In seeking continuities and disjuncture from the precedents of past authorities, the Mesoamerican emergent ruling class during the Formative period were active agents in directing changes to monumental space, suggesting that memory played a vital role in developing an early shared character of Maya lifeways (1000 b.c. to a.d. 250). The trend is most visible in the civic ceremonial complexes known as E Groups, which tend to show significant patterns of continuity (remembering) and disjuncture (forgetting). This article uses the northern lowland site of Yaxuná in Yucatan, Mexico, to demonstrate the use of early selective strategies to direct collective memory. While there are E Groups in the northern Maya lowlands, few Formative period examples are known, making Yaxuná a critical case study for comparative assessment with the southern lowlands. One implication of the Yaxuná data is that the broader pattern of Middle Formative E Groups resulted from sustained social, religious, political, and economic interaction between diverse peer groups across eastern Mesoamerica. With the emergence of institutionalized rulership in the Maya lowlands during the Late Formative, local authorities played a significant role in directing transformations of E Groups, selectively influencing their meanings and increasingly independent trajectories through continuity and disjuncture.

为了寻求过去权威先例的连续性和断裂，形成时期的中美洲新兴统治阶级积极推动改变纪念性空间，这表明记忆在发展玛雅生活方式的早期共享特征（公元前 1000 年）中发挥了重要作用做广告_250）。这种趋势在被称为 E 组的公民仪式复合体中最为明显，它们往往表现出明显的连续性（记忆）和分离（遗忘）模式。本文使用墨西哥尤卡坦半岛 Yaxuná 北部低地遗址，展示早期选择性策略如何引导集体记忆。虽然北部玛雅低地有 E 组，但已知的形成时期的例子很少，这使得 Yaxuná 成为与南部低地进行比较评估的关键案例研究。Yaxuná 数据的一个含义是，更广泛的中间形成 E 群体模式是中美洲东部不同同龄群体之间持续的社会、宗教、政治和经济互动的结果。随着晚期形成期玛雅低地制度化统治的出现，