Pathways to Complexity : A View from the Maya Lowlands

M Kathryn Brown

ISBN 10: 0813054842 / ISBN 13: 9780813054841

Edité par Longleaf Services On Behalf Of U Of Florida Press Mär 2018, 2018

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Neuware - This book provides a new understanding on the rise of Maya civilization, pushing back the origins of social, religious and economic complexity hundreds of years earlier than traditionally thought.

N° de réf. du vendeur 9780813054841

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• Titre: Pathways to Complexity : A View from the Maya Lowlands
• Éditeur: Longleaf Services On Behalf Of U Of Florida Press Mär 2018
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0813054842
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780813054841
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 241 L x 161 H x 40 P (en millimètres) 241 millimètres de largeur par 161 millimètres de hauteur par 40 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 899 grammes

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Synopsis

Pathways to Complexity synthesizes a wealth of new archaeological data to illuminate the origins of Maya civilization and the rise of Classic Maya culture. In this volume, prominent Maya scholars argue that the development of social, religious, and economic complexity began during the Middle Preclassic period (1000-300 BC), hundreds of years earlier than previously thought.

p>Contributors reveal that villages were present in parts of the lowlands by 1000 BC. Combining recent discoveries from the northern lowlands--an area often neglected in other volumes--and the southern lowlands, the collection then traces the emergence of sociopolitical inequality and complexity in all parts of the Yucatán Peninsula over the course of the Middle Preclassic period. They show that communities evolved in different ways due to influences such as geographical location, ceramic exchange, shell ornament production, agricultural strategy, religious ritual, ideology, and social rankings. These varied pathways to complexity developed over half a millennium and culminated in the institution of kingship by the Late Preclassic period.

Presenting exciting work on a dynamic and poorly understood time period, Pathways to Complexity demonstrates the importance of a broad, comparative approach to understanding Preclassic Maya civilization and will serve as a foundation for future research and interpretation.

A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase Contributors: M. Kathryn Brown George Bey III Tara Bond-Freeman Fernando Robles Castellanos Tomas Gallareta Negron E. Wyllys Andrews V Anthony Andrews David S. Anderson Lauren Sullivan Jaime J. Awe James F. Garber Mary Jane Acuña William Saturno Bobbi Hohmann Terry Powis Paul Healy Richard Hansen Donald W. Forsyth David Freidel Barbara Arroyo Richard E. W. Adams

À propos des auteurs

M. Kathryn Brown, Lutcher Brown Endowed Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio, is coeditor of Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare and A Forest of History: The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship.

George J. Bey III, Chisholm Foundation Chair in Arts and Sciences at Millsaps College, is coeditor of Pottery Economics in Mesoamerica.