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Author : Arthur Demarest
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521533902
Ancient Maya comes to life in this new holistic and theoretical study.
Author : David Webster
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500051139
Ancient Maya civilization thrived in the tropics of Central America for more than a thousand years and produced some of the world's finest architecture and art. Then it mysteriously vanished, leaving a landscape of ruins smothered by forests. The Classic Maya collapse is one of the great puzzles of history, ranking alongside the Fall of Rome as an enigma that has intrigued scholars for generations.
Author : David L. Webster,Nancy Gonlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000062469906
Author : Gyles Iannone,Brett A. Houk,Sonja A. Schwake
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813063805
Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and destruction of monuments and even violent death. This is the first comprehensive volume to focus on the varied responses to the failure of Classic period dynasties in the southern lowlands. The contributors offer new insights into the Maya "collapse," evaluating the trope of the scapegoat king and the demise of the traditional institution of kingship in the early ninth century AD--a time of intense environmental, economic, social, political, and even ideological change. A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141976969
From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future. What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors. 'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis 'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times
Author : Simon Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483889
With new readings of ancient texts, Ancient Maya Politics unlocks the long-enigmatic political system of the Classic Maya.
Author : Arthur Demarest
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521592240
In this new archaeological study, Arthur Demarest brings the lost pre-Columbian civilization of the Maya to life. In applying a holistic perspective to the most recent evidence from archaeology, paleoecology, and epigraphy, this theoretical interpretation emphasises both the brilliant rain forest adaptations of the ancient Maya and the Native American spirituality that permeated all aspects of their daily life. Demarest draws on his own discoveries and the findings of colleagues to reconstruct the complex lifeways and volatile political history of the Classic Maya states of the first to eighth centuries. He provides a new explanation of the long-standing mystery of the ninth-century abandonment of most of the great rain forest cities. Finally, he draws lessons from the history of the Classic Maya cities for contemporary society and for the ongoing struggles and resurgence of the modern Maya peoples, who are now re-emerging from six centuries of oppression.
Author : David L. Webster,AnnCorinne Freter,Nancy Gonlin
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028511603
Webster's case study reconstructs and evaluates the sociopolitical system and culture history of a world-famous Classic Maya Center in the highlands of Western Honduras, whose great temples, palaces, and carved monuments have been investigated since the 1830's. Using material from a series of archaeological excavations begun in 1975 that focused on reconstructing the entire Copán Kingdom, this book presents for the first time an interpretation of the political, demographic, and agricultural history of the entire region. Providing an extensive review of the methods used to reconstruct Copán's history, the book helps students develop a basic understanding of how archaeologists reconstruct ancient social systems.
Author : Markus Eberl
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813052090
"Offers a unique and important perspective on Classic Maya society through the lens of innovation. Eberl’s work is richly grounded in a multidisciplinary approach that weaves archaeological data with epigraphy, iconography, and comparative social theory."--Andrew K. Scherer, author of Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul "The first sustained account of innovation and creativity among the ancient Maya. A welcome addition."--Scott Hutson, author of The Ancient Urban Maya: Neighborhoods, Inequality, and Built Form Drawing on archaeological findings from the Maya lowlands, War Owl Falling shows how innovation and creativity led to social change in ancient societies. Markus Eberl discusses the ways eighth-century Maya (and Maya commoners in particular) reinvented objects and signs that were associated with nobility, including scepters, ceramic vessels, ballgame equipment, and the symbol of the owl. These inventions, he argues, reflect assertions of independence and a redistribution of power that contributed to the Maya collapse in the Late Classic period. Eberl emphasizes that individual decision-making--the ability to imagine alternate worlds and to act on that vision--plays a large role in changing social structure over time. Pinpointing where and when these Maya inventions emerged, how individuals adopted them and why, War Owl Falling connects technological and social change in a novel way.
Author : John S. Henderson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0801482844
Theirs was one of the few complex societies to emerge in and to adapt successfully to a tropical-forest environment. Their architecture, sculpture, and painting were sophisticated and compellingly beautiful.
Author : Arthur Andrew Demarest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Central America
ISBN : OCLC:1335734074
Author : Geoffrey E. Braswell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317543596
The archaeological sites of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula are among the most visited ancient cities of the Americas. Archaeologists have recently made great advances in our understanding of the social and political milieu of the northern Maya lowlands. However, such advances have been under-represented in both scholarly and popular literature until now. 'The Ancient Maya of Mexico' presents the results of new and important archaeological, epigraphic, and art historical research in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. Ranging across the Middle Preclassic to the Modern periods, the volume explores how new archaeological data has transformed our understanding of Maya history. 'The Ancient Maya of Mexico' will be invaluable to students and scholars of archaeology and anthropology, and all those interested in the society, rituals and economic organisation of the Maya region.
Author : Marilyn A. Masson,David A. Freidel
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0759100810
Ancient Maya Political Economies examines variation in systems of economic production and exchange and how these systems supported the power networks that integrated Maya society. Using models originally developed by William L. Rathje, the authors explore core-periphery relations, the use of household analysis to reconstruct political economy, and evidence for market development. In doing so, they challenge the conventional wisdom of decentralized Maya political authority and replace it with a more complex view of the political economic foundations of Maya civilization.
Author : Jeremy A. Sabloff
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466814448
Nowadays, archaeological investigators don't just dig up the past They use high-tech equipment, chemical analyses, sampling strategies, and other modern means to gain a better understanding of why and how cultures change. Using the study of the Maya as a test case, Jeremy Sabloff shows how the exciting transformation of archaeology is shedding new light on past civilizations.
Author : Carla McKinney Brenner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Central America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173014537720