Pathways to Complexity: A View from the Maya Lowlands

ISBN-13: 9780813068503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 526 str.

M. Kathryn Brown; George J. George

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• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Foreword
• Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
• 1. Introduction
• M. Kathryn Bey and George J. Bey III
• 2. The Paleo-American and Archaic Periods in Yucatan
• Anthony P. Andrews and Fernando Robles Castellanos
• 3. The Cunil Complex: Early Villages in Belize
• Lauren Sullivan, Jaime Awe, and M. Kathryn Brown
• 4. The Earliest Ceramics of the Northern Maya Lowlands
• E. Wyllys Andrews V, George J. Bey III, Christopher Gunn
• 5. 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
• 6. Middle Preclassic Maya Shell Ornament Production: Implications for the Development of Complexity at Pacbitun, Belize
• Bobbi Hohmann, Terry Powis and Paul Healy
• 7. 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
• 8. The Preclassic Settlement of Northwest Yucatan: Recharting the Pathway to Complexity
• David S. Anderson, Fernando Robles Castellanos, and Anthony P. Andrews
• 9. The Genesis of Maya Complexity in the Northwestern Region of the Yucatan Penisula
• Fernando Robles Castellanos and Teresa Ceballos Gallareta
• 10. The Preclassic Period: A View of Complexity in the Residential Settlement of Ek Balam
• Tara Bond-Freeman
• 11. At the Foot of the Hills: Early Monumentality at Xocnaceh, Yucatan, Mexico
• Tomás Gallareta Negrón
• 12. El Achiotal: An Interior Frontier Center in the Northwestern Petén, Guatemala
• Mary Jane Acuña
• 13. Changing Stages: Royal Legitimacy and the Architectural Development of the Pinturas Complex at San Bartolo, Guatemala
• William Saturno, Franco Rossi, and Boris Beltrán
• 14. Naranjo, Guatemala, A Middle Preclassic Site in the Central Highlands of Guatemala
• Barbara Arroyo
• 15. Maya and the Idea of Empire
• David Freidel
• 16. Conclusion: Charting the Pathways to Complexity in the Maya Lowlands
• M. Kathryn Brown and George J. Bey III
• References
• List of Contributors
• Index