Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns
Author | : Wendy Ashmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1322 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Wendy Ashmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1322 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Olivier de Montmollin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2004-01-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521548021 |
This innovative analysis of archaeological settlement patterns as a guide to ancient political structure focuses on the Maya of Southeastern Mexico. Working principally with data from the Classic Period in the Rosario Valley, Dr de Montmollin relates problem orientation and theory to themes with wide currency in political anthropolgy. For archaeologists interested in complex societies, the handling of the settlement evidence and the close attention paid to bridging arguments provide valuable guidance on analysing a multiscale settlement record when reconstructing political structure. For Mayanists, the characterization of settlement and political structure is unprecedented in its rigour and scope. The Archaeology of Political Structure thus blends the particular fascination of Maya archaeology with developments of more general interest in anthropological archaeology to make a substantial contribution to the practice and theory of settlement studies within complex societies.
Author | : T. Patrick Culbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Samuel V. Connell |
Publisher | : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2003-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1938770803 |
Settlement archaeology in the Maya area has focused much of its attention on the polar extremes of the settlement continuum. As a result of this urban/rural bias, a whole range of complex rural settlements remain under-explored. The chapters in this volume highlight the variable quality of these "middle level settlements".
Author | : S. H. Koenig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 17 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeremy A. Sabloff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This book is a series of essays that offers a framework for the study of lowland Maya settlement patterns, surveying the range of interpretive ideas about ancient Maya remains.--Publisher's description.
Author | : Damien B. Marken |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2015-11-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1457197243 |
"Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands investigates Maya political and social structure in the southern lowlands, assessing, comparing, and interpreting the wide variation in Classic period Maya polity and city composition, development, and integration. Traditionally, discussions of Classic Maya political organization have been dominated by the debate over whether Maya polities were centralized or decentralized. With new, largely unpublished data from several recent archaeological projects, this book examines the premises, strengths, and weaknesses of these two perspectives before moving beyond this long-standing debate and into different territory.The volume examines the articulations of the various social and spatial components of Maya polity—the relationships, strategies, and practices that bound households, communities, institutions, and dynasties into enduring (or short-lived) political entities. By emphasizing the internal negotiation of polity, the contributions provide an important foundation for a more holistic understanding of how political organization functioned in the Classic period."
Author | : Anabel Ford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Evon Zartman Vogt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Geoffrey E Braswell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2014-04-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317756088 |
The ancient Maya created one of the most studied and best-known civilizations of the Americas. Nevertheless, Maya civilization is often considered either within a vacuum, by sub-region and according to modern political borders, or with reference to the most important urban civilizations of central Mexico. Seldom if ever are the Maya and their Central American neighbors of El Salvador and Honduras considered together, despite the fact that they engaged in mutually beneficial trade, intermarried, and sometimes made war on each other. The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors seeks to fill this lacuna by presenting original research on the archaeology of the whole of the Maya area (from Yucatan to the Maya highlands of Guatemala), western Honduras, and El Salvador. With a focus on settlement pattern analyses, architectural studies, and ceramic analyses, this ground breaking book provides a broad view of this important relationship allowing readers to understand ancient perceptions about the natural and built environment, the role of power, the construction of historical narrative, trade and exchange, multiethnic interaction in pluralistic frontier zones, the origins of settled agricultural life, and the nature of systemic collapse.