Motul de San Jos [[electronic resource] ] : politics, history, and economy in a classic Maya polity / / edited by Antonia E. Foias and Kitty F. Emery

• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (553 p.)
• Disciplina: 972.81/2; 972.812
• Soggetto topico: Mayas - Guatemala - Petén (Dept.) - Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology) - Guatemala - Petén (Dept.)
• Soggetto geografico: Petén (Guatemala : Dept.) Antiquities
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FoiasAntonia E EmeryKitty F
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Politics and economics: theoretical perspectives of the Motul de San Jose project / Antonia E. Foias and Kitty F. Emery -- Lords of windy water: the royal court of Motul de San Jose in classic Maya inscriptions / Alexander Tokovinine and Marc Zender -- Identity and interaction: ceramic styles and social history of the Ik Polity, Guatemala / Dorie Reents-Budet, Stanley Guenter, Ronald L. Bishop, and M. James Blackman -- Architecture, volumetrics, and social stratification at Motul de San Jose during the late and terminal classic / Antonia E. Foias, Christina T. Halperin, Elly Spensley, and Jeanette Castellanos -- Figurine economies at Motul de San Jose: multiple and shifting modes of valuation / Christina T. Halperin -- Motul de San Jose palace pottery production: reconstructions from wasters and debris / Christina T. Halperin and Antonia E. Foias -- History, politics, and ceramics: the ceramic sequence of Trinidad de Nosotros, El Peten, Guatemala / Matthew D. Moriarty -- Wealth, status, and stucco: micromorphology studies at La Trinidad, a secondary center in the Motul de San Jose periphery / Ellen Spensley -- Akte: small secondary center to the northeast of Motul de San Jose / Suzanna Yorgey and Matthew D. Moriarty -- Preliminary investigations in macro and microbotany at Motul de San Jose / Andrew Wyatt, David Jarzen, Lizzy Hare, and Kitty F. Emery -- Zooarchaeology of Motul de San Jose: animals in environmental and economic perspective / Kitty F. Emery -- Animal resource use and exchange at an inland Maya port: zooarchaeological investigations at Trinidad de Nosotros / Erin Kennedy Thornton -- In search of markets and fields: soil chemical investigations at Motul de San Jose / Daniel A. Bair and Richard E. Terry -- Stable carbon isotope evidence of ancient maize cultivation on the soils of Motul de San Jose / Elizabeth A. Webb and Henry P. Schwarcz -- Landscape, economies, and the politics of power in the Motul de San Jose zone / Kitty F. Emery and Antonia E. Foias -- Control without controlling: Motul de San Jose and its environs from an outsider's perspective / Elizabeth Graham.
• Sommario/riassunto: Scholars have long debated the nature of Maya political organization during the Classic period (AD 250-950). Complex questions regarding political centralization, economic change, and the role of politics and economics in the rise and collapse of the civilization have been examined and reexamined from a variety of perspectives. Antonia Foias and Kitty Emery have assembled a broad collection of essays all focused on a single polity, that of Motul de San José. By presenting a coherent interdisciplinary body of archaeological and environmental data, the volume offers an intensely deep,
• Titolo autorizzato: Motul de San Jos
• ISBN: 0-8130-4342-5; 0-8130-4251-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462293903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Maya studies.