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Once Beneath The Forest

Author : Bl Turner Ii
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000307498

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Once Beneath The Forest by Bl Turner Ii Pdf

My interest in ancient Maya agriculture began late in the year of 1971 when William M. Denevan encouraged me to pursue the topic. Our interests had been perked by reports from Joseph W. Ball, JaCk Eaton, and Irwin Rovner of the presence of terrace-like features throughout the Rio Bee region of the soutnern Yucatan Peninsula. Denevan maintained a long-term interest in pre-Hispanic agriculture and population in the New World. Our studies with the emerging Rio Bee research group at the University of Wisconsin led to the conclusion that the then dominant themes of Maya agriculture were in need of reevaluation and that a number of remains of intensive forms of agriculture were likely to be found in the Central Maya lowlands of Mexico, Peten (Guatemala), and Belize, particularly wetland or raised fields in addition to the reported terraces. Our interests were heightened at this time by notification from Alfred Siemens of the finds of wetland fields in the vicinity of the Rio Bee region in the Chetumal, Mexico-northern Belize area.

Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns

Author : Wendy Ashmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X000167359

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The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors

Author : Geoffrey E Braswell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317756088

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The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors by Geoffrey E Braswell Pdf

The ancient Maya created one of the most studied and best-known civilizations of the Americas. Nevertheless, Maya civilization is often considered either within a vacuum, by sub-region and according to modern political borders, or with reference to the most important urban civilizations of central Mexico. Seldom if ever are the Maya and their Central American neighbors of El Salvador and Honduras considered together, despite the fact that they engaged in mutually beneficial trade, intermarried, and sometimes made war on each other. The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors seeks to fill this lacuna by presenting original research on the archaeology of the whole of the Maya area (from Yucatan to the Maya highlands of Guatemala), western Honduras, and El Salvador. With a focus on settlement pattern analyses, architectural studies, and ceramic analyses, this ground breaking book provides a broad view of this important relationship allowing readers to understand ancient perceptions about the natural and built environment, the role of power, the construction of historical narrative, trade and exchange, multiethnic interaction in pluralistic frontier zones, the origins of settled agricultural life, and the nature of systemic collapse.

Encyclopedia of the Ancient Maya

Author : Walter R. T. Witschey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759122864

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Encyclopedia of the Ancient Maya by Walter R. T. Witschey Pdf

Encyclopedia of the Ancient Maya offers an A-to-Z overview of the ancient Maya culture from its inception around 3000 BC to the Spanish Conquest after AD 1600. Over two hundred entries written by more than sixty researchers explore subjects ranging from food, clothing, and shelter to the sophisticated calendar and now-deciphered Maya writing system. They bring special attention to environmental concerns and climate variation; fresh understandings of shifting power dynamics and dynasties; and the revelations from emerging field techniques (such as LiDAR remote sensing) and newly explored sites (such as La Corona, Tamchen, and Yaxnohkah). This one-volume reference is an essential companion for students studying ancient civilizations, as well as a perfect resource for those planning to visit the Maya area. Cross-referencing, topical and alphabetical lists of entries, and a comprehensive index help readers find relevant details. Suggestions for further reading conclude each entry, while sidebars profile historical figures who have shaped Maya research. Maps highlight terrain, archaeological sites, language distribution, and more; over fifty photographs complement the volume.

Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America

Author : Susan Toby Evans,David L. Webster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 0815308876

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Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America by Susan Toby Evans,David L. Webster Pdf

This reference is devoted to the pre-Columbian archaeology of the Mesoamerican culture area, one of the six cradles of early civilization. It features in-depth articles on the major cultural areas of ancient Mexico and Central America; coverage of important sites, including the world-renowned discoveries as well as many lesser-known locations; articles on day-to-day life of ancient peoples in these regions; and several bandw regional and site maps and photographs. Entries are arranged alphabetically and cover introductory archaeological facts (flora, fauna, human growth and development, nonorganic resources), chronologies of various periods (Paleoindian, Archaic, Formative, Classic and Postclassic, and Colonial), cultural features, Maya, regional summaries, research methods and resources, ethnohistorical methods and sources, and scholars and research history. Edited by archaeologists Evans and Webster, both of whom are associated with Pennsylvania State University. c. Book News Inc.

The Ancient Maya of Mexico

Author : Geoffrey E. Braswell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317543602

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The Ancient Maya of Mexico by Geoffrey E. Braswell Pdf

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.

Ancient Maya Commerce

Author : Scott R. Hutson
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607325550

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Ancient Maya Commerce by Scott R. Hutson Pdf

Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico—a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil is a rare example of a Maya city in which economics, not political rituals, served as the engine of growth. Trade was the raison d’être of the city itself. Using a variety of evidence—archaeological, botanical, geomorphological, and soil-based—contributors show how the city was a major center for both short- and long-distance trade, integrating the Guatemalan highlands, the Gulf of Mexico, and the interior of the northern Maya lowlands. By placing Chunchucmil into the broader context of emerging research at other Maya cities, the book reorients the understanding of ancient Maya economies. The book is accompanied by a highly detailed digital map that reveals the dense population of the city and the hundreds of streets its inhabitants constructed to make the city navigable, shifting the knowledge of urbanism among the ancient Maya. Ancient Maya Commerce is a pioneering, thoroughly documented case study of a premodern market center and makes a strong case for the importance of early market economies in the Maya region. It will be a valuable addition to the literature for Mayanists, Mesoamericanists, economic anthropologists, and environmental archaeologists. Contributors: Anthony P. Andrews, Traci Ardren, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Timothy Beach, Chelsea Blackmore, Tara Bond-Freeman, Bruce H. Dahlin, Patrice Farrell, David Hixson, Socorro Jimenez, Justin Lowry, Aline Magnoni, Eugenia Mansell, Daniel E. Mazeau, Travis Stanton, Ryan V. Sweetwood, Richard E. Terry

The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition

Author : Robert J. Sharer,Loa P. Traxler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804748179

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The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition by Robert J. Sharer,Loa P. Traxler Pdf

The rich findings of recent exploration and research are incorporated in this completely revised and greatly expanded sixth edition of this standard work on the Maya people. New field discoveries, new technical advances, new successes in the decipherment of Maya writing, and new theoretical perspectives on the Maya past have made this new edition necessary.

Highland-lowland Interaction in Mesoamerica

Author : Arthur G. Miller
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0884021173

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Ancient Mesoamerican Population History

Author : Adrian S.Z. Chase,Arlen F. Chase,Diane Z. Chase
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816553198

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Ancient Mesoamerican Population History by Adrian S.Z. Chase,Arlen F. Chase,Diane Z. Chase Pdf

Establishing ancient population numbers and determining how they were distributed across a landscape over time constitute two of the most pressing problems in archaeology. Accurate population data is crucial for modeling, interpreting, and understanding the past. Now, advances in both archaeology and technology have changed the way that such approximations can be achieved. Including research from both highland central Mexico and the tropical lowlands of the Maya and Olmec areas, this book reexamines the demography in ancient Mesoamerica. Contributors present methods for determining population estimates, field methods for settlement pattern studies to obtain demographic data, and new technologies such as LiDAR (light detecting and ranging) that have expanded views of the ground in forested areas. Contributions to this book provide a view of ancient landscape use and modification that was not possible in the twentieth century. This important new work provides new understandings of Mesoamerican urbanism, development, and changes over time. Contributors Traci Ardren M. Charlotte Arnauld Bárbara Arroyo Luke Auld-Thomas Marcello A. Canuto Adrian S. Z. Chase Arlen F. Chase Diane Z. Chase Elyse D. Z. Chase Javier Estrada Gary M. Feinman L. J. Gorenflo Julien Hiquet Scott R. Hutson Gerardo Jiménez Delgado Eva Lemonnier Rodrigo Liendo Stuardo José Lobo Javier López Mejía Michael L. Loughlin Deborah L. Nichols Christopher A. Pool Ian G. Robertson Jeremy A. Sabloff Travis W. Stanton

Effects of War on Society

Author : Giorgio Ausenda
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0851158684

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Effects of War on Society by Giorgio Ausenda Pdf

The conference 'Effects of War on Society' was the first in a series aimed at placing in perspective the sociocultural variables that make outbreaks of war probable, and identifying for policy-makers steps that can be taken to control these variables. The papers focus on analysis of historical thinking on war, anthropological analysis of the effects of war on societies at different levels of sociocultural integration, the expansion and decline of multi-ethnic states, and the wider effects of war -- political, economic and moral. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Making Ancient Cities

Author : Andrew Creekmore,Kevin D. Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107046528

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Making Ancient Cities by Andrew Creekmore,Kevin D. Fisher Pdf

Investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in shaping urbanism.

Biological Diversity

Author : Louise E. Buck,Charles C. Geisler,John Schelhas,Eva Wollenberg
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000611670

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Biological Diversity by Louise E. Buck,Charles C. Geisler,John Schelhas,Eva Wollenberg Pdf

We live in a world of wide pendulum swings regarding management policies for protected areas, particularly as they affect the involvement of local people in management. Such swings can be polarizing and halt on-the-ground progress. There is a need to find ways to protect biodiversity while creating common ground and building management capacity thr