Mortuary rituals at the mission church of Yacman, a sixteenth-century rural Maya community, reflect locally specific variants of cultural hybridity relevant to the comparative study of the archaeology of agency and social change in early Colonial settings of Mesoamerica. Burial practices in this church reveal early adoption of Christian norms, followed by a return to more traditional Pre-Columbian family mausoleum-like interments. At the same time, these Maya mission residents, like many of their contemporaries in the region, co-opted the Christian church as a new community nucleus and as a resting place for ancestors. These findings, with additional evidence for hybridity from domestic contexts, reveal strategic expressions of Colonial Maya identity at Yacman, a modest and remote rural settlement that exercised options to experience social change on its own terms, far from the supervisory gaze of Spanish friars.

Yacman的宣教教堂的房仪式是16世纪的农村玛雅人社区，反映了当地特定的文化混杂变体，与中美洲早期殖民地环境下的代理考古和社会变革考古学的比较研究有关。在这座教堂中的埋葬做法表明人们早日采用了基督教准则，然后又回到了更传统的哥伦布前时期类似陵墓的家庭内部。同时，这些玛雅传教士的居民，与他们在该地区的许多当代人一样，选择了基督教教堂作为新的社区核心和祖先的安息之所。这些发现以及家庭环境中的杂合性的其他证据，揭示了Yacman殖民地玛雅身份的战略表达，