, and ultimately anthropological investigations in order to jointly tell the very human story of a long-lived and complex Maya kingdom. Archaeology is always best when it is a collaborative science, but this type of publication is a rare effort and likely unique in the northern Maya lowlands.
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