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Titolo |
Tibes : people, power, and ritual at the center of the cosmos / / edited by L. Antonio Curet and Lisa M. Stringer |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2010 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (349 p.) |
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Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CuretL. Antonio <1960-> |
StringerLisa M. <1966-> |
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Indians of the West Indies - Puerto Rico - Tibes (Ponce) - Antiquities |
Excavations (Archaeology) - Puerto Rico - Tibes (Ponce) |
Indians of the West Indies - Puerto Rico - Tibes (Ponce) - Rites and ceremonies |
Sacred space - Puerto Rico - Tibes (Ponce) - History |
Landscapes - Social aspects - Puerto Rico - Tibes (Ponce) - History |
Power (Social sciences) - Puerto Rico - Tibes (Ponce) - History |
Social classes - Puerto Rico - Tibes (Ponce) - History |
Tibes (Ponce, P.R.) Antiquities |
Tibes (Ponce, P.R.) Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-322) and index. |
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Introduction / L. Antonio Curet and Lisa M. Stringer -- Tibes : history and first archaeological work / Pedro Alvarado Zayas and L. Antonio Curet -- The archaeological project of the Ceremonial Center of Tibes / L. Antonio Curet -- Geophysical prospection at the ceremonial site of Tibes, 1998-2001 / Daniel Welch -- Paleoethnobotanical research at Tibes / Lee A. Newsom -- Animal use at the Tibes Ceremonial Center / Susan D. deFrance ... [et al.] -- Lithics from the Tibes ceremonial site : analysis of the stone artifacts from the 1996-1999 field seasons / Jeffery B. Walker -- Boulder lithology survey at the Tibes ceremonial site / Scott Rice-Snow ... [et al.] -- Ancient bones tell stories : osteobiography of human remains from Tibes / Edwin F. Crespo-Torres -- Bone chemistry and paleodiet at the Ceremonial Center of Tibes / William J. Pestle -- Tibes and the social landscape : integration, |
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interaction, and the community / Joshua M. Torres -- Plazas, bateys, and ceremonial centers : the social and cultural context of Tibes in the ancient history of Puerto Rico / L. Antonio Curet and Joshua M. Torres. |
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The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico. The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and on the other two sides by hills, this approximately 10.5-acre site remains as fertile and productive today as when first occupied over 2,000 years ago. Such a rich region would have been a choice location for native peoples because of the diversity in all resources, from land, air, and |
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UNINA9910966612403321 |
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City and country in the ancient world / / edited by John Rich and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991 |
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1-134-89127-X |
1-134-89128-8 |
1-138-41101-9 |
0-203-41870-0 |
1-280-10620-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society ; ; v. 2 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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RichJohn <1944-> |
Wallace-HadrillAndrew |
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Cities and towns, Ancient - Greece |
Cities and towns - Rome |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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chapter 1 Archaeology and the study of the Greek city / A.M.SNODGRASS -- chapter 2 The early polis as city and state / IAN MORRIS -- chapter 3 Modelling settlement structures in Ancient Greece: new |
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approaches to the polis / T.E.RIHLL AND A.G.WILSON -- chapter 4 Surveys, cities and synoecism / W.G.CAVANAGH -- part 5 Pride and prejudice, sense and subsistence: exchange and society in the Greek city / ROBIN OSBORNE -- chapter Acknowledgements -- chapter Introduction -- chapter Samnium -- chapter Lycia -- chapter Conclusions -- chapter Acknowledgements -- chapter 7 Roman towns and their territories: an archaeological perspective / MARTIN MILLETT -- chapter 8 Towns and territories in southern Etruria / T.W.POTTER -- chapter 9 City, territory and taxation / MIREILLE CORBIER -- chapter 10 Elites and trade in the Roman town -- chapter 11 Spatial organisation and social change in Roman towns -- chapter List of Contributors. |
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This volume of papers by influential historians and archaeologists explores the city-country relationship in the ancient Greco-Roman world and its impact on social, political, economic and cultural conditions in classical antiquity. |
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