ISBN:
0-85255-939-9
,
978-0-85255-939-0
,
0-85255-934-8 /Hb.
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978-0-85255-934-5 /Hb.
,
1-930618-22-0
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978-1-930618-22-0
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1-930618-21-2 /Hb.
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978-1-930618-21-3 /Hb.
Language:
English
Pages:
XXIV, 419 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [61]
Keywords:
Maya König
;
Widerstand
;
Handel
;
Staatsoberhaupt
;
Stadtplanung
;
Guatemala
;
Soziales Leben
;
Archäologie, soziale
Abstract:
New insights from the Tikal excavations and epigraphic breakthroughs suggest that a thriving marketplace existed in the center of the city, that foreigners comprised a significant element of its populace, and that differences in tomb form and contents signal the changing fortunes of Tikal`s rulers. Essay topics include the timing of the foundation of the Tikal dynasty, the earliest experiments in socio-political complexity, the 6th-7th century hiatus in monument erection, the reassertion of central authority around A.D. 700, and the complex causality behind the collapse and depopulation during the 9th century. Featuring some of the premiere specialists in the field as well as innovative new scholars, this volume promises to shape Tikal`s interpretations and research agenda for decades to come. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Tikal chronology -- In line of the founder : a view of dynastic politics at Tikal / Simon Martin; The ceramics of Tikal / T. Patrick Culbert; Beyond the catalog : the chronology and contexts of Tikal artifacts / Hattula Moholy-Nagy; Settlement, society, and demography at Tikal / William A. Haviland; The peripheries of Tikal / Robert E. Fry; The central acropolis of Tikal / Peter D. Harrison; The Tikal renaissance and the East Plaza ball court / Christopher Jones; The north acropolis : monumentality, function, and architectural development / H. Stanley Loten; Plaza plans at Tikal : a research strategy for inferring social organization and processes of culture change at lowland Maya sites / Marshall Joseph Becker; Thirty years later : some results of recent investigations in Tikal / Juan Pedro Laporte; Tikal and the Copan dynastic founding / Robert J. Sharer -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 355-402"School of American Research advanced seminar Changing Perspectives on Tikal and the Development of Ancient Maya Civilization, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 1999" (letzte Seite)Enthält 11 Beiträge
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