Exchange, Craft Specialization, and Ancient Maya State Formation
| Author | : Kazuo Aoyama |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1272 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Copán Valley (Honduras) |
| ISBN | : |
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Ancient Maya State, Urbanism, Exchange, and Craft Specialization
| Author | : Kazuo Aoyama |
| Publisher | : Center for Comparative Arch |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9781877812545 |
An exhaustive analysis of political and economic change right through the sequence of Maya civilization, based on the direct evidence of chipped stone assemblages from a wide variety of contexts in two regions. The acquisition of raw materials, the production of tools, and the use of tools are all fully considered for what they can tell us about long-distance political and economic relations and local economic organization. An unexpected bonus of the study was information on the use of chipped stone in warfare. The full dataset is provided electronically. Complete text in English and Spanish.
Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology
| Author | : Charles Golden |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2004-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1135946078 |
This book presents the current state of Maya archaeology by focusing on the history of the field for the last 100 years, present day research, and forward looking prescription for the direction of the field.
The Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies
| Author | : Marilyn A. Masson |
| Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
| Total Pages | : 655 |
| Release | : 2020-08-25 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 081305740X |
A timely synthesis of the latest research and perspectives on ancient Maya economics, this volume illuminates the sophistication and intricacy of economic systems in the Preclassic, Classic, and Postclassic periods. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines move beyond paradigms of elite control and centralized exchange to focus on individual agency, highlighting production and exchange that took place at all levels of society. Case studies draw on new archaeological evidence from rural households and urban marketplaces to reconstruct the trade networks for tools, ceramics, obsidian, salt, and agricultural goods throughout the empire. They also describe the ways household production integrated with community, regional, and interregional markets. Redirecting the field of ancient Maya economic studies away from simplistic characterizations of the past by fully representing the range of current views on the subject, this volume delves deeply into multiple facets of a complex, interdependent material world. Contributors: Anthony P. Andrews | Chloé Andrieu | Beatriz Balcárcel | Adolfo Iván Batún | George Bey | Ronald L. Bishop | Geoffrey E. Braswell | Marcello Canuto | Bernadette Cap | Arlen F. Chase | Diane Z. Chase | Rubén Chuc Aguilar | Maia Dedrick | Pedro Delgado Kú, | Arthur A. Demarest | Keith Eppich | Bárbara Escamilla Ojeda | Scott L. Fedick | Luis Flores Cobá | Lynda Florey Folan | William J. Folan | David A. Freidel | Tomás Gallareta Negrón | Charles Golden | Stanley P. Guenter | Joel D. Gunn | Richard D. Hansen | Timothy S. Hare | Enrique Hernández | Rachel A. Horowitz | Scott R. Hutson | Takeshi Inomata | Eleanor M. King | Marilyn A. Masson | Patricia A. McAnany | Carlos Morales-Aguilar | Carlos Peraza Lope | Dorie Reents-Budet | Prudence M. Rice | William Ringle | Fernando Robles Castellanos | Alejandra Roche Recinos| Bradley W. Russell | Andrew Scherer | Whittaker Schroder | Payson Sheets | Edgar Suyuc | Alexandre Tokovinine | Paola Torres | Daniela Triadan | Kenichiro Tsukamoto | Clive Vella | Bart Victor | Beniamino Volta | Brent K. S. Woodfill | Andrew R. Wyatt | Norman Yoffee A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Ancient Maya
| Author | : Arthur Demarest |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2004-12-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521533904 |
Ancient Maya comes to life in this new holistic and theoretical study.
Palaces and Power in the Americas
| Author | : Jessica Joyce Christie |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 429 |
| Release | : 2010-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0292782616 |
Ancient American palaces still captivate those who stand before them. Even in their fallen and ruined condition, the palaces project such power that, according to the editors of this new collection, it must have been deliberately drawn into their formal designs, spatial layouts, and choice of locations. Such messages separated palaces from other elite architecture and reinforced the power and privilege of those residing in them. Indeed, as Christie and Sarro write, "the relation between political power and architecture is a pervasive and intriguing theme in the Americas." Given the variety of cultures, time periods, and geographical locations examined within, the editors of this book have grouped the articles into four sections. The first looks at palaces in cultures where they have not previously been identified, including the Huaca of Moche Site, the Wari of Peru, and Chaco Canyon in the U.S. Southwest. The second section discusses palaces as "stage sets" that express power, such as those found among the Maya, among the Coast Salish of the Pacific Northwest, and at El Tajín on the Mexican Gulf Coast. The third part of the volume presents cases in which differences in elite residences imply differences in social status, with examples from Pasado de la Amada, the Valley of Oaxaca, Teotihuacan, and the Aztecs. The final section compares architectural strategies between cultures; the models here are Farfán, Peru, under both the Chimú and the Inka, and the separate states of the Maya and the Inka. Such scope, and the quality of the scholarship, make Palaces and Power in the Americas a must-have work on the subject.
Specialization, Exchange and Complex Societies
| Author | : Elizabeth M. Brumfiel |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1987-01-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521321181 |
This book, a comparative study of specialised production in prehistoric societies, examines approaches to specialization and exchange.
Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands
| Author | : Damien B. Marken |
| Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2015-11-21 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 160732413X |
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. Contributors include Francisco Estrada Belli, James L. Fitzsimmons, Sarah E. Jackson, Caleb Kestle, Brigitte Kovacevich, Allan Maca, Damien B. Marken, James Meierhoff, Timothy Murtha, Cynthia Robin, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Andrew Wyatt.
Understanding Early Classic Copan
| Author | : Ellen E. Bell |
| Publisher | : UPenn Museum of Archaeology |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9781931707510 |
The book is not just multidisciplinary but interdisciplinary, linking, for example, the architecture of monuments with epigraphy, language concepts, and human events.
Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies
| Author | : Rachel A. Horowitz |
| Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2019-06-21 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1607328925 |
Lithic Technologies in SedentarySocieties examines lithic technology from ancient societies in Mesoamerica, the Near East, South Asia, and North America, showcasing the important contributions in-depth lithic analysis can make to the study of sedentary societies around the world. Using cutting-edge analytical techniques these case studies address difficult anthropological questions concerning economic, social, and political issues, as well as global trends in lithic production. Lithic analysis focused on sedentary societies, especially in places like Mesoamerica, has previously been neglected mostly because of the high frequency of informal tools, but such bias limits the ways in which both lithic production and economic organization are investigated. Bringing the importance of studying such technologies to the fore and emphasizing the vital anthropological questions that lithics can answer, Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies is a valuable resource for scholars and students of lithic technology and sedentary, complex societies. Contributors: Fumi Arakawa, Mary A. Davis, James Enloe, Dan Healan, Francesca Manclossi, Theodore Marks, Jayur Madhusudan Mehta, Jason S. R. Paling, Steve Rosen, John Whittaker
