School of Anthropological Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México.
Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2023 Oct 25;18(10):e0292022. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292022. eCollection 2023.
Residential mobility in Prehispanic Mesoamerica is of paramount importance in bioarchaeology to determine the "how, where and why" people established biological, political and economic networks. The goal of this paper is to assess the presence of non-local people on the East Coast of the Yucatan Peninsula during the Late Postclassic (AD 1200-1540), and how they might have been perceived by the local Maya people. We analyze the presence, origin and mortuary distribution of 50 individuals based on their dental and bone 87Sr/86Sr signatures in the "urban" assemblage constituted by the archaeological sites known as El Rey and San Miguelito on Isla Cancun. Both sites present a strontium ratio "plateau" between 0.7091 and 0.7092, which is considered the local signature. Seven individuals, ranging in age from 5 years old to adulthood, were detected as potentially non-local, and originating from a wide range of regions both near and distant to Isla Cancun. Funerary patterns, burial location, and dietary data do not indicate these people were treated differently from the rest of the population, at least at the moment of death. This suggests that these non-locals might not have been perceived as "foreigners" and that they had integrated into the local community. Such mobility and cultural integration could have motivated by multiple factors, including economic and trade connections, or kinship relationships.
在中美洲前西班牙时期，居住迁移在生物考古学中至关重要，有助于确定人们如何、在何处以及为何建立生物、政治和经济网络。本文的目的是评估在后古典时期（公元 1200 年至 1540 年）尤卡坦半岛东海岸是否存在非本地居民，以及当地玛雅人如何看待这些非本地居民。我们分析了 50 个人的存在、起源和埋葬分布，这些人是基于他们在考古遗址“城市”组合中的牙齿和骨骼 87Sr/86Sr 特征，这些遗址分别是埃尔雷伊和圣米格尔托岛上已知的考古遗址。这两个遗址的锶比值都在 0.7091 到 0.7092 之间，这被认为是当地的特征。有 7 个人，年龄从 5 岁到成年，被认为可能是非本地居民，他们的原籍地来自于与坎昆岛距离远近不同的多个地区。丧葬模式、埋葬地点和饮食数据表明，这些人与其他人口没有区别，至少在死亡时是如此。这表明这些非本地居民可能没有被视为“外国人”，并且已经融入了当地社区。这种流动性和文化融合可能是由多种因素驱动的，包括经济和贸易联系，或亲属关系。
