Golden / Borgstede Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology

Perspectives at the Millennium
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-94606-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 334 Seiten

This book presents the current state of Maya archaeology by focusing on the history of the field for the last 100 years, present day research, and forward looking prescription for the direction of the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Golden, Charles

Borgstede, Greg

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors
Part 1: Introductory
1. Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology: An Introduction, Charles W. Golden and Greg Borgstede
2. Looking Backward and Looking Forward: How Maya Studies of Yesterday Shape Today, Jeremy A. Sabloff
Part 2: Reconstruction of the Social, Political and Ideological
3. Kingship and Polity: Conceptualizing the Maya Body Politic, Robert J. Sharer and Charles W. Golden
4. The Blind Spot: Where the Elite and Non-Elite Meet, Marcella A. Canuto and William L. Fash, Jr.
5. History in the Future: Historical Data and Investigations in Lowland Maya Studies, Prudence Rice and Don Rice
6. Ancient Maya Landscapes, Wendy Ashmore
Part 3: Textual and Material Analysis
7. Maya Epigraphy at the Millennium: Personal Notes, Stephen D. Houston and Alfonso Lacadena García-Gallo
8. Noxious or Nurturing Nature? Maya Civilization in Environmental Context, Nicholas P. Dunning and Timothy Beach
9. The Past and Future of Maya Ceramic Studies, Antonia Foias
10. Lithic Analysis in the Maya Region, Geoffrey E. Braswell
11. Osteological Investigations of Ancient Maya Lives, Lori E.Wright
12. Maya Zooachaeology: In Pursuit of Social Variability and Environmental Heterogeneity, Kitty F. Emery
13. What Did They Do and Where? Activity Areas and Residue Analysis in Maya Archaeology, Daniela Triadan and Takeshi Inomata
Part 4: Contemporary Concerns
14. Professional Archaeology and the Modern Maya: A Historical Sketch, Jason Yaeger and Greg Borgstede
15. We Have Never Been Postmodern: Maya Archaeology in the Ethnographic Present, K. Anne Pyburn
16. The Sacred Place in the Development of Archaeology in Guatemala: An Analysis, Matilde Ivic de Monterroso
Part 5: Conclusion
17. Maya Archaeology at the Millennium: An Overview, T. Patrick Culbert
Index