The nature of an ancient Maya city : resources, interaction, and power at Blue Creek, Belize / Thomas H. Guderjan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guderjan, Thomas H.

Series:

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayas--Urban residence--Hondo River Region (Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize).

Mayas.

Mayas--Hondo River Region (Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize)--Antiquities.

Maya architecture--Hondo River Region (Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize).

Maya architecture.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Hondo River Region (Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Blue Creek Ruin (Belize).

Hondo River Region (Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including monumental ceremonial structures, elite and non-elite residences, ditched agricultural fields, and residential clusters just outside the core. Since 1992, a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research team has intensively investigated Blue Creek in an integrated study of the dynamic structure

Contents:

Public architecture, ritual, and temporal dynamics

The spatial arrangement of a Maya city

Diversity of power and authority in a Maya city

Agriculture as Blue Creek's economic base

The importance of trade and commerce at Blue Creek

Power and authority at Blue Creek

Addressing some large and small issues.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-165) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8192-9

OCLC:

426058545