The Maya World

ISBN-13: 9781138492837 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 888 str.

Scott R. Hudson; Traci Arden

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction; Part I: Beginnings; Introduction to Beginnings; Chapter 2: Archaic Maya Matters; Chapter 3: Public Architecture and the Rise of Complexity in the Middle Preclassic; Chapter 4: The Southern Maya Lowlands in the Late Preclassic; Chapter 5: The Late Preclassic Pacific Slope; Chapter 6: The Maya Highlands and the Late Preclassic: Kaminaljuyu as a Case Study; Part II: Bodies; Introduction to Bodies; Chapter 7: Maya Bioarchaeology; Chapter 8: Graves, Dead Bodies, Souls, and Ancestors; Chapter 9: Gender and Sexuality; Chapter 10: Human-Animal Relations in the Maya World; Chapter 11: Favored Plants of the Maya; Chapter 12: Migration and Mobility in the Eastern Maya Lowlands; Part III: Landscapes; Introduction to Landscapes; Chapter 13 Paleoecology, Soil, and Water in Maya History; Chapter 14 Settlement Patterns; Chapter 15 Ancient Maya Ports, Port Facilities, and Navigation; Chapter 16 Cave Use Among the Ancient Maya; Chapter 17 Ancient Maya Rurality: Old Assumptions, Current Research and New Directions; Chapter 18 Lakamha: the place of "Big Waters": The archaeology of the ancient city of Palenque, Mexico; Chapter 19 The Maya City of Caracol, Belize: The Integration of an Anthropogenic Landscape; Chapter 20: Ek’ Balam: A Maya City In The Urban Landscape of Yucatan; Part IV: Relations; Introduction to Relations; Chapter 21 Household Archaeology of the Classic Period Lowland Maya; Chapter 22 Inequality and social groups; Chapter 23 Maya Relations with the Material World; Chapter 24 Maya Commerce; Chapter 25 Classic Maya Geopolitics; Chapter 26 The Politics of Conflict: War before and beyond the State in Maya Society; Part V: Production; Introduction to Production; Chapter 27: Ancient Maya Agriculture; Chapter 28: The Maya Forest: A Domesticated Landscape; Chapter 29: The Complexity of Ancient Maya Craft Production; Chapter 30: Animating Materials: The Sculpted Forms of the Ancient Maya World; Chapter 31: Maya Mural Painting; Chapter 32: Recent Developments in Maya Epigraphic Research; Chapter 33: Maya Time; Chapter 34: Maya Rites, Rituals, and Ceremonies; Part VI: Interactions; Introduction to Interactions; Chapter 35: Olmecs and Other Western Neighbors; Chapter 36: Interactions between Ancient Teotihuacan and the Maya World; Chapter 37: Southeast Mesoamerica; Chapter 38: Classic and Postclassic Peoples of the Pacific Coast; Chapter 39: The Northern Maya Tollans; Part VII: Resilience, Legacies, and Transformations; Introduction to Resilience, Legacies, and Transformations; Chapter 40: Collapse, Transformation, Reorganization: The Terminal Classic Transition in the Maya World; Chapter 41: The Structures of Everyday Life in the Postclassic Urban Setting of Mayapan; Chapter 42: Colonial Entanglements at Tahcabo, Yucatán; Chapter 43: The Archaeology of Henequen Haciendas: San Pedro Cholul as a Case Study; Chapter 44: Lacandon Maya Culture: Continuity and Change