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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796115703321

Titolo

The ancient Maya marketplace : the archaeology of transient space / / edited by Eleanor M. King

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8165-3217-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

381/.10972810902

Soggetti

Mayas - Commerce

Mayas - Economic conditions

Mayas - Antiquities

Excavations (Archaeology) - Belize

Excavations (Archaeology) - Guatemala

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

The ethnohistoric evidence for Maya markets and its archaeological implications / Eleanor M. King -- The marketplace at Tikal / Christopher Jones -- Ancient Maya markets : architectural grammar and market identifications / Marshall Becker -- How to know it when we see it : marketplace identification at the classic Maya site of Buenavista del Cayo, Belize / Bernadette Cap -- Soil chemistry in the search for ancient Maya marketplaces / Richard E. Terry, Daniel A. Bair, and Eric G. Coronel -- The Maya marketplace at Maax Na, Belize / Leslie C. Shaw and Eleanor M. King -- Markets and marketing in the classic Maya lowlands : a case study from el Perú-Waka' / Keith Eppich and David Freidel -- Markets among the ancient Maya : the case of Caracol, Belize / Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, Richard E. Terry, Jacob M. Horlacher, and Adrian S. Z. Chase -- Contemporary Maya marketplaces : gender, social change, and implications for the past / Susan J. Wurtzburg.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Ancient Maya Marketplace, edited by Eleanor M. King, reviews the debate on prehispanic Maya markets. The volume's contributors challenge the model of a non-commercialized Maya economy and offer



compelling new evidence for the existence and identification of ancient marketplaces among the Maya"--Provided by publisher.