03482oam 22004694a 450 991083823810332120200402171951.01-60732-764-3(CKB)4100000007210706(MiAaPQ)EBC5611193(OCoLC)1128165223(MdBmJHUP)muse66384(EXLCZ)99410000000721070620180209d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAn Inconstant LandscapeThe Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala /edited by Thomas G. Garrison and Stephen HoustonLouisville, Colorado :University Press of Colorado,[2018]Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2019©[2018]1 online resource (493 pages)1-60732-763-5 Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-491) and index.A fortress in heaven : researching the long-term at El Zotz, Guatemala /Stephen Houston, Thomas G. Garrison, and Edwin Román --Monumental beginnings : the Preclassic Maya of El Palmar and the Buenavista Valley, Peten, Guatemala /James A. Doyle and Rony E. Piedrasanta --Ruling through defense : the rise of an Early Classic Dynasty at El Zotz /Edwin Román, Thomas G. Garrison, and Stephen Houston --Border lords and client kings : El Zotz and Bejucal in the Late Classic Period /Nicholas P. Carter, Yeny M. Gutierrez Castillo, and Sarah Newman --Collapse, continuity, change : El Zotz in the Terminal Classic Period / Sarah Newman, Jose Luis Garrido, and Nicholas P. Carter --In the wake of "collapse" : the Post-Dynastic or Early Postclassic Period at El Zotz /Melanie J. Kingsley and Laura Gómez --Environments of El Zotz : water and soil chemistry, the El Zotz dam, and long-term environmental change /Timothy Beach, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Colin Doyle, and William Delgado --Understanding social, economic, and political change : the ceramics of El Zotz /Ewa Czapiewska-Halliday, Nicholas P. Carter, Melanie J. Kingsley, Sarah Newman, and Alyce de Carteret --Lithic technologies and economies at El Zotz /Zachary Hruby --A tableau in clay : the figurines and figurine-whistles of El Zotz /Alyce de Carteret and Jose Luis Garrido --Constructed landscapes : architectural stratigraphy, behavioral practices, and building technologies at El Zotz /Cassandra Mesick Braun --Bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology of El Zotz, Bejucal, and El Palmar /Andrew K. Scherer --An inconstant landscape : Pa'ka'n in a regional context /Thomas G. Garrison and Stephen Houston."Six years of archaeological survey around the Maya kingdom of El Zotz a complex picture of a dynamic landscape that experienced numerous fluctuations over the course of 2000 years of occupation-it serves as a test-case of political debility and strength during the height of dynastic struggles"--Provided by publisher.MayasAntiquitiesGuatemalaAntiquitiesZotz Site (Guatemala)Electronic books. MayasAntiquities.972.81/01Houston Stephen D.Garrison Thomas G(Thomas Gardner),MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910838238103321An Inconstant Landscape4135610UNINA