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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781697703321

Titolo

Classic Maya provincial politics [[electronic resource] ] : Xunantunich and its hinterlands / / edited by Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, c2010

ISBN

1-299-19157-6

0-8165-0287-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (465 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LeCountLisa Jeanne <1955->

YaegerJason <1969->

Disciplina

972.82

Soggetti

Social archaeology - Belize River Valley (Guatemala and Belize)

Mayas - Belize River Valley (Guatemala and Belize) - Politics and government

Mayas - Belize River Valley (Guatemala and Belize) - Antiquities

Excavations (Archaeology) - Belize River Valley (Guatemala and Belize)

Xunantunich Site (Belize)

Belize River Valley (Guatemala and Belize) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Xunantunich archaeological project, 1991-1997 / Richard M. Leventhal ... [et al.] -- Provincial politics and current models of the Maya state / Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger -- Antecedents, allies, antagonists : Xunantunich and its neighbors / Wendy Ashmore -- A brief description of Xunantunich / Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger -- Changing places : the castillo and the structure of power at Xunantunich / Richard M. Leventhal -- The carved monuments and inscriptions of Xunantunich : implications for terminal classic sociopolitical relationships in the Belize Valley / Christophe Helmke, Jaime Awe, and Nikolai Grube -- Monumental building programs and changing political strategies at Xunantunich / Thomas R. Jamison -- Shifting political dynamics as seen from the Xunantunich palace / Jason Yaeger -- Elite craft production of stone drills and slate at Group D, Xunantunich / Jennifer B. Braswell -- The social construction of roads at Xunantunich, from design to abandonment / Angela H. Keller --



Mount Maloney people? Domestic pots, everyday practice, and the social formation of the Xunantunich polity / Lisa J. LeCount -- Landscapes of the Xunantunich hinterlands / Jason Yaeger -- Population, intensive agriculture, labor value, and elite-commoner political power relations in the Xunantunich hinterlands / L. Theodore Neff -- Integration and interdependence : the domestic chipped-stone economy of the Xunantunich polity / Jon C. VandenBosch, Lisa J. LeCount, and Jason Yaeger -- A community to be counted : Chaa Creek and the emerging Xunantunich polity / Samuel V. Connell -- Living in the hinterlands of a provincial polity / Cynthia Robin, Jason Yaeger, and Wendy Ashmore -- Conclusions : placing Xunantunich and its hinterland settlements in perspective / Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger -- Provincial politics at Xunantunich : power, differentiation, and identity in a classic-period Maya realm / Edward Schortman.