Fig 1.
Map of the Principal Group at Copan highlighting location where Altar Q, Motmot burial, and Ruler 12 burial were excavated (modified from Fash 1991:Fig 8 under a CC BY license, with permission from Fash, original copyright 1991) and inset map of Mesoamerica highlighting location of Copan and Teotihuacan.
Table 1.
Summary of zooarchaeological finds from this study.
Fig 2.
Plan view drawing of deer mandibles and crocodile teeth collar from Burial VIII-36, Plaza A of group 9N-8.
Crocodile teeth are in blue. Drawing by N. Sugiyama.
Fig 3.
Results of stable isotope analysis by animal type: a) δ13Ccollagen and δ15Ncollagen values, b) δ13Ccarbonate and δ18Ocarbonate values, and c) simple carbon model following Kellner and Schoeninger [64].
Table 2.
Number of elements sampled from each context for isotope analysis.
Table 3.
Descriptive statistics of the isotope values that passed diagenesis testing by animal type.