The role of craft producers in past economies provides information that helps contextualize the role of economies in broader sociopolitical systems. Through this examination of lowland Maya lithic producers in the Late to Terminal Classic period (a.d. 600–890), this article explores the centrality of economic activities in integrating craft producers into larger regional political communities and simultaneously buffering them against regional political conflicts. Through a study of lithic extraction and production at Callar Creek Quarry, Belize, this article examines the relevance of crafting activities in the minimization of economic uncertainty. These data indicate that lithic reduction served to diversify economic activities for lithic producers, and thus minimized economic risk. The use of economic activity to minimize risk provides evidence for the continuity of small-scale householders. This illustrates the independence of economic activities from political frameworks, and suggests that economic diversification serves as a critical stabilizing force for rural Classic-period Maya residents.

手工业生产者在过去经济体中的作用提供了有助于将经济体在更广泛的社会政治系统中的作用背景化的信息。通过对晚期至晚期经典时期低地玛雅石器生产者的研究（广告600-890），本文探讨了经济活动在将手工艺生产者整合到更大的区域政治社区中并同时缓冲他们免受区域政治冲突的中心作用。通过对伯利兹 Callar Creek Quarry 的岩屑开采和生产的研究，本文探讨了手工艺活动在最小化经济不确定性方面的相关性。这些数据表明，减少岩屑有助于使岩屑生产者的经济活动多样化，从而将经济风险降至最低。利用经济活动将风险降至最低为小规模家庭的连续性提供了证据。这说明经济活动独立于政治框架，