Abstract:
The material culture of the Maya is rich with images of the animals that existed in their environment. In Peccaries in Ancient Maya Economy, Ideology, and Iconography, the potential value of these pig-like creatures in both mundane concerns of subsistence and the supernatural world is considered. Two fragmentary, incised peccary crania from tombs at Copán, Honduras focus the investigation.
The material culture of the Maya is rich with images of the animals that existed in their environment. In Peccaries in Ancient Maya Economy, Ideology, and Iconography, the potential value of these pig-like creatures in both mundane concerns of subsistence and the supernatural world is considered. Two fragmentary, incised peccary crania from tombs at Copán, Honduras focus the investigation.
Image of peccaries on Copán skull
(Fash 1991)
(Fash 1991)