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Before the volcano erupted : the ancient Cerèn village in Central America / edited by Payson Sheets.
- Title
- Before the volcano erupted : the ancient Cerèn village in Central America / edited by Payson Sheets.
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002.
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- Additional Authors
- Sheets, Payson D.
- Description
- viii, 226 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
- Summary
- Annotation
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Animal remains (Archaeology) > Zapotitán Valley
- Ceren Site (El Salvador)
- Mayas > Antiquities
- Mayas > Urban residence > Zapotitán Valley
- Plant remains (Archaeology) > Zapotitán Valley
- Social archaeology > Zapotitán Valley
- Volcanic ash, tuff, etc. > Zapotitán Valley
- Zapotitán Valley (El Salvador) > Antiquities
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-219) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Volcanology, stratigraphy, and effects on structures / C. Dan Miller -- Geophysical exploration at Cerén / Lawrence B. Conyers and Hartmut Spetzler -- Cerén plant resources : abundance and diversity / David L. Lentz and Carlos R. Ramírez-Sosa -- Ancient home and garden : the view from household 1 at Cerén / Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, Scott E. Simmons, and David B. Tucker -- Household 2 at Cerén : the remains of an agrarian and craft-oriented corporate group / Brian R. McKee -- Structure 16 : the kitchen of household 3 / Inga Calvin -- Structure 4 : a storehouse-workshop for household 4 / Andrea I Gerstle and Payson Sheets -- The civic complex / Andrea I. Gerstle -- Structure 9 : a Precolumbian sweat bath at Cerén / Brian R. McKee.
- Structure 10 : feasting and village festivals / Linda A. Brown and Andrea I. Gerstle -- Divination at Cerén : the evidence from structure 12 / Scott E. Simmons and Payson Sheets -- Ceramics and their use at Cerén / Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, with contributions by Ronald L. Bishop -- The chipped stone artifacts of Cerén / Payson Sheets -- Groundstone artifacts in the Cerén village / Payson Sheets -- Household and community animal use at Cerén / Linda A. Brown -- Artifacts made from plant materials / Harriet F. Beaubien and Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett -- The conservation program at Cerén / Harriet F. Beaubien -- Household production and specialization at Cerén / Payson Sheets and Scott E. Simmons -- Cultivating biodiversity : Milpas, gardens, and the classic period landscape / Payson Sheets and Michelle Woodward.
- Continuity and change in the contemporary community of Joya de Cerén / Carlos Benjamín Lara M. and Sarah B. Barber.
- ISBN
- 0292777612 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2002003611
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library