Mayan Dental Modification

Dive into this exploration of Mayan culture and body conceptualization through the discussion of dental modification.

Sources: 
Tiesler, V., Lozada, M. C., & Scherer, A. K. (2018). Head Shaping and Tooth Modification Among the Classic Maya of the Usumacinta River Kingdoms. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Geller, Pamela L. 2006 Altering Identities: Body Modification and the Pre-Columbian Maya. In Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains, Oxford: Oxbow Books. 

Houston, Stephen D., David Stuart, and Karl Taube, 2006, The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya. University of Texas Press, Austin.

Serafin, Masson, M. A., Peraza Lope, C., Kennett, D. J., & George, R. J. (2022). Social Identity and Dental Modification at the Postclassic Maya Urban Centre of Mayapan. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 32(1), 117–135. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774321000342

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Maya-people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFKy7DJsCY&ab_channel=NationalGeographic

Chapters

• 1:18 Part 1
• 5:40 Part 2
• 8:31 Part 3
• 16:34 meaning of IK
• 17:25 site 2