Timothy Pugh
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My current archaeological research focuses upon urbanization
at the site of Nixtun-Ch’ich’ in Petén, Guatemala. My previous work at the site
encountered an urban grid that appears to have been constructed between 400 and
200 BCE. It may be the earliest such grid in the Americas. Urban grids were
previously unknown among the ancient Maya and the timing of this grid’s
construction correlates with the emergence of “states” in the region. Since
this urban form does not occur in the Maya region before the construction of
Nixtun-Ch’ich’, I believe that it was an innovation by Maya elites to organize
and rule the larger population. Hence, it appears to have been an
administrative innovation association with an early Maya state centered at
Nixtun-Ch’ich’. My current work at the
site is seeking to more precisely define the form and chronology of the grid
through intensive excavations. I am also searching for the settlement form(s)
that preceded the grid’s construction. Like the implementation of the grid upon
Manhattan in the 19th century, that of Nixtun-Ch’ich’ involved
extensive demolition. |
Research
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Books
Cecil, Leslie G and Timothy W. Pugh (editors). 2009. Maya Worldviews at Conquest. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Additional Publications
Pugh, Timothy W., Prudence Rice, Evelyn Chan
Nieto, and Don Rice
in press A
Chak'an Itza Center at Nixtun-Ch'ich', Petén, Guatemala. Accepted for
publication by Journal of Field
Archaeology.
Pugh, Timothy W., Katherine Miller, Carolyn
Freiwald, and Prudence Rice
in press Technologies of Domination at Mission San Bernabé, Petén, Guatemala. Accepted for publication by Ancient Mesoamerica.
2012 Contact and Missionization at Tayasal, Petén, Guatemala. Journal of Field Archaeology 37(1):3-19.
Pugh,
Timothy W. and José Rómulo Sánchez
2012 Arqueologia
Historica en la Zona de los Lagos del Petén. In XXV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueologías
en Guatemala, 2011, edited by Bárbara Arroyo, Lorena Paiz, and
Héctor Mejía. Instituto de Antropología
e Historia, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, and la Asociación Tikal, Guatemala
City.
Chan Nieto, Evelyn, Erdozain A.
López, Sulma Cortez Avila, Timothy Pugh, and José Rómulo Sánchez
2012 El Preclásico Tardío en la Zona de los Lagos
Petén, Guatemala. In XXV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueologías
en Guatemala, 2011, edited by Bárbara Arroyo, Lorena Paiz, and
Héctor Mejía. Instituto de Antropología
e Historia, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, and the Asociación Tikal, Guatemala
City.
Pugh,
Timothy W.
2009 Contagion and Alterity: Kowoj Maya
Appropriations of European Objects. American Anthropologist 111(3): 373-386.
2009 Maya Sacred Landscapes at Conquest. In Maya
Worldviews at Conquest, edited by Leslie Cecil and Timothy W. Pugh, pp.
317-334. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
2009 Preface.
In Maya Worldviews at Conquest,
edited by Leslie Cecil and Timothy W. Pugh, pp. xvii-xviii. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
2009 Residential and Domestic Contexts at
Zacpetén. In The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Politics in Late Postclassic Petén,
Guatemala, edited by Prudence M. Rice and Don S. Rice, pp. 173-191. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
2009 The Kowoj and the Lacandon: Migrations and Identities. In The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Politics in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala, edited by Prudence M. Rice and Don S. Rice, pp. 368-384. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Pugh, Timothy W. and Prudence M.
Rice
2009 Zacpetén and the Kowoj: Field Methods and
Chronologies. In The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Politics in Late Postclassic Petén,
Guatemala, edited by Prudence M. Rice and Don S. Rice, pp. 85-122. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
2009 Kowoj Ritual Performance and Societal
Representation at Zacpetén. In The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Politics
in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala, edited by Prudence M. Rice and Don S.
Rice, pp. 141-172. University Press of
Colorado, Boulder.
Pugh,
Timothy W., Prudence M. Rice, and Leslie G. Cecil
2009 Zacpetén Structure 719: the Last Noble
Residence. In The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Politics in Late Postclassic Petén,
Guatemala, edited by Prudence M. Rice and Don S. Rice, pp. 192-216. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Rice,
Prudence M., Don S. Rice, Timothy W. Pugh, and Rómulo Sánchez Polo
2009 Defensive Architecture and the Context of
Warfare at Zacpetén. In The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Politics
in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala,
edited by Prudence M. Rice and
Don S.
Rice, pp. 123-140. University Press of
Colorado, Boulder.