An Inconstant Landscape : The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala / / edited by Thomas G. Garrison and Stephen Houston

• Pubblicazione: Louisville, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , [2018]; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019; ©[2018]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (493 pages)
• Disciplina: 972.81/01
• Soggetto topico: Mayas - Antiquities
• Soggetto geografico: Guatemala Antiquities; Zotz Site (Guatemala)
• Persona (resp. second.): HoustonStephen D.; GarrisonThomas G (Thomas Gardner)
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-491) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: An Inconstant Landscape
• ISBN: 9781607327646; 1607327643
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910960319603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II