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Motul de San Jose : politics, history, and economy in a classic Maya polity / edited by Antonia E. Foias and Kitty F. Emery.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Maya studies.
- Maya studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mayas--Guatemala--Peten (Dept.)--Antiquities.
- Mayas.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Guatemala--Peten (Dept.).
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Peten (Guatemala : Dept.)--Antiquities.
- Peten (Guatemala : Dept.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (553 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Scholars have long debated the nature of Maya political organization during the Classic period (AD 250-950). Complex questions regarding political centralization, economic change, and the role of politics and economics in the rise and collapse of the civilization have been examined and reexamined from a variety of perspectives. Antonia Foias and Kitty Emery have assembled a broad collection of essays all focused on a single polity, that of Motul de San José. By presenting a coherent interdisciplinary body of archaeological and environmental data, the volume offers an intensely deep,
- Contents:
- Politics and economics: theoretical perspectives of the Motul de San Jose project / Antonia E. Foias and Kitty F. Emery
- Lords of windy water: the royal court of Motul de San Jose in classic Maya inscriptions / Alexander Tokovinine and Marc Zender
- Identity and interaction: ceramic styles and social history of the Ik Polity, Guatemala / Dorie Reents-Budet, Stanley Guenter, Ronald L. Bishop, and M. James Blackman
- Architecture, volumetrics, and social stratification at Motul de San Jose during the late and terminal classic / Antonia E. Foias, Christina T. Halperin, Elly Spensley, and Jeanette Castellanos
- Figurine economies at Motul de San Jose: multiple and shifting modes of valuation / Christina T. Halperin
- Motul de San Jose palace pottery production: reconstructions from wasters and debris / Christina T. Halperin and Antonia E. Foias
- History, politics, and ceramics: the ceramic sequence of Trinidad de Nosotros, El Peten, Guatemala / Matthew D. Moriarty
- Wealth, status, and stucco: micromorphology studies at La Trinidad, a secondary center in the Motul de San Jose periphery / Ellen Spensley
- Akte: small secondary center to the northeast of Motul de San Jose / Suzanna Yorgey and Matthew D. Moriarty
- Preliminary investigations in macro and microbotany at Motul de San Jose / Andrew Wyatt, David Jarzen, Lizzy Hare, and Kitty F. Emery
- Zooarchaeology of Motul de San Jose: animals in environmental and economic perspective / Kitty F. Emery
- Animal resource use and exchange at an inland Maya port: zooarchaeological investigations at Trinidad de Nosotros / Erin Kennedy Thornton
- In search of markets and fields: soil chemical investigations at Motul de San Jose / Daniel A. Bair and Richard E. Terry
- Stable carbon isotope evidence of ancient maize cultivation on the soils of Motul de San Jose / Elizabeth A. Webb and Henry P. Schwarcz
- Landscape, economies, and the politics of power in the Motul de San Jose zone / Kitty F. Emery and Antonia E. Foias
- Control without controlling: Motul de San Jose and its environs from an outsider's perspective / Elizabeth Graham.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4342-5
- 0-8130-4251-8
- OCLC:
- 817905206
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