Research focusing on the emergence and collapse of ancient Maya polities is abundant, with many studies detailing these sociopolitical transformations from the perspective of apical elites at Classic period centers across the lowlands. It is, however, only relatively recently that studies have examined how the integrative strategies of commoner populations were both enabled and constrained by processes of sociopolitical integration and disintegration. This detailed settlement study reconstructs how the practices of a commoner community in the site core of Minanha, Belize, were central to the construction and reproduction of the social dynamics of this ancient Maya center, from its founding through to its abandonment. We explore how households adapted and reorganized in response to major sociopolitical transformations, emphasizing integrative and disintegrative processes associated with the rise and fall of Minanha’s Late Classic (AD 675–810) royal court. This diachronic perspective illustrates the historically contingent nature of household and community responses to the Classic Maya collapse. We utilize a conjunctive methodology that combines “bottom up” (household and community) and “top down” (royal court) data to provide a nuanced and holistic picture of processes of sociopolitical transformation in the Maya lowlands.

关于古代玛雅政体的出现和崩溃的研究非常丰富，许多研究从低地古典时期中心的顶端精英的角度详细描述了这些社会政治转变。然而，直到最近，研究才研究了普通民众的整合策略如何受到社会政治整合和解体过程的影响和限制。这项详细的定居研究重建了伯利兹米南哈遗址核心的一个平民社区的实践如何成为这个古老玛雅中心从建立到废弃的社会动态的构建和再现的核心。我们探讨家庭如何适应和重组以应对重大的社会政治变革，强调与米南哈晚期经典（公元 675-810 年）皇家宫廷兴衰相关的整合和解体过程。这种历时性的观点说明了家庭和社区对经典玛雅崩溃的反应在历史上是偶然的。我们利用一种结合方法，结合“自下而上”（家庭和社区）和“自上而下”（皇家法院）数据，提供玛雅低地社会政治转型过程的细致入微的整体画面。