The ancient Maya of Mexico : reinterpreting the past of the Northern Maya lowlands / / edited by Geoffrey E. Braswell

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 386 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 972/.65
• Soggetto topico: Mayas - Mexico - Yucatán (State) - Antiquities; Mayas - Mexico - Yucatán (State) - Social life and customs; Mayas - Mexico - Yucatán (State) - Politics and government; Social archaeology - Mexico - Yucatán (State)
• Soggetto geografico: Yucatán (Mexico : State) Antiquities; Yucatán (Mexico : State) History
• Altri autori: BraswellGeoffrey E
• Note generali: First published 2012 by Equinox Publishing Ltd., an imprint of Acumen.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. The ancient Maya of Mexico : reinterpreting the past of the northern Maya lowlands / Geoffrey E. Braswell -- 2. The origins of the Mesoamerican ballgame : a new perspective from the northern Maya lowlands / David S. Anderson -- 3. The architecture of power and sociopolitical complexity in northwestern Yucatan during the preclassic period / Nancy Peniche May -- 4. Maya political cycling and the story of the Kaan polity / Joyce Marcus -- 5. Urbanism, architecture, and internationalism in the northern lowlands during the early classic / Scott R. Hutson -- 6. The political and economic organization of late classic states in the peninsular Gulf coast : the view from Champoton, Campeche / Jerald Ek -- 7. 5,000 sites and counting : the inspiration of Maya settlement studies / Walter R.T. Witschey and Clifford T. Brown -- 8. The Nunnery Quadrangle of Uxmal / William M. Ringle -- 9. In the shadow of the pyramid : excavations of the Great Platform of Chichen Itza / Geoffrey E. Braswell and Nancy Peniche May -- 10. Divide and rule : interpreting site perimeter walls in the northern Maya lowlands and beyond / Lauren D. Hahn and Geoffrey E. Braswell -- 11. Rain and fertility rituals in postclassic Yucatan featuring Chaak and Chak Chel / Gabrielle Vail and Christine Hernández -- 12. Poor Mayapan / Clifford T. Brown [and others] -- 13. Maya collapse or resilience? : lessons from the Spanish conquest and the Caste War of Yucatan / Rani T. Alexander -- 14. Yucatan at the crossroads / Joyce Marcus.
• Sommario/riassunto: The archaeological sites of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula are among the most visited ancient cities of the Americas. Archaeologists have recently made great advances in our understanding of the social and political milieu of the northern Maya lowlands. However, such advances have been under-represented in both scholarly and popular literature until now. The Ancient Maya of Mexico presents the results of new and important archaeological, epigraphic, and art historical research in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. Ranging across the Middle Preclassic to the Modern periods, the volume explores how new archaeological data has transformed our understanding of Maya history. The Ancient Maya of Mexico will be invaluable to students and scholars of archaeology and anthropology, and all those interested in the society, rituals and economic organisation of the Maya region.
• Titolo autorizzato: The ancient Maya of Mexico
• ISBN: 1-317-54359-9; 1-84465-878-3; 1-138-92677-9; 1-315-72866-4; 1-317-54360-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787932203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Approaches to anthropological archaeology.