Early new world monumentality [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard L. Burger and Robert M. Rosenswig

• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (502 p.)
• Disciplina: 977/.01
• Soggetto topico: Indian architecture - America; Indians - Dwellings; Urban Indians; Mound-builders - America
• Soggetto geografico: America Antiquities
• Altri autori: BurgerRichard L RosenswigRobert M
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Considering early New World monumentality / Robert M. Rosenswig and Richard L. Burger -- Early mounds in the lower Mississippi valley / Joe Saunders -- Shell mounds of the middle St. Johns Basin, Northeast Florida / Kenneth E. Sassaman and Asa R. Randall -- Monumentality in eastern North America during the Mississippian period / David G. Anderson -- Agriculture and monumentality in the Soconusco region of Chiapas, Mexico / Robert M. Rosenswig -- Early Olmec wetland mounds: investing energy to produce energy / Ann Cyphers and Judith Zurita-Noguera -- The origins of monumentality in ancient Guerrero, Mexico / Louise I. Paradis -- Early civilization in the Maya lowlands: monumentality and place-making--a view from the Holmul region / Francisco Estrada-Belli -- Monumental architecture and social complexity in the intermediate area / R. Jeffrey Frost and Jeffrey Quilter -- Early mounds and monumental art in ancient Amazonia: history, scale, function, and social ecology / Anna C. Roosevelt, ... [et al.] -- Why do people build monuments: late archaic platform mounds in the Norte Chico / Jonathan Haas and Winifred Creamer -- Monumental architecture arising from an early astronomical-religious complex in Perú, 2200-1750 BC / Robert A. Benfer Jr. -- Preceramic and initial period monumentality within the Casma valley of Peru / Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski -- Monumental public complexes and agricultural expansion on Peru's central coast during the second millennium BC / Richard L. Burger and Lucy C. Salazar -- Agricultural terraces as monumental architecture in the Titcaca basin: their origins in the Yaya-Mama religious tradition / Sergio J. Chávez -- A west Asian perspective on early monuments / Frank Hole.
• Sommario/riassunto: In studies of ancient civilizations, the focus is often on the temples, palaces, and buildings created and then left behind, both because they survive and because of the awe they still inspire today. From the Mississippian mounds in the United States to the early pyramids of Peru, these monuments have been well-documented, but less attention has been paid to analyzing the logistical complexity involved in their creation. In this collection, prominent archaeologists explore the sophisticated political and logistical organizations that were required to plan and complete these architectu
• Titolo autorizzato: Early new world monumentality
• ISBN: 0-8130-4312-3; 0-8130-4273-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779168103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II