Research Catalog

Title

Approaches to monumental landscapes of the ancient Maya / edited by Brett A. Houk, Barbara Arroyo, and Terry G. Powis ; foreword by Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase.

Publication

• Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Houk, Brett A. (Brett Alan), 1967-
• Arroyo, Bárbara
• Powis, Terry G.
• Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953-
• Chase, Diane Z.

Description

xix, 474 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"This volume brings together a wide spectrum of new approaches to ancient Maya studies in an innovative exploration of how the Preclassic and Classic Maya shaped their world. Moving beyond the towering temples and palaces typically associated with the Maya civilization, contributors present unconventional examples of monumental Maya landscapes. Featuring studies from across the central Maya lowlands, Belize, and the northern and central Maya highlands and spanning over 10,000 years of human occupation in the region, these chapters show how the word "monumental" can be used to describe natural and constructed landscapes, political and economic landscapes, and ritual and sacred landscapes. Examples include a massive system of aqueducts and canals at the Kaminaljuyu site, a vast arena designed for public spectacle at Chan Chich, and even the complex realms of Maya cosmology as represented by the ritual cave at Las Cuevas. By including physical, conceptual, and symbolic ways monumentality pervaded ancient Maya culture, this volume broadens traditional understandings of how the Maya interacted with their environment and provides exciting analytical perspectives to guide future study."--

Series Statement

Maya studies

Uniform Title

Maya studies.

Alternative Title

Monumental landscapes of the ancient Maya

Subjects

• Mayas
• History
• Mayas > History
• Cultural landscapes
• Landscape archaeology

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-450) and index.

Contents

How the Maya shaped their world / Marcello A. Canuto, Brett A. Houk, Terry G. Powis, and Barbara Arroyo -- The holocene occupations of southern Belize / Keith M. Prufer and Douglas J. Kennett -- The natural and constructed landscape of Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala / Brent K.S. Woodfill and Marc Wolf -- Ritual practice, urbanization, and sociopolitical organization at preclassic Ceibal, Guatemala / Melissa Burham, Takeshi Inomata, Daniela Triadan, and Jessica MacLellan -- From urban core to vacant terrain: defining the heterotopia of Maya monumental landscapes at the cross-roads of the Middle Belize River Valley / Eleanor Harrison-Buck, Mark D. Willis, Chester P. Walker, Satoru Murata, and Marieka Brouwer Burg -- Caracol's impact on the landscape of the classic period Maya: urbanism and complex interaction in a tropical environment / Diane Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase, and Adrian S.Z. Chase -- The monumental aquascape of Kaminaljuyu: water in the archaeology of an early highland site / Bárbara Arroyo and Lucia Henderson -- All the world's a stage: the late classic built environment of Chan Chich, Belize / Brett A. Houk and Ashley Booher -- La Corona: negotiating a landscape of power / Marcello A. Canuto and Tomás Barrientos Q -- Ancient Maya queenship: generations of crafting state politics and alliance building from Kaanul to Waka' / Olivia C. Navarro-Farr, Keith Eppich, David A. Freidel , and Griselda Pérez Robles -- Landscapes of warfare, détente, and trade in the Maya west / Charles W. Golden and Andrew K. Scherer -- Monumental landscapes as instruments of radical economic change: the rise and fall of a Maya economic network / Arthur A. Demarest, Bart I. Victor, Chloé Andrieu, and Paola Torres -- A discussion of early monumentality at Pacbitun, Belize / Terry G. Powis, George J. Micheletti, Jon Spenard, and Sheldon Skaggs -- Monumental landscapes, changing ideologies, and political histories in the Mopan Valley / M. Kathryn Brown and Jason Yaeger -- Capturing the forest: ancient Maya ritual caves as built environments / Holley Moyes -- Monumental landscapes of the Maya: cogitating on a past built environment / Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase.

Call Number

JFE 20-3437

ISBN

• 9780813066226
• 0813066220

LCCN

2019015544

OCLC

1096345304

Title

Approaches to monumental landscapes of the ancient Maya / edited by Brett A. Houk, Barbara Arroyo, and Terry G. Powis ; foreword by Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase.

Publisher

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Maya studies

Maya studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-450) and index.

Added Author

Houk, Brett A. (Brett Alan), 1967- editor.

Arroyo, Bárbara, editor.

Powis, Terry G., editor.

Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953- writer of foreword.

Chase, Diane Z., writer of foreword.

Other Form:

Online version: Approaches to monumental landscapes of the ancient Maya. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2020 9780813057347 (DLC) 2019020353

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3437