| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Maya studies |
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Maya studies.
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| Contents |
Politics and economics : theoretical perspectives of the Motul de San José Project / Antonia E. Foias and Kitty F. Emery -- Lords of windy water : the royal court of Motul de San José in classic Maya inscriptions / Alexander Tokovinine and Marc Zender -- Identity and interaction : ceramic styles and social history of the Ik' polity, Guatemala / Dorie Reents-Budet, Stanley Guenter, Ronald L. Bishop, and M. James Blackman -- Architecture, volumetrics, and social stratification at Motul de San José during the late and terminal classic / Antonia E. Foias, Christina T. Halperin, Elly Spensley Moriarty, and Jeanette Castellanos -- Figurine economies at Motul de San José : multiple and shifting modes of valuation / Christina T. Halperin -- Motul de San José palace pottery production : reconstructions from wasters and debris / Christina T. Halperin and Antonia E. Foias -- History, politics, and ceramics : the ceramic sequence of Trinidad de Nosotros, El Petén, Guatemala / Matthew D. Moriarty -- Wealth, status, and stucco : micromorphology studies at Trinidad, a secondary center in the Motul de San José periphery / Ellen Spensley Moriarty -- Akte : settlement, chronology, and monuments at the minor ceremonial center Akte in the Motul de San José periphery / Suzanna C. Yorgey and Matthew D. Moriarty -- Preliminary investigations in macro- and microbotany at Motul de San José / Andrew R. Wyatt, David M. Jarzen, Lizzy Hare, and Kitty F. Emery -- The Motul de San José animals in an economic perspective / Kitty F. Emery -- Animal resource use and exchange at an inland Maya port ;: zooarchaeological investigations at Trinidad de Nosotros / Erin Kennedy Thornton -- In search of markets and fields : soil chemical investigations at Motul de San José / Daniel A. Bair and Richard E. Terry -- Stable carbon isotope evidence of ancient maize cultivation on the soils of Motul de San José / Elizabeth A. Webb and Henry P. Schwarcz -- Landscape, economies, and the politics of power in the Motul de San José polity / Kitty F. Emery and Antonia E. Foias -- Control without controlling : Motul de San José and its environs from an outsider's perspective / Elizabeth Graham |
| Summary |
Scholars have long debated the nature of Maya political organization during the Classic period (AD 250-950). Complex questions regarding political centralization, economic change, and the role of politics and economics in the rise and collapse of the civilization have been examined and reexamined from a variety of perspectives. Antonia Foias and Kitty Emery have assembled a broad collection of essays all focused on a single polity, that of Motul de San José. By presenting a coherent interdisciplinary body of archaeological and environmental data, the volume offers an intensely deep, f |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 4, 2012) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mayas -- Guatemala -- Petén (Department) -- Antiquities
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Guatemala -- Petén (Department)
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Central America.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
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Antiquities
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Mayas -- Antiquities
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| SUBJECT |
Petén (Guatemala : Department) -- Antiquities
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| Subject |
Guatemala -- Petén (Department)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Foias, Antonia E.
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Emery, Kitty F.
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| LC no. |
2012009832 |
| ISBN |
9780813042510 |
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0813042518 |
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9780813041902 |
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0813041902 |
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129981848X |
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9781299818484 |
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