Ancient Maya pottery : classification, analysis, and interpretation / / edited by James John Aimers ; foreword by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 738.09728; 972.81
• Soggetto topico: Maya pottery; Mayas - Antiquities
• Altri autori: AimersJames J ChaseDiane Z ChaseArlen F <1953-> (Arlen Frank)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction / James J. Aimers -- 2. Type-variety: what works and what doesn't / Prudence M. Rice -- 3. Types and traditions, spheres and systems: a consideration of analytic constructs and concepts in the -- Classification and interpretation of Maya ceramics / Cassandra R. Bill -- 4. Interpreting form and context: ceramic subcomplexes at Caracol, Nohmul, and Santa Rita Corozal, Belize / Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase -- 5. Ceramic resemblances, trade, and emulation: changing utilitarian pottery traditions in the Maya Lowlands / Robert E. Fry -- 6. Type-variety on trial: experiments in classification and meaning using ceramic assemblages from Lamanai, Belize / James J. Aimers and Elizabeth Graham -- 7. Establishing the Cunil Ceramic Complex at Cahal Pech, Belize / Lauren A. Sullivan and Jaime J. Awe -- 8. Technological style and terminal preclassic orange ceramics in the Holmul Region, Guatemala / Michael G. Callaghan, Francisco Estrada-Belli, and Nina Neivens de Estrada -- 9. Acanmul, Becán, and the Xcocom phenomenon through a type-variety looking glass: resolving historical enigmas through hands-on typological assessments / Joseph Ball and Jennifer Taschek -- 10. Looking for times: how type-variety analysis helps us "see" the Early postclassic in Northwestern Honduras / Patricia A. Urban, Edward M. Schortman, and Marne T. Ausec -- 11. Slips, styles, and trading patterns: a postclassic perspective from Central Peten, Guatemala / Leslie G. Cecil -- 12. Mayapán's Chen Mul modeled effigy censers: iconography and archaeological context / Susan Milbrath and Carlos Peraza Lope -- 13. Problems and prospects in Maya ceramic classification, analysis, and interpretation / James J. Aimers.
• Sommario/riassunto: A volume of classification, interpretation, and analysis of Maya pottery using the type: variety-mode approach, exploring how communities in the region interacted through the lens of ceramic exchange.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ancient Maya pottery
• ISBN: 0-8130-4348-4; 0-8130-4257-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828351003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Maya studies.