White Roads of the Yucatán : Changing Social Landscapes of the Yucatec Maya /

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Author / Creator:	Shaw, Justine M., 1971-
Imprint:	Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2008. Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 226 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Mayas -- Commerce -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) Mayas -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- Antiquities. Maya roads -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) Mayas -- Commerce. Mayas -- Antiquities. Maya roads. Antiquities. Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Antiquities. Ichmul (Mexico) -- Antiquities. Yo'okop Site (Mexico) Mexico -- Yucatán (State) Mexico -- Yo'okop Site. Mexico -- Ichmul.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13460115

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Other authors / contributors:	Project Muse. distributor.
ISBN:	9780816526789 9780816548880 0816548889 0816526788 0816526788
Notes:	Description based on print version record.
Summary:	"In White Roads of the Yucatan, author Justine Shaw presents original field data collected with the Cochuah Regional Archaeological Survey at two ancient Maya sites, Ichmul and Yo'okop. Both centers chose to invest enormous resources in the construction of monumental roadways during a time of social and political turmoil in the Terminal Classic period. Shaw carefully examines why it was at this point - and no other - that the settlements made such a decision. She argues that both settlements used the sacbeob as a method of socially integrating the largest, most diverse and dispersed population in the Cochuah region. She further demonstrates that their use of the sacbeob, in concert with other innovative strategies, allowed Ichmul and Yo'okop to outlast many of the sites that they may have sought to emulate and to flourish during a time of tremendous sociopolitical and economic change."--Jacket.

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