Ancient Maya pottery : classification, analysis, and interpretation / edited by James John Aimers ; foreword by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aimers, James J.

Chase, Diane Z.

Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953-

Series:

Maya studies.

Maya studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maya pottery--Classification.

Maya pottery.

Mayas--Antiquities.

Mayas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A volume of classification, interpretation, and analysis of Maya pottery using the type: variety-mode approach, exploring how communities in the region interacted through the lens of ceramic exchange.

Contents:

1. Introduction / James J. Aimers

2. Type-variety: what works and what doesn't / Prudence M. Rice

3. Types and traditions, spheres and systems: a consideration of analytic constructs and concepts in the

Classification and interpretation of Maya ceramics / Cassandra R. Bill

4. Interpreting form and context: ceramic subcomplexes at Caracol, Nohmul, and Santa Rita Corozal, Belize / Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase

5. Ceramic resemblances, trade, and emulation: changing utilitarian pottery traditions in the Maya Lowlands / Robert E. Fry

6. Type-variety on trial: experiments in classification and meaning using ceramic assemblages from Lamanai, Belize / James J. Aimers and Elizabeth Graham

7. Establishing the Cunil Ceramic Complex at Cahal Pech, Belize / Lauren A. Sullivan and Jaime J. Awe

8. Technological style and terminal preclassic orange ceramics in the Holmul Region, Guatemala / Michael G. Callaghan, Francisco Estrada-Belli, and Nina Neivens de Estrada

9. Acanmul, Becán, and the Xcocom phenomenon through a type-variety looking glass: resolving historical enigmas through hands-on typological assessments / Joseph Ball and Jennifer Taschek

10. Looking for times: how type-variety analysis helps us "see" the Early postclassic in Northwestern Honduras / Patricia A. Urban, Edward M. Schortman, and Marne T. Ausec

11. Slips, styles, and trading patterns: a postclassic perspective from Central Peten, Guatemala / Leslie G. Cecil

12. Mayapán's Chen Mul modeled effigy censers: iconography and archaeological context / Susan Milbrath and Carlos Peraza Lope

13. Problems and prospects in Maya ceramic classification, analysis, and interpretation / James J. Aimers.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-4348-4

0-8130-4257-7

OCLC:

818870268