This study considers the role played by Teotihuacan in the emergence of the office of the Classic Maya ajawtaak, or ‘lords’. I argue that the synthesis of this office at the site of Tikal was influenced by the building of Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent between about 180 and 230 ce. Prior to and in concert with this building's construction, Teotihuacanos orchestrated the sacrifice of an estimated 200 or more individuals, some number of whom resided beyond the Basin of Mexico before burial. Osteological traits consistent with origins in the Maya region are present among these sacrifices. The Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent features mirror and obsidian icons, which later grew to prominence in the self-presentations of the ajawtaak. I note that around the time of this monument's construction, Tikal's obsidian corpus changed in ways that paralleled similar, earlier changes that had occurred to obsidian procurement strategies at Teotihuacan. I conclude that from about 200 ce, some Classic ajawtaak observed the religion that cohered with the building of Teotihuacan's Temple of the Feathered Serpent. The ajawtaak occupied a unique positionality in Early Classic Mesoamerica that was neither essentially Teotihuacan nor essentially Maya, but a dynamic syncretism of the two ethnicities.

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玛雅 Ajawtaak 和 Teotihuacan 霸权，约公元 150-600 年


本研究考虑了特奥蒂瓦坎在古典玛雅 ajawtaak 或“领主”职位出现中所发挥的作用。我认为，蒂卡尔遗址上这个办公室的综合受到了大约公元 180 年至 230 年间特奥蒂瓦坎羽蛇金字塔建造的影响。在这座建筑的建造之前和配合，特奥蒂瓦卡诺斯精心策划了大约 200 或更多的人的祭祀，其中一些人在埋葬前居住在墨西哥盆地以外的地方。这些祭祀中存在与玛雅地区起源一致的骨学特征。羽蛇金字塔以镜子和黑曜石图标为特色，后来在 ajawtaak 的自我展示中变得突出。我注意到，在这座纪念碑建造前后，蒂卡尔的黑曜石主体发生了变化，与特奥蒂瓦坎黑曜石采购策略发生的早期类似变化相似。我得出的结论是，从公元 200 年左右开始，一些经典的 ajawtaak 观察到了与特奥蒂瓦坎的羽蛇神庙的建造相一致的宗教。ajawtaak 在早期古典中美洲占据了独特的地位，它本质上既不是特奥蒂瓦坎人，也不是玛雅人，而是两个种族的动态融合。