By building analogy between contemporary Maya practices of commerce and healing today, colonial medical and commercial sources, and the archaeological record, this study explores a previously archaeologically undocumented practice among the Classic Maya and contextualizes ancient medical practice within the social and economic space of an ancient Maya marketplace. Beginning with the identification of dental extractions in this area on the basis of the pathological and fractured state of the human teeth, this thesis investigates the intersection between medicine and curing and commerce and exchange. This area of the site has been hypothesized to have served market functions. A large, fragmentary, and commingled assemblage of human and animal bone worked and unworked bone, and pathological human teeth was excavated from the S-Sector of Piedras Negras, Guatemala between 20.
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