Perspectives on the Ancient Maya of Chetumal Bay / / edited by Debra S. Walker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826014603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 0-8130-5175-4; 0-8130-5589-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Collana: Maya Studies
• Disciplina: 972.67
• Soggetti: Mayas - Mexico - Quintana Roo (State); Mayas - Belize; Excavations (Archaeology) - Mexico - Quintana Roo (State); Excavations (Archaeology) - Belize; Chetumal Bay (Mexico) History
• 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: Chetumal Bay landscapes -- Ancient Maya life on the fringes of Chetumal Bay: an introduction / Debra S. Walker -- The first settlers on Chetumal Bay / Kathryn Reese-Taylor -- Life and afterlife at Cerro Maya, Belize / Debra S. Walker -- Noh Kah: an archaeological site in extreme southeastern Quintana Roo / Javier López Camacho, Araceli Vázquez Villegas, and Luis A. Torres Díaz -- Visualizing maya agriculture along the Rio Hondo: a remote sensing approach / Thomas Guderjan, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Timothy Beach, Samantha Krause, and Clifford Brown -- Chetumal Bay in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries / Maxine Oland -- Chetumal Bay ceramics -- Red wares, zapatista, drinking vessels, colonists, and exchange at Cerro Maya / Robin Robertson -- An expedient pottery technology and its implications for ancient Maya trade and interaction / James Aimers, Elizabeth Haussner, Dori Farthing, and Satoru Murata -- Sitting on the dock of the bay: ceramic connections between Lamanai and the Chetumal Bay area over more than two millennia / Linda Howie, Terry G. Powis, and Elizabeth Graham -- Regional expressions of the ; postclassic effigy censer system in the Chetumal Bay area / Susan Milbrath and Debra S. Walker -- Other Chetumal Bay industries -- Shell materials from Oxtankah, Quintana Roo / Emiliano Ricardo Melgar Tísoc -- Stone tools and trade on the southern end of Chetumal Bay / Beverly A. Chiarulli -- Postclassic tool production at Santa Rita Corozal: implications for domestic craft production and regional exchange in flaked stone / Marc D. Marino, Lucas R. Martindale Johnson, and Nathan J. Meissner -- Economic implications of mano and metate use at Cerro Maya, Belize / Lisa G. Duffy -- Chetumal Bay in perspective -- Coastal economies: comparing northern and southern Belize / Heather McKillop -- Maya at the edge of the world: thoughts on Chetumal Bay / David A. Freidel.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume brings together Mexican and Belize research as well as Spanish-language and English-language research on the Chetumal Bay Maya site.