An Interactive Guide to Ancient Cerén: Before the Volcano Erupted

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On an August evening around AD 600, residents of the Ceren village within the Zapotitan Valley of what’s now El Salvador were sitting down to their nightly meal when ground tremors and loud steam emissions warned of an impending volcanic eruption. The villagers fled, leaving their the city to be buried under five meters of volcanic ash and forgotten until a bulldozer uncovered evidence of the extraordinarily preserved the city in 1976. Probably the most intact Pre-columbian village in Latin The us, Ceren has been known as the “Pompeii of the New World”. This book and its accompanying CD-ROM and website online (ceren.colorado.edu) present complete and detailed reports of the excavations carried out at Ceren since 1978 by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, ethnographers, volcanologists, geophysicists, botanists, conservators, and others. The book is divided into sections that discuss the physical environment and resources, household structures and economy, special buildings and their uses, artifact analysis, and topical and theoretical issues. As the authors present and analyse Ceren’s houses and associated goods, workshops, civic and spiritual buildings, kitchen gardens, planted fields, and garbage dumps, a new and much clearer picture of how commoners lived right through the Maya Classic Period emerges. These findings constitute landmark contributions to the anthropology and archaeology of Central The us. Payson Sheets is Professor of Anthropology on the University of Colorado.

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