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Examining changes to the institution of divine kingship from 750 to
950 CE in the Maya lowland cities, Maya Kingship presents a new way
of studying the collapse of that civilization and the
transformation of political systems between the Terminal Classic
and Postclassic Periods.Leading experts in Maya studies offer
insights into the breakdown of kingship regimes, as well as the
gradual urban collapse and settlement relocations that followed.
The volume illuminates historical factors and actions that led to
the end of the institution across kingdoms and the mechanisms that
enabled societies to eventually recover with new political
structures. Contributors provide archaeological, iconographic,
epigraphic, and ethnohistorical perspectives, exploring datasets in
the spheres of warfare, social dynamics, economics, and
architecture. Unfolding with precision the chains of processes and
events that occurred during the ninth and tenth centuries in the
southern lowlands, and slightly later in the north, this volume
displays an original and ambitious historical approach central to
understanding one of the most radical political shifts to occur in
the pre-Columbian Americas.
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