The nature of an ancient Maya city : resources, interaction, and power at Blue Creek, Belize /
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| Author / Creator: | Guderjan, Thomas H. |
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| Imprint: | Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007. |
| Description: | x, 169 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6670555 |
| Summary: | Reveals what daily Maya life was like <br> <br> <br> <br> For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including monumental ceremonial structures, elite and non-elite residences, ditched agricultural fields, and residential clusters just outside the core. Since 1992, a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research team has intensively investigated Blue Creek in an integrated study of the dynamic structure and functional inter-relationships among the parts of a single Maya city. Documented in coverage by National Geographic , Archaeology magazine, and a documentary film aired on the Discovery Channel, Blue Creek is recognized as a unique site offering the full range of undisturbed architectural construction to reveal the mosaic that was the ancient city. Moving beyond the debate of what constitutes a city, Guderjan's long-term research reveals what daily Maya life was like.<br> <br> |
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| Physical Description: | x, 169 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-165) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817354268 0817354263 9780817315658 0817315659 |
