Joya de Cerén

**Joya de Cerén** (*Perhiasan Cerén* dalam bahasa Spanyol) adalah sebuah situs arkeologi di Departemen La Libertad, El Salvador, yang menampilkan desa pertanian Maya pra-Kolumbus. Situs Maya kuno Joya de Cerén terletak di Lembah Zapotitán, yang berjarak 36,000 meter dari barat laut San Salvador, El Salvador. Situs tersebut sering kali disebut sebagai "Pompeii dari Benua Amerika", yang membandingkannya dengan reruntuhan Romawi terkenal tersebut.

## Catatan

## Referensi
* Conyers, Lawrence B. (1996) "Archaeological evidence for dating the Loma Caldera eruption, Ceren, El Salvador", in *Geoarchaeology* Vol. 11, Iss. 5, pp.&nbsp;377–391.
* "Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site." United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. UNESCO, n.d. Web. 15 Apr 2012..
* Lentz, David L.; Beaudry-Corbett, Marilyn; de Aguilar, Maria Luisa Reyna; Kaplan, Lawrence (1996) "Foodstuffs, Forests, Fields, and Shelter: A Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of Vessel Contents from the Ceren Site, El Salvador" in *Latin American Antiquity* Vol. 7, No. 3 (Sep., 1996), pp.&nbsp;247–262.
* Castellanos, Carolina, and Descamps, Francoise 2004 Joya de Cerén, El Salvador: site interpretation in participatory management planning. Blackwell Publishing. 56(3), 94-103.
* Brown, Linda, and Payson Sheets 2000 Distinguishing Domestic from Ceremonial Structures in Southern Mesoamerica: suggestions from Cerén, El Salvador. Mayab 13, 11-21.
* Farahani, Alan, et al. 2017 Identifying ‘plantscapes’ at the Classic Maya village of Joya de Cerén, El Salvador. Antiquity Publications, Ltd. 980-997.
* Miller, D.C. 1989 Stratigraphy of Volcanic Deposits at El Cerén. In P.D. Sheets and B.R. McKee, Eds., 1989 Archaeological Investigations at the Cerén Site, El Salvador: A Preliminary Report. Boulder: Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado. 8-19.
* Parnell, J., Terry, R., and Sheets, P. 2002 Soil Chemical Analysis of Ancient Activities in Cerén, El Salvador: A Case Study of a Rapidly Abandoned Site. Latin American Antiquity, 13(3), 331-342.
* Sharer, Robert, and Loa Traxler 2005 The Ancient Maya, 6th edition. Stanford University Press, Redwood City. 1-984.
* Sheets, Payson 1992 The Cerén Site: A Prehistoric Village Buried by Volcanic Ash in Central America. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
* Sheets, Payson 2000 PROVISIONING THE CERÉN HOUSEHOLD: The Vertical Economy, Village Economy, and Household Economy in the Southeastern Maya Periphery. Ancient Mesoamerica, 11(2), 217-230.
* Sheets, Payson 2013 https://antharky.ucalgary.ca/caadb/sites/antharky.ucalgary.ca.caadb/files/_Sheets_2013_Dwelling_in_the_Ancestral_Joya_de_Cer__n_Village_0.pdf Revealing Ancestral Central America: Dwelling on the Ancestral Joya de Cerén Village. The Smithsonian Latino Center and the National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institution. 22-31.
* CU team discovers Mayan crop system. University of Colorado at Boulder, June 16, 2009

## Daftar pustaka
* *Before the Volcano Erupted: The Ancient Cerén Village in Central America*. Texas University Press, 2002. 

## Pranala luar

* Very comprehensive Ceren website, from University of Colorado at Boulder. 
* UNESCO entry on Joya de Ceren
* Photos and short history (Spanish)