Deposits linked to abandonment have been widely recorded across the Maya lowlands, associated with the final activities occurring in ceremonial areas of Classic Maya centers. Various models have been applied to explain the activities that lie behind the formation of these contexts, including those linked to rapid abandonment (e.g., warfare) and others focused on more protracted events (termination rituals, and/or pilgrimages). Here, we assess Bayesian models for three chronological scenarios of varying tempo to explain the formation of peri-abandonment deposits at Baking Pot, Belize. Using stratigraphic information from these deposits, hieroglyphic dates recovered on artifacts, and direct dates on human skeletal remains and faunal remains from distinct layers in three deposits in Group B at Baking Pot, we identify multiple depositional events that spanned the eighth to ninth centuries AD. These results suggest that the processes associated with the breakdown of institutionalized rulership and its command of labor to construct and maintain ceremonial spaces were protracted at Baking Pot, with evidence for the final depositional activity dated to the mid-to-late ninth century. This interval of deposition was temporally distinct from the earlier deposition(s) in the eighth century. Together, these data offer a detailed view of the end of the Classic period at Baking Pot, in which the ceremonial spaces of the site slowly fell into disuse over a period of more than a century.

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构建高精度 AMS 14C 贝叶斯模型以在 BAKING POT 形成废弃沉积物，伯利兹

与遗弃有关的沉积物已在玛雅低地广泛记录，与发生在经典玛雅中心仪式区的最终活动有关。已经应用了各种模型来解释这些背景形成背后的活动，包括与快速放弃相关的活动（例如，战争）和其他关注更持久事件（终止仪式和/或朝圣）的活动。在这里，我们针对三种不同节奏的时间顺序情景评估贝叶斯模型，以解释伯利兹烤锅周围废弃沉积物的形成。利用这些矿床的地层信息、在人工制品上发现的象形文字日期，以及来自烤锅 B 组三个矿床不同层的人类骨骼遗骸和动物遗骸的直接日期，我们确定了跨越公元八至九世纪的多个沉积事件。这些结果表明，与制度化统治的崩溃及其对建造和维护仪式空间的劳动指挥相关的过程在烤锅中被拖延了，有证据表明最终的沉积活动可以追溯到 9 世纪中后期。这一沉积间隔在时间上与八世纪的早期沉积不同。总之，这些数据提供了烤锅经典时期结束的详细视图，在这个时期，该遗址的仪式空间在一个多世纪的时间里逐渐被废弃。这些结果表明，与制度化统治的崩溃及其对建造和维护仪式空间的劳动指挥相关的过程在烤锅中被拖延了，有证据表明最终的沉积活动可以追溯到 9 世纪中后期。这一沉积间隔在时间上与八世纪的早期沉积不同。总之，这些数据提供了烤锅经典时期结束的详细视图，在这个时期，该遗址的仪式空间在一个多世纪的时间里逐渐被废弃。这些结果表明，与制度化统治的崩溃及其对建造和维护仪式空间的劳动指挥相关的过程在烤锅中被拖延了，有证据表明最终的沉积活动可以追溯到 9 世纪中后期。这一沉积间隔在时间上与八世纪的早期沉积不同。总之，这些数据提供了烤锅经典时期结束的详细视图，在这个时期，该遗址的仪式空间在一个多世纪的时间里逐渐被废弃。