Motul de San José - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Motul de San José write by Antonia E Foias. This book was released on 2012-09-23. Motul de San José available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars have long debated the nature of Maya political organization during the Classic period (AD 250-950). Complex questions regarding political centralization, economic change, and the role of politics and economics in the rise and collapse of the civilization have been examined and reexamined from a variety of perspectives. Antonia Foias and Kitty Emery have assembled a broad collection of essays all focused on a single polity, that of Motul de San José. By presenting a coherent interdisciplinary body of archaeological and environmental data, the volume offers an intensely deep, focused investigation of the various models of the ancient Maya political and economic systems. Research conducted over six seasons of fieldwork reveals a more centralized political system than expected and uncovers the workings of the ancient economic structure. The contributors offer new details concerning how involved royals and nonroyal elites were in the politics of nearby states, as well as an extensive tribute system.
Motul de San José, Peten.Itza
Motul de San José, Peten.Itza - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Motul de San José, Peten.Itza write by Teobert Maler. This book was released on 1910. Motul de San José, Peten.Itza available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Motul de San José
Motul de San José - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Motul de San José write by Antonia E. Foias. This book was released on 2012. Motul de San José available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This volume is the first of its kind. A complex mosaic of how a relatively small Late Classic Maya polity was economically, socially, and politically organized. A must-read for all Maya scholars."--James F. Garber, editor of "The Ancient Maya of the Belize Valley" "The editors have assembled a remarkable array of evidence, including several innovative analytical methods. The product is a synthetic model that will shape how we understand and study Classic Maya political economy for the next several decades."--Jason Yaeger, editor of "Classic Maya Provincial Politics" Scholars have long debated the nature of Maya political organization during the Classic period (AD 250-950). Complex questions regarding political centralization, economic change, and the role of politics and economics in the rise and collapse of the civilization have been examined and reexamined from a variety of perspectives. Antonia Foias and Kitty Emery have assembled a broad collection of essays all focused on a single polity, that of Motul de San Jose.By presenting a coherent interdisciplinary body of archaeological and environmental data, the volume offers an intensely deep, focused investigation of the various models of the ancient Maya political and economic systems. Research conducted over six seasons of fieldwork reveals a more centralized political system than expected and uncovers the workings of the ancient economic structure. The contributors offer new details concerning how involved royals and nonroyal elites were in the politics of nearby states, as well as an extensive tribute system. Antonia E. Foias is professor of anthropology at Williams College. Kitty F. Emery is associate curator of the Florida Museum of Natural History and associate professor at the University of Florida."" "A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase"
Materiality, Bodies, and Practice
Materiality, Bodies, and Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Materiality, Bodies, and Practice write by Christina T. Halperin. This book was released on 2008. Materiality, Bodies, and Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context
The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context write by Gyles Iannone. This book was released on 2014-03-15. The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic “collapses,” including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750–1050), were not caused solely by climate change–related droughts but by a combination of other social, political, and environmental factors. New and senior scholars of archaeology and environmental science explore the timing and intensity of droughts and provide a nuanced understanding of socio-ecological dynamics, with specific reference to what makes communities resilient or vulnerable when faced with environmental change.Contributors recognize the existence of four droughts that correlate with periods of demographic and political decline and identify a variety of concurrent political and social issues. They argue that these primary underlying factors were exacerbated by drought conditions and ultimately led to societal transitions that were by no means uniform across various sites and subregions. They also deconstruct the concept of “collapse” itself—although the line of Maya kings ended with the Terminal Classic collapse, the Maya people and their civilization survived. The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context offers new insights into the complicated series of events that impacted the decline of Maya civilization. This significant contribution to our increasingly comprehensive understanding of ancient Maya culture will be of interest to students and scholars of archaeology, anthropology, geography, and environmental studies.
