The Maya world

by Ardren, Traci Hutson, Scott

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Title Statements

Full title :The Maya world / edited by Scott R. Hutson and Traci Ardren.

Summary

"The Maya World brings together over sixty authors, representing the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and ethnography, who explore cutting edge research on every major facet of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world. The Maya world, which covers Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador, contains over a hundred ruins that are open to tourism, eight of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and many thousands more that await investigation. In addition to captivating the lay public, the ancient Maya have attracted scores of major interdisciplinary research expeditions and hundreds of smaller projects going back to the 19th century, making them one of the best-known ancient cultures. The Maya World explores their renowned writing system, towering stone pyramids, exquisitely painted murals, and elaborate funerary tombs as well as their creative agricultural strategies, complex social, economic, and political relationships, widespread interactions with other societies, and remarkable cultural resilience in the face of historical ruptures. This is an invaluable reference volume for scholars of the ancient Maya, including archaeologists, historians and anthropologists"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

The Physical Object

Description:xxx, 888 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 26 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781138492837, 1138492833
oclc:on1140372273
LC Classification:F1435
Dewey Decimal:972.81

Introduction / Traci Ardren and Scott R. Hutson. Part I: Beginnings. Introduction to beginnings -- Archaic Maya matters / Jon C. Lohse -- Public architecture and the rise of complexity in the Middle Preclassic / M. Kathryn Brown and Travis W. Stanton -- The southern Maya Lowlands in the Late Preclassic / James Doyle -- The Late Preclassic Pacific slope / Julia Guernsey and Michael Love -- The Maya Highlands and the Late Preclassi c: Kaminaljuyu as a case study / Barbara Arroyo. Part II: Bodies. Introduction to Bodies -- Maya bioarchaeology / Vera Tiesler -- Graves, dead bodies, souls, and ancestors / Andrew K. Scherer -- Gender and sexuality / Traci Ardren -- Human-animal relations in the Maya World / Arianne Boileau, Nicolas Delsol, and Kitty F. Emery -- Favored plants of the Maya / Cameron L. McNeil -- Migration and mobility in the eastern Maya Lowlands / Carolyn Freiwald. Part III: Landscapes. Introduction to Landscapes -- Paleoecology, soil, and water in Maya history / Timothy Beach, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Nicholas Dunning, and Samantha Krause -- Settlement patterns / Thomas G. Garrison -- Ancient Maya ports, port facilities, and navigation / Anthony P. Andrews -- Ritual cave…

Subjects

Alltag Archäologie Architektur History Kultur Landwirtschaft Maya Mayas Mayas -- Antiquités Mayas -- Antiquities Mayas -- Civilisation Mayas -- Civilization Mayas -- Histoire Mayas -- History Mesoamerika Siedlung