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Approaches to monumental landscapes of the ancient Maya
- Title
- Approaches to monumental landscapes of the ancient Maya [electronic resource] / 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]
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- Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 474 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Maya studies
- Uniform Title
- Approaches to monumental landscapes of the ancient Maya (Online)
- Maya studies.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-450) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- How the Maya shaped their world / Marcello A. Canuto, Brett A. Houk, 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 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 / Barbara 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 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.
- LCCN
- 2019015544
- OCLC
- ssj0002259531
- Title
- Approaches to monumental landscapes of the ancient Maya [electronic resource] / edited by Brett A. Houk, Barbara Arroyo, and Terry G. Powis ; foreword by Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase.
- Imprint
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]
- Series
- Maya studiesMaya studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-450) and index.
- Access
- Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
- Houk, Brett A. (Brett Alan), 1967-Arroyo, Bárbara.Powis, Terry G.Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953-Chase, Diane Z.