The archaeology of settlement abandonment in Middle America / edited by Takeshi Inomata and Ronald W. Webb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Inomata, Takeshi, 1961-

Webb, Ronald W., 1960-

Series:

Foundations of archaeological inquiry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Antiquities.

Indigenous peoples.

Indians--Antiquities.

Urban Indigenous peoples--Latin America.

Urban Indigenous peoples.

Land settlement patterns--Latin America.

Land settlement patterns.

Ethnoarchaeology--Latin America.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Extinct cities--Latin America.

Extinct cities.

Latin America--Antiquities.

Latin America.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xv, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2003]

Contents:

1. Archaeological Studies of Abandonment in Middle America / Takeshi Inomata, Ronald W. Webb 1

I. Rapid Abandonment

2. From Episodic to Permanent Abandonment: Responses to Volcanic Hazards at Tetimpa, Puebla, Mexico / Patricia Plunket, Gabriela Urunuela 13

3. Xochicalco, Morelos: The Abandonment of Households at an Epiclassic Urban Center / Ronald W. Webb, Kenneth G. Hirth 29

4. War, Destruction, and Abandonment: The Fall of the Classic Maya Center of Aguateca, Guatemala / Takeshi Inomata 43

5. Volcanic Activity and Abandonment Processes: Ceren and the Zapotitan Valley of El Salvador / Brian R. McKee, Payson Sheets 61

II. Gradual Abandonment

6. A Place of Continued Importance: The Abandonment of Epiclassic La Quemada / Ben A. Nelson 77

7. The Abandonment of Teotihuacan / Linda Manzanilla 91

8. Monte Alban and Late Classic Site Abandonment in Highland Oaxaca / Marcus Winter 103

9. Social Status and Differential Processes of Abandonment at the Classic Maya Center of Dos Pilas, Peten, Guatemala / Joel W. Palka 121

10. The Tale End of Two Cities: Tikal, Yaxuna, and Abandonment Contexts in the Lowland Maya Archaeological Record / Charles Suhler, David Freidel 135

11. Abandonment and Nonabandonment at Baking Pot, Belize / James J. Aimers 149

III. Regional Approaches

12. The Tuxtlas as Volcanic Hazard: Volcanism and Its Effects on Site Founding and Abandonment in the Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico / Robert S. Santley 163

13. Push-Pull Archaeological Abandonment Behaviors in Lower Central America / Frederick W. Lange 181

14. Collapse and Abandonment in Middle America / William T. Sanders 193

15. A Consideration of Abandonment from Beyond Middle America / Catherine M. Cameron 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-241) and index.

ISBN:

0874807522

0874807530

OCLC:

51536349