Royal Courts Of The Ancient Maya: Volume 2: Data And Case Studies

History

Houston, Stephen D.

Inomata, Takeshi

Americas

Routledge

The Classic Maya (Cambridge World Archaeology)

In the first millennium AD, the Classic Maya created courtly societies in and around the Yucatan Peninsula that have left some of the most striking intellectual and aesthetic achievements of the ancient world, including large settlements like Tikal, Copan, and Palenque. This book is the first in-depth synthesis of the Classic Maya. It is richly informed by new decipherments of hieroglyphs and decades of intensive excavation and survey. Structured by categories of person in society, it reports on kings, queens, nobles, gods, and ancestors, as well as the many millions of farmers and other figures who lived in societies predicated on sacred kingship and varying political programs. The Classic Maya presents a tandem model of societies bound by moral covenants and convulsed by unavoidable tensions between groups, all affected by demographic trends and changing environments. Focusing on the Classic heartland but referring to other zones, it will serve as the basic source for all readers interested in the civilization of the Maya.

Cambridge University Press

This book provides theory, comparison, and synthesis to establish a carefully considered framework for approaching the study of courts and their functions throughout the world of the ancient Maya. It is based on the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.

Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya, Vol. 1: Theory, Comparison, and Synthesis

Perseus

This book discusses courts at specific centers and areas, presenting data from major research projects. It examines the beginning of the Copan dynasty and the possibility of its foreign origin. The book addresses the functions and meanings of thrones, referring to archaeological data from Uaxactun.

Royal Courts Of The Ancient Maya

This volume presents for the first time the detailed data and dramatic findings of Inomata's investigations of this Classic period second capital of the ancient Maya Petexbatun kingdom. As widely discussed in journals and the media, the autonomous Aguateca subproject of the Vanderbilt Petexbatun research recovered remarkable new evidence on the violent end of a great Maya center,. This monograph presents summaries and interpretations of the excavations and surveys, site maps, and recovered ceramics and artifacts, as well as a wide range of applied analyses of this data. The sprawling defensive fortifications of this center, its already formidable natural location, and its final destruction and burning represent one of the most remarkable sets of evidence of the collapse of a Classic Maya kingdom. Inomata presents the evidence on Aguateca and its sudden end, and the implications of his findings for theories of the end of Classic Maya civilization in the Petexbatun.VIMA Series #3

Warfare and the Fall of a Fortified Center: Archaeological Investigations at Aguateca (Vanderbilt Institute of Mesoamerican Archaeology Series)

Vanderbilt University Press

Book Plus CD. This volume is the supplement to Warfare and the Fall of a Fortified Center. It contains 10 folded large-format maps approximately 22 x 28 inches; a CD-rom containing data on architectural style and dimensions and data on artifacts, including their classification, dimensions, and other results of artifact analysis; and a 32-page 5 x 7 booklet that serves as a guide to the mapping and the CD-rom.VIMA Series #4

Settlements And Fortifications of Aguateca: Archaeological Maps of a Petexbatun Center (Vanderbilt Institute of Mesoamerican Archaeology)

Mesoamerican archaeologists have long been interested in the collapse of political systems or civilizations but have been slow to undertake detailed abandonment analyses of specific settlements. The Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment in Middle America explores some of the old questions in Middle American archaeology in light of the newer theoretical approach provided by abandonment studies. Unlike much of the abandonment work previously done in the American Southwest, a number of contributions to this volume examine relatively large population centers.Among the original contributions in this collection is the discovery that deposits resulting from termination rituals are more common than previously thought. Several chapters point out that structures and places can continue to serve ritual functions even after abandonment. Another finding is that the causes of abandonment—warfare, economic marginalization, or natural cataclysm—are likely to have varied effects on different social groups, which in turn sheds light on occupational histories in specific sites preceding major abandonments. 

Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment of Middle America (Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry)

Politics & Social Sciences

Webb, Ronald W.

Anthropology

University of Utah Press

Mesoamerican archaeologists have long been interested in the collapse of political systems or civilizations but have been slow to undertake detailed abandonment analyses of specific settlements. The Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment in Middle America explores some of the old questions in Middle American archaeology in light of the newer theoretical approach provided by abandonment studies. Unlike much of the abandonment work previously done in the American Southwest, a number of contributions to this volume examine relatively large population centers.Among the original contributions in this collection is the discovery that deposits resulting from termination rituals are more common than previously thought. Several chapters point out that structures and places can continue to serve ritual functions even after abandonment. Another finding is that the causes of abandonment—warfare, economic marginalization, or natural cataclysm—are likely to have varied effects on different social groups, which in turn sheds light on occupational histories in specific sites preceding major abandonments.

Archaeology Of Settlement Abandonment of Middle America (Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry)

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Royal Courts Of The Ancient Maya: Volume 2: Data And Case Studies

The Classic Maya (Cambridge World Archaeology)

The Classic Maya (Cambridge World Archaeology)

Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya, Vol. 1: Theory, Comparison, and Synthesis

Royal Courts Of The Ancient Maya

Warfare and the Fall of a Fortified Center: Archaeological Investigations at Aguateca (Vanderbilt Institute of Mesoamerican Archaeology Series)

Settlements And Fortifications of Aguateca: Archaeological Maps of a Petexbatun Center (Vanderbilt Institute of Mesoamerican Archaeology)

Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment of Middle America (Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry)

Archaeology Of Settlement Abandonment of Middle America (Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry)