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| ISBN: | 9780816548880
0816548889
9780816526789
0816526788
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-220) and index.
Print version record.
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| 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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| Other form: | Print version: Shaw, Justine M., 1971- White roads of the Yucatán. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2008 9780816526789
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