What research question(s) is/are the speaker trying to address ?
How can we examine the content of a tumb ? How to describe, analyze and understand archeaological discoveries ?
What can we deduce about the relations between powerful cities of Classic Maya time ?
What rules did supervise burials ?
What can we say about afterlife beliefs and practices ?
Following Jared Diamond's description of the rise and fall of an Empire, did the Maya civilization really suddenly collapse ?
What is the nature of the data that she uses to address the question ?
Dr Navarro-Farr uses a great variety of data: stelae, vessels, ceramics, jewels, basically all she can find during excavations. What do you perceive to be the challenges she faces in conducting her research ?
Dr Navarro-Farr encountered the main problem of archeaological researches in general, that is to say the tendency to search for trace of what is written on stelae or walls, even if the written system should
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Queen K'abel's tomb looks exactly like another Queen tomb, found more recently: the tomb of Lady Ikoon, who was also married to the ruler of Waka' in the early 6th century.
There were two individuals from the same kaan family, who worked at anchoring Waka and Calakmul in long term association.
So, Queen K'abel's tomb is not exceptional in terms of status or wealth, but it's impossible to generalize on how Queens were treated in the Mayan society, even less on how the women were considered at the time. This is just two specific