| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Maya studies
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Maya studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase -- Introduction / M. Kathryn Bey and George J. Bey III -- The Paleo-American and Archaic periods in Yucatan / Anthony P. Andrews and Fernando Robles Castellanos -- The Cunil Complex: early villages in Belize / Lauren Sullivan, Jaime Awe, and M. Kathryn Brown -- The earliest ceramics of the northern Maya lowlands / E. Wyllys Andrews V, George J. Bey III, Christopher Gunn -- The role of ideology, religion, and ritual in the foundation of social complexity in the Belize River Valley / M. Kathryn Brown, Jaime J. Awe, and James F. Garber -- Middle preclassic Maya shell ornament production: implications for the development of complexity at Pacbitun, Belize / Bobbi Hohmann, Terry Powis and Paul Healy -- Developmental dynamics, energetics, and complex economic interactions of the early Maya of the Mirador-Calakmul Basin, Guatemala and Campeche, Mexico / Richard D. Hansen, Donald W. Forsyth, James C. Woods, Thomas Schreiner, and Gene L. Titmus -- The preclassic settlement of northwest Yucatan: recharting the pathway to complexity / David S. Anderson, Fernando Robles Castellanos, and Anthony P. Andrews -- The genesis of Maya complexity in the northwestern region of the Yucatan Penisula / Fernando Robles Castellanos and Teresa Ceballos Gallareta -- The preclassic period: a view of complexity in the residential settlement of Ek Balam / Tara Bond-Freeman -- At the foot of the hills: early monumentality at Xocnaceh, Yucatan, Mexico / Tomás Gallareta Negrón -- El Achiotal: an interior frontier center in the northwestern Pet¿n, Guatemala / Mary Jane Acuña -- Changing stages: royal legitimacy and the architectural development of the pinturas complex at San Bartolo, Guatemala / William Saturno, Franco Rossi, and Boris Beltrán -- Naranjo, Guatemala, a middle preclassic site in the central highlands of Guatemala / Barbara Arroyo -- Maya and the idea of empire / David Freidel -- Conclusion: charting the pathways to complexity in the Maya lowlands / M. Kathryn Brown and George J. Bey III. |
| Summary |
This book provides a new understanding on the rise of Maya civilization, pushing back the origins of social, religious and economic complexity hundreds of years earlier than traditionally thought. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mayas -- Antiquities.
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Mayas -- Antiquities. |
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Mayas -- History.
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Mayas. |
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History. |
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Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities.
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Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Brown, M. Kathryn, 1965- editor.
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Bey, George J., editor.
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Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953- writer of foreword.
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Chase, Diane Z., writer of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pathways to complexity. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2018 9780813054841 (DLC) 2017030477 (OCoLC)993623888 |
| ISBN |
9780813052984 (electronic book) |
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081305298X (electronic book) |
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9780813054841 |
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0813054842 |
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