Author: Nicholas P. DunningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Lords of the Hills
Author: Nicholas P. DunningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns
Author: Evon Zartman VogtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Ancient Maya Settlement of the Yalahau Region
Author: Bethany MorrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mayas
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Prehistoric Lowland Maya Community and Social Organization
Author: Edward B. KurjackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Prehistoric Maya Settlement
Author: Prentice M. ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Becan Site (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Prehistoric Maya Settlement, Procurement, and Exchange on the Coast and Cays of Southern Belize
Author: J. Jefferson MacKinnonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human settlements
Languages : en
Pages : 1462
Book Description
Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns
Author: Wendy AshmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Ancient Maya Life in the Far West Bajo
Author: Julie L. KunenPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816549400
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Human activity during centuries of occupation significantly altered the landscape inhabited by the ancient Maya of northwestern Belize. In response, the Maya developed new techniques to harvest the natural resources of their surroundings, investing increased labor and raw materials into maintaining and even improving their ways of life. In this lively story of life in the wetlands on the outskirts of the major site of La Milpa, Julie Kunen documents a hitherto unrecognized form of intensive agriculture in the Maya lowlands—one that relied on the construction of terraces and berms to trap soil and moisture around the margins of low-lying depressions called bajos. She traces the intertwined histories of residential settlements on nearby hills and ridges and agricultural terraces and other farming-related features around the margins of the bajo as they developed from the Late Preclassic perios (400 BC-AD 250) until the area's abandonment in the Terminal Classic period (about AD 850). Kunen examines the organization of three bajo communities with respect to the use and management of resources critical to agricultural production. She argues that differences in access to spatially variable natural resources resulted in highly patterned settlement remains and that community founders and their descendents who had acquired the best quality and most diverse set of resources maintained an elevated status in the society. The thorough integration of three lines of evidence—the settlement system, the agricultural system, and the ancient environment—breaks new ground in landscape research and in the study of Maya non-elite domestic organization. Kunen reports on the history of settlement and farming in a small corner of the Maya world but demonstrates that for any study of human-environment interactions, landscape history consists equally of ecological and cultural strands of influence.
Perspectives on Ancient Maya Rural Complexity
Author: Samuel V. ConnellPublisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN: 1938770803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Settlement archaeology in the Maya area has focused much of its attention on the polar extremes of the settlement continuum. As a result of this urban/rural bias, a whole range of complex rural settlements remain under-explored. The chapters in this volume highlight the variable quality of these "middle level settlements".
Coba
Author: William J. FolanPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483296679
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Coba