Pathways to complexity : a view from the Maya lowlands /

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Imprint:Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2018.
©2018
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Maya studies
Maya studies.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12018660
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Other authors / contributors:Brown, M. Kathryn, 1965- editor.
Bey, George J., editor.
Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953- writer of foreword.
Chase, Diane Z., writer of foreword.
ISBN:9780813052984
081305298X
9780813054841
0813054842
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Pathways to complexity. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2018 9780813054841
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
  • Introduction / M. Kathryn Bey and George J. Bey III
  • The Paleo-American and Archaic periods in Yucatan / Anthony P. Andrews and Fernando Robles Castellanos
  • The Cunil Complex: early villages in Belize / Lauren Sullivan, Jaime Awe, and M. Kathryn Brown
  • The earliest ceramics of the northern Maya lowlands / E. Wyllys Andrews V, George J. Bey III, Christopher Gunn
  • The role of ideology, religion, and ritual in the foundation of social complexity in the Belize River Valley / M. Kathryn Brown, Jaime J. Awe, and James F. Garber
  • Middle preclassic Maya shell ornament production: implications for the development of complexity at Pacbitun, Belize / Bobbi Hohmann, Terry Powis and Paul Healy
  • Developmental dynamics, energetics, and complex economic interactions of the early Maya of the Mirador-Calakmul Basin, Guatemala and Campeche, Mexico / Richard D. Hansen, Donald W. Forsyth, James C. Woods, Thomas Schreiner, and Gene L. Titmus
  • The preclassic settlement of northwest Yucatan: recharting the pathway to complexity / David S. Anderson, Fernando Robles Castellanos, and Anthony P. Andrews
  • The genesis of Maya complexity in the northwestern region of the Yucatan Penisula / Fernando Robles Castellanos and Teresa Ceballos Gallareta
  • The preclassic period: a view of complexity in the residential settlement of Ek Balam / Tara Bond-Freeman
  • At the foot of the hills: early monumentality at Xocnaceh, Yucatan, Mexico / Tomás Gallareta Negrón
  • El Achiotal: an interior frontier center in the northwestern Pet¿n, Guatemala / Mary Jane Acuña
  • Changing stages: royal legitimacy and the architectural development of the pinturas complex at San Bartolo, Guatemala / William Saturno, Franco Rossi, and Boris Beltrán
  • Naranjo, Guatemala, a middle preclassic site in the central highlands of Guatemala / Barbara Arroyo
  • Maya and the idea of empire / David Freidel
  • Conclusion: charting the pathways to complexity in the Maya lowlands / M. Kathryn Brown and George J. Bey III.