3,000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands (eBook, PDF)

Identity, Politics, and Violence
Redaktion: Braswell, Geoffrey E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

3,000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands presents the cutting-edge research of 25 authors in the fields of archaeology, biological anthropology, art history, ethnohistory, and epigraphy. Together, they explore issues central to ancient Maya identity, political history, and warfare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351267991
• Artikelnr.: 63664443

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey E. Braswell is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. Among his numerous works are The Maya and Teotihuacan, The Ancient Maya of Mexico, and The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Identity, Politics, & Violence: An Introduction to 3,000 Years of War
and Peace in the Maya Lowlands; 2. Identity and power of the earliest Maya:
Preclassic architecture and cultural development of Nakum and Yaxha, Peten,
Guatemala; 3. Migration and Conflict, or Emulation and Interaction? The
Belize Valley during the Middle Preclassic; 4. Southern Belize from
Paleoindian to Preclassic Times: Introduction to the Region, Early Origins,
and Identity; 5. The Southern Belize Region in Early to Late Classic Period
Mesoamerica: First Settlement, Nim li Punit, and Uxbenka; 6. The Southern
Belize Region in Late to Terminal Classic Period Mesoamerica: Pusilha,
Lubaantun, and Identity; 7. Queens and Statecraft: Royal Women in the Heart
of the Fire Shrine at El Perú-Waka'; 8. Architecture as a Material
Representation of Sociopolitical Structure: An Analysis of Lowland Maya
Palace Complexes in the Late Eighth Century; 9. As the B'ak'tun Turned:
Reconstructing Classic to Postclassic Population Dynamics in the Belize
River Valley; 10. Dzehkabtun: Crisis and Violence in the Terminal Classic;
11. Foreign Encounters: Warfare, Trade, and Status at Chichen Itza; 12. The
Sustenance Providers: War, Sacrifice, and the Origin of People in Ancient
Mesoamerica; 13. Power and Politics on the Late Colonial Frontier of
British Honduras