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Author Doyle, James A., 1983- author.

Title Architecture and the origins of preclassic Maya politics / James Doyle, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Publication Info. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 170 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary This book examines the emergence of political institutions in Maya civilization through studies of landscape, architecture and material culture.
"Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics highlights the dramatic changes in the relationship of ancient Maya peoples to the landscape and to each other in the Preclassical period (ca. 2000 BC-250 AD). Offering a comprehensive history of Preclassic Maya society, James Doyle focuses on recent discoveries of early writing, mural painting, stone monuments, and evidence of divine kingship that have reshaped our understanding of cultural developments in the first millennium BC. He also addresses one of the crucial concerns of contemporary archaeology: the emergence of political authorities and their subjects in early complex polities. Doyle shows how architectural trends in the Maya Lowlands in the Preclassic period exhibit the widespread cross-cultural link between monumental architecture of imposing intent, human collaboration, and urbanism"-- Provided by publisher.
"The study of ancient politics is a messy endeavor. The basic questions are not the problems: how did past societies organize themselves, and how and why did those organizational strategies succeed or fail? Yet archaeologists can only glean social choices and cultural meanings from materials, architecture, and by identifying where people built their lives. Acknowledging the inherent challenges we face to understand fully how ancient peoples conceived and narrated their own beliefs, this book puts forth a new take on an old story to understand how political authorities emerged"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Setting -- Mesoamerican and Maya monumentality, identity, and politics -- Middle Preclassic Maya E-group plazas : distribution and geopolitics 800-300 BC -- The architecture and spaces of the early Ajaw, c. 300-1 BC -- Migration and abandonment -- The Preclassic big picture.
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Subject Maya architecture.
Maya architecture.
Mayas -- Politics and government.
Mayas -- Politics and government.
Mayas -- Antiquities.
Mayas -- Antiquities.
Architecture -- Political aspects -- Mexico -- History -- To 1500.
Architecture -- Political aspects.
Mexico.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Architecture.
Architecture -- Political aspects -- Central America -- History -- To 1500.
Central America.
Landscape archaeology -- Mexico.
Landscape archaeology.
Landscape archaeology -- Central America.
Social archaeology -- Mexico.
Social archaeology.
Social archaeology -- Central America.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Doyle, James A., 1983- Architecture and the origins of preclassic Maya politics. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017 9781107145375 (DLC) 2016031779 (OCoLC)960762224
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