超越房屋面积：古代玛雅低地财富不平等的另类估计

IF 0.9 3区历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Ancient Mesoamerica Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI:10.1017/s0956536123000044

Jessica Munson, Jonathan Scholnick, Andrés G. Mejía Ramón, Lorena Paiz Aragon

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摘要

房屋面积是衡量家庭财富的比较尺度，考古学家通过它可以追踪一系列定居社会中不平等现象的全球趋势。鉴于玛雅考古学在聚落模式研究方面的悠久历史，以及最近应用激光雷达绘制古玛雅城市周边大面积地图的成果，这种方法尤其值得期待。然而，估算居住规模并非易事。本文探讨了基于几何估算（体积和面积）的潜在混淆因素，并将传统的基于房屋面积的财富衡量方法与其他房屋面积估算方法和生活质量指标进行了比较。Altar de Sacrificios 考古项目最近从上乌苏马辛塔汇流区收集到的聚落模式数据与之前公布的发掘数据相结合，为评估房屋面积以外的其他财富衡量标准提供了一个强大的数据集。

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Beyond house size: Alternative estimates of wealth inequality in the ancient Maya Lowlands

House size provides a comparative measure of household wealth that enables archaeologists to track global trends in inequality across a range of sedentary societies. Such approaches hold particular promise for Maya archaeology given its long history of settlement pattern research and recent applications of LiDAR to map large areas surrounding ancient Maya cities. Estimating dwelling size, however, is not a trivial exercise. This article addresses potential confounds associated with geometric-based estimates (volume and area) and compares traditional house size-based measures of wealth with other estimates of house size and quality of life indicators. Settlement pattern data from the Upper Usumacinta Confluence Zone, recently collected by the Proyecto Arqueológico Altar de Sacrificios, combined with previously published excavation data provide a robust dataset to evaluate alternative measures of wealth beyond house size.

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Ancient Mesoamerica ARCHAEOLOGY-

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2.90

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Ancient Mesoamerica is the international forum for the method, theory, substance and interpretation of Mesoamerican archaeology, art history and ethnohistory. The journal publishes papers chiefly concerned with the Pre-Columbian archaeology of the Mesoamerican region, but also features articles from other disciplines including ethnohistory, historical archaeology and ethnoarchaeology. Topics covered include the origins of agriculture, the economic base of city states and empires, political organisation from the Formative through the Early Colonial periods, the development and function of early writing, and the use of iconography to reconstruct ancient religious beliefs and practices.