The Organization of Chipped-Stone Economies at Piedras Negras ...

not to say that production, even ritualized production, was always a conscious attempt to
win more symbolic and material capital, but that as ideologies and other forms of
knowledge became heterodoxic, knappers likely used whatever was at their disposal to
gain prestige. The act of chipped-stone production probably was not a normal royal
activity, because there is so little evidence of these activities in the royal art and writing
of the Classic Maya. Nonroyal craft oficios were nonetheless essential to the well-being
of the city and its population, which required a structured set of relations between the
ruling family and other households within the city.
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