| Description |
xix, 437 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Ancient Maya and their Central American neighbors / Geoffrey E. Braswell -- Part I. El Salvador and Honduras. 2. Practices of spatial discourse at Quelepa / Wendy Ashmore ; 3. Ancient Quelepa, colonial San Miguel : shifting cultural frontiers and rogue colonialism in eastern El Salvador / Kathryn Sampeck ; 4. Shifting fortunes and affiliations on the edge of ruin : a ceramic perspective on the Classic Maya collapse and its aftermath at Copan / Cassandra R. Bill -- Part II. Highlands of Guatemala. 5. Other Preclassic Maya : interaction, growth, and depopulation in the eastern Kaqchikel highlands / Geoffrey E. Braswell and Eugenia J. Robinson ; 6. Other Late Classic Maya : regionalization, defense, and boundaries in the central Guatemalan highlands / Eugenia J. Robinson -- Part III. Southern Maya lowlands. 7. A tangled web : ceramic adoption in the Maya lowlands and community interaction in the early Middle Preclassic as seen in the K'awil complex from Holmul, Peten, Guatemala / Niña Neivens de Estrada ; 8. Royal port of Cancuen and the role of long-distance exchange in the apogee of Maya civilization / Arthur A. Demarest ; 9. Real/fictive lords/vessels : a list of MARI lords on the newly discovered Andrews Coffee Mug / Markus Eberl -- Part IV. Eastern periphery of Belize. 10. Dynastic history and archaeology of Pusilha, Belize / Christian M. Prager, Beniamino Volta, and Geoffrey E. Braswell ; 11. Follow the leader : Fine Orange pottery systems in the Maya lowlands / James J. Aimers -- Part V. Yucatan. 12. Role and realities of popol nahs in northern Maya archaeology / George J. Bey III and Rossana May Ciau ; 13. Alternative narratives and missing data : refining the chronology of Chichen Itza / Beniamino Volta and Geoffrey E. Braswell -- Part VI. Before and beyond : a comparative perspective. 14. Peer-polity interaction in the Norte Chico, Peru, 3000-1800 BC / Winifred Creamer, Jonathan Haas, and Allen Rutherford. |
| Summary |
"The ancient Maya created one of the most studied and best-known civilizations of the Americas. Nevertheless, Maya civilization is often considered either within a vacuum, by sub-region and according to modern political borders, or with reference to the most important urban civilizations of central Mexico. Seldom if ever are the Maya and their Central American neighbors of El Salvador and Honduras considered together, despite the fact that they engaged in mutually beneficial trade, intermarried, and sometimes made war on each other. The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors seeks to fill this lacuna by presenting original research on the archaeology of the whole of the Maya area (from Yucatan to the Maya highlands of Guatemala), western Honduras, and El Salvador." -- Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Maya pottery.
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Maya pottery. |
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Maya architecture.
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Maya architecture. |
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Inscriptions, Mayan.
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Inscriptions, Mayan. |
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Mayas -- Antiquities.
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Mayas -- Antiquities. |
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Mexico -- Antiquities.
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Mexico. |
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Antiquities. |
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Central America -- Antiquities.
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Central America. |
| Added Author |
Braswell, Geoffrey E., editor.
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| ISBN |
0415744865 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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0415744873 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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9780415744867 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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9780415744874 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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9781315798288 (ebook) |
| Standard No. |
40023903403 |
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