Description |
1 online resource (x, 169 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory |
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Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
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Contents |
Public architecture, ritual, and temporal dynamics -- The spatial arrangement of a Maya city -- Diversity of power and authority in a Maya city -- Agriculture as Blue Creek's economic base -- The importance of trade and commerce at Blue Creek -- Power and authority at Blue Creek -- Addressing some large and small issues |
Summary |
For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including monumental ceremonial structures, elite and non-elite residences, ditched agricultural fields, and residential clusters just outside the core. Since 1992, a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research team has intensively investigated Blue Creek in an integrated study of the dynamic structure and |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-165) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Urban Mayas -- Hondo River Region (Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize)
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Mayas -- Hondo River Region (Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize) -- Antiquities
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Maya architecture -- Hondo River Region (Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize)
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Hondo River Region (Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize)
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HISTORY.
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Maya architecture
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Mayas -- Antiquities
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Urban Mayas
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SUBJECT |
Blue Creek Ruin (Belize) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98004718
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Hondo River Region (Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize)
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Subject |
Belize -- Blue Creek Ruin
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780817381929 |
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0817381929 |
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0817315659 |
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9780817315658 |
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