The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize

ISBN-13: 9780817354268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 182 str.

Thomas H. Guderjan

Opis

< div> For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height.& nbsp; Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including monumental ceremonial structures, elite and non-elite residences, ditched agricultural fields, and residential clusters just outside the core.& nbsp; Since 1992, a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research team has intensively investigated Blue Creek in an integrated study of the dynamic structure and functional inter-relationships among the parts of a single Maya city. Documented in coverage by < i> National Geographic< /i> , < i> Archaeology< /i> magazine, and a documentary film aired on the Discovery Channel, Blue Creek is recognized as a unique site offering the full range of undisturbed architectural construction to reveal the mosaic that was the ancient city. Moving beyond the debate of what constitutes a city, Guderjan& rsquo; s long-term research reveals what daily Maya life was like. < /div>