The Classic Maya polities of Baking Pot and Lower Dover developed along two dramatically different trajectories. At Baking Pot, the capital and associated apical elite regime grew concomitantly with surrounding populations over a thousand-year period. The smaller polity of Lower Dover, in contrast, formed when a Late Classic political center was established by an emergent apical elite regime amidst several long-established intermediate elite-headed districts. The different trajectories through which these polities formed should have clear implications for residential size variability. We employ the Gini coefficient to measure variability in household volume to compare patterns of residential size differentiation between the two polities. The Gini coefficients, while similar, suggest greater differentiation in residential size at Baking Pot than at Lower Dover, likely related to the centralized control of labor by the ruling elite at Baking Pot. While the Gini coefficient is synonymous with measuring wealth inequalities, we suggest that in the Classic period Belize River Valley, residential size was more reflective of labor control.

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伯利兹河谷烤锅和下多佛尔的居住分化和劳动力控制模式

烤锅和下多佛的经典玛雅政体沿着两条截然不同的轨迹发展。在烤锅，首都和相关的顶端精英政权在一千多年的时间里与周围的人口一起成长。相比之下，下多佛尔的较小政体是在一个新兴的顶端精英政权在几个历史悠久的中间精英领导的地区中建立一个晚期古典政治中心时形成的。这些政体形成的不同轨迹应该对住宅规模的变化产生明显的影响。我们使用基尼系数来衡量家庭数量的变异性，以比较两个政体之间的住宅规模差异模式。基尼系数虽然相似，但表明烤锅的住宅规模比下多佛尔有更大的差异，这可能与烤锅的统治精英对劳动力的集中控制有关。虽然基尼系数是衡量财富不平等的同义词，但我们认为，在古典时期的伯利兹河谷，住宅规模更能反映劳动力控制。