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- Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 511 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- This book provides a new understanding on the rise of Maya civilization, pushing back the origins of social, religious and economic complexity hundreds of years earlier than traditionally thought.
- Series Statement
- Maya studies
- Uniform Title
- Pathways to Complexity (Online)
- Maya studies.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-492) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Foreword / Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase -- Introduction / M. Kathryn Bey and George J. Bey III -- The Paleo-American and Archaic periods in Yucatan / Anthony P. Andrews and Fernando Robles Castellanos -- The Cunil Complex: early villages in Belize / Lauren Sullivan, Jaime Awe, and M. Kathryn Brown -- The earliest ceramics of the northern Maya lowlands / E. Wyllys Andrews V, George J. Bey III, Christopher Gunn -- The role of ideology, religion, and ritual in the foundation of social complexity in the Belize River Valley / M. Kathryn Brown, Jaime J. Awe, and James F. Garber -- Middle preclassic Maya shell ornament production: implications for the development of complexity at Pacbitun, Belize / Bobbi Hohmann, Terry Powis and Paul Healy -- Developmental dynamics, energetics, and complex economic interactions of the early Maya of the Mirador-Calakmul Basin, Guatemala and Campeche, Mexico / Richard D. Hansen, Donald W. Forsyth, James C. Woods, Thomas Schreiner, and Gene L. Titmus -- The preclassic settlement of northwest Yucatan: recharting the pathway to complexity / David S. Anderson, Fernando Robles Castellanos, and Anthony P. Andrews -- The genesis of Maya complexity in the northwestern region of the Yucatan Penisula / Fernando Robles Castellanos and Teresa Ceballos Gallareta -- The preclassic period: a view of complexity in the residential settlement of Ek Balam / Tara Bond-Freeman -- At the foot of the hills: early monumentality at Xocnaceh, Yucatan, Mexico / Tomás Gallareta Negrón -- El Achiotal: an interior frontier center in the northwestern Pet¿n, Guatemala / Mary Jane Acuña -- Changing stages: royal legitimacy and the architectural development of the pinturas complex at San Bartolo, Guatemala / William Saturno, Franco Rossi, and Boris Beltrán -- Naranjo, Guatemala, a middle preclassic site in the central highlands of Guatemala / Barbara Arroyo -- Maya and the idea of empire / David Freidel -- Conclusion: charting the pathways to complexity in the Maya lowlands / M. Kathryn Brown and George J. Bey III.
- LCCN
- 2017030477
- OCLC
- ssj0001962984
- Title
Pathways to Complexity [electronic resource] : A View from the Maya Lowlands / edited by M. Kathryn Brown and George J. Bey III ; foreword by Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase.
- Imprint
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
- Series
Maya studies
Maya studies.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-492) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Brown, M. Kathryn, 1965-
Bey, George J.
Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953-
Chase, Diane Z.