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Late Postclassic Ritual at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize: Understanding the Archaeology of a Maya Capital City

The site of Santa Rita Corozal was the focus of major excavation at two points during the twentieth century, first by Thomas Gann and subsequently by the Corozal Postclassic Project. These investigations demonstrated the importance of this site during the Late Postclassic Period and confirmed that Santa Rita Corozal was one of the few Late Postclassic capital cities in the Maya lowlands that have been excavated. Arguably the ancient Maya city of Chetumal, the combined excavations at Santa Rita Corozal provide substantial information on site organization, socio-political structure, and the ritual organization of a late Maya community. These data have impact on Postclassic ceramic history, on interpretations of intraand inter-regional exchange and economies, and on calendric ritual. These investigations also can be used to refine and refute interpretations based solely on ethnohistoric data. This paper provides a synthesis of Postclassic Period archaeological data at Santa Rita Corozal relative to ritual caching practices and katun celebrations.