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The Maya World brings together over 60 authors, representing the
fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and
ethnography, who explore cutting-edge research on every major facet
of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world. The
Maya world, which covers Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Mexico,
Honduras, and El Salvador, contains over a hundred ancient sites
that are open to tourism, eight of which are UNESCO World Heritage
Sites, and many thousands more that have been dug or await
investigation. In addition to captivating the lay public, the
ancient Maya have attracted scores of major interdisciplinary
research expeditions and hundreds of smaller projects going back to
the 19th century, making them one of the best-known ancient
cultures. The Maya World explores their renowned writing system,
towering stone pyramids, exquisitely painted murals, and elaborate
funerary tombs as well as their creative agricultural strategies,
complex social, economic, and political relationships, widespread
interactions with other societies, and remarkable cultural
resilience in the face of historical ruptures. This is an
invaluable reference volume for scholars of the ancient Maya,
including archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists.
The Maya World brings together over 60 authors, representing the
fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and
ethnography, who explore cutting-edge research on every major facet
of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world. The
Maya world, which covers Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Mexico,
Honduras, and El Salvador, contains over a hundred ancient sites
that are open to tourism, eight of which are UNESCO World Heritage
Sites, and many thousands more that have been dug or await
investigation. In addition to captivating the lay public, the
ancient Maya have attracted scores of major interdisciplinary
research expeditions and hundreds of smaller projects going back to
the 19th century, making them one of the best-known ancient
cultures. The Maya World explores their renowned writing system,
towering stone pyramids, exquisitely painted murals, and elaborate
funerary tombs as well as their creative agricultural strategies,
complex social, economic, and political relationships, widespread
interactions with other societies, and remarkable cultural
resilience in the face of historical ruptures. This is an
invaluable reference volume for scholars of the ancient Maya,
including archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists.
Ancient cities were complex social, political, and economic
entities, but they also suffered from inequality, poor sanitation,
and disease-often more than rural areas. In The Ancient Urban Maya,
Scott Hutson examines ancient Maya cities and argues that, despite
the hazards of urban life, these places continued to lure people
for many centuries. With built forms that welcomed crowds,
neighborhoods that offered domestic comforts, marketplaces that
facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas, and the opportunities
to expand social networks and capital, the Maya used their cities
in familiar ways.
Ancient cities were complex social, political, and economic
entities, but they also suffered from inequality, poor sanitation,
and disease-often more than rural areas. In The Ancient Urban Maya,
Scott Hutson examines ancient Maya cities and argues that, despite
the hazards of urban life, these places continued to lure people
for many centuries. With built forms that welcomed crowds,
neighborhoods that offered domestic comforts, marketplaces that
facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas, and the opportunities
to expand social networks and capital, the Maya used their cities
in familiar ways.
Illustrations remain one of the fundamental tools of archaeology, a
means by which we share information and build ideas. Often treated
as if they were neutral representations, archaeological
illustrations are the convergence of science and the imagination.
This volume, a collection of fourteen essays addressing the visual
presentation of the Pre-Columbian past from the fifteenth century
to the present day, explores and contextualizes the visual culture
of archaeological illustration, addressing the intellectual history
of the field and the relationship of archaeological illustration to
other scientific disciplines and the fine arts.
Dwelling, Identity, and the Maya offers a new perspective on the
ancient Maya that emphasizes the importance of dwelling as a social
practice. Contrary to contemporary notions of the self as
individual and independent, the identities of the ancient Maya grew
from their everyday relations and interactions with other people,
the houses and temples they built, and the objects they created,
exchanged, cherished, and left behind. Using excavations of ancient
Chunchucmil as a case study, it investigates how Maya personhood
was structured and transformed in and beyond the domestic sphere
and examines the role of the past in the production of contemporary
Maya identity.
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