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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784426803321

Titolo

Continuities and changes in Maya archaeology [[electronic resource] ] : perspectives at the millennium / / edited by Charles W. Golden and Greg Borgstede

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-135-94606-X

1-280-28878-7

9786610288786

0-203-49422-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GoldenCharles W. <1972->

BorgstedeGreg <1972->

Disciplina

972.81/016

Soggetti

Mayas - Antiquities

Mayas - Material culture

Archaeology - Mexico - History - 20th century

Archaeology - Central America - History - 20th century

Mexico Antiquities

Central America Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Haf-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology: An Introduction; 2 Looking Backward and Looking Forward: How Maya Studies of Yesterday Shape Today; 3 Kingship and Polity: Conceptualizing the Maya Body Politic; 4 The Blind Spot: Where the Elite and Non-Elite Meet; 5 History in the Future: Historical Data and Investigations in Lowland Maya Studies; 6 Ancient Maya Landscapes; 7 Maya Epigraphy at the Millennium: Personal Notes; 8 Noxious or Nurturing Nature? Maya Civilization in Environmental Context

9 The Past and Future of Maya Ceramic Studies10 Lithic Analysis in the Maya Area; 11 Osteological Investigations of Ancient Maya Lives; 12 Maya Zooarchaeology: In Pursuit of Social Variability and Environmental



Heterogeneity; 13 What Did They Do and Where? Activity Areas and Residue Analyses in Maya Archaeology; 14 Professional Archaeology and the Modern Maya: A Historical Sketch; 15 We Have Never Been Post-modern: Maya Archaeology in the Ethnographic Present; 16 The Sacred Place in the Development of Archaeology in Guatemala: An Analysis

17 Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology: An OverviewIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Presents the current state of of Maya archaeology by focusing on the history of the field for the past hundred years, present day research, and forward looking prescription for the direction of the