Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Jacksonville DistrictPublisher:
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Category : Kissimmee River (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Draft Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Impact Statement
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Jacksonville DistrictPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kissimmee River (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Cemetery Internment
Author: George CollisonPublisher:
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Category : Burial
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation
Author: Who's who of Women Executives, 1989-1990
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780940863187
Category : Executives
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Ancient Maya Cities of the Eastern Lowlands
Author: Brett A. HoukPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813059747
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
"Brings together for the first time all the major sites of this part of the Maya world and helps us understand how the ancient Maya planned and built their beautiful cities. It will become both a handbook and a source of ideas for other archaeologists for years to come."--George J. Bey III, coeditor of Pottery Economics in Mesoamerica "Skillfully integrates the social histories of urban development."--Vernon L. Scarborough, author of The Flow of Power: Ancient Water Systems and Landscapes "Any scholar interested in urban planning and the built environment will find this book engaging and useful."--Lisa J. Lucero, author of Water and Ritual For more than a century researchers have studied Maya ruins, and sites like Tikal, Palenque, Copán, and Chichén Itzá have shaped our understanding of the Maya. Yet cities of the eastern lowlands of Belize, an area that was home to a rich urban tradition that persisted and evolved for almost 2,000 years, are treated as peripheral to these great Classic period sites. The hot and humid climate and dense forests are inhospitable and make preservation of the ruins difficult, but this oft-ignored area reveals much about Maya urbanism and culture. Using data collected from different sites throughout the lowlands, including the Vaca Plateau and the Belize River Valley, Brett Houk presents the first synthesis of these unique ruins and discusses methods for mapping and excavating them. Considering the sites through the analytical lenses of the built environment and ancient urban planning, Houk vividly reconstructs their political history, considers how they fit into the larger political landscape of the Classic Maya, and examines what they tell us about Maya city building.
Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings
Author: Gyles IannonePublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813063809
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and destruction of monuments and even violent death. This is the first comprehensive volume to focus on the varied responses to the failure of Classic period dynasties in the southern lowlands. The contributors offer new insights into the Maya "collapse," evaluating the trope of the scapegoat king and the demise of the traditional institution of kingship in the early ninth century AD--a time of intense environmental, economic, social, political, and even ideological change. A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Indians of the Upper Texas Coast
Author: Lawrence E. AtenPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
America's highways, 1776-1976
Author: United States. Federal Highway AdministrationPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication
Author: National Aeronautics AdministrationPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781501081729
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence. These scholars are grappling with some of the enormous challenges that will face humanity if an information-rich signal emanating from another world is detected. By drawing on issues at the core of contemporary archaeology and anthropology, we can be much better prepared for contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, should that day ever come.