Pathways to complexity : a view from the Maya lowlands / edited by M. Kathryn Brown and George J. Bey III ; foreword by Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953- author of foreword.

Chase, Diane Z., author of foreword.

Contributor:

Brown, M. Kathryn, 1965- editor.

Bey, George J., editor.

Series:

Maya studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayas--Antiquities.

Mayas.

Mayas--History.

History.

Indians of Mexico--Antiquities.

Indians of Mexico.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 511 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]

Summary:

This book provides a new understanding on the rise of Maya civilization, pushing back the origins of social, religious and economic complexity hundreds of years earlier than traditionally thought.

Contents:

Foreword / Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase

Introduction / M. Kathryn Bey and George J. Bey III

The Paleo-American and Archaic periods in Yucatan / Anthony P. Andrews and Fernando Robles Castellanos

The Cunil Complex: early villages in Belize / Lauren Sullivan, Jaime Awe, and M. Kathryn Brown

The earliest ceramics of the northern Maya lowlands / E. Wyllys Andrews V, George J. Bey III, Christopher Gunn

The role of ideology, religion, and ritual in the foundation of social complexity in the Belize River Valley / M. Kathryn Brown, Jaime J. Awe, and James F. Garber

Middle preclassic Maya shell ornament production: implications for the development of complexity at Pacbitun, Belize / Bobbi Hohmann, Terry Powis and Paul Healy

Developmental dynamics, energetics, and complex economic interactions of the early Maya of the Mirador-Calakmul Basin, Guatemala and Campeche, Mexico / Richard D. Hansen, Donald W. Forsyth, James C. Woods, Thomas Schreiner, and Gene L. Titmus

The preclassic settlement of northwest Yucatan: recharting the pathway to complexity / David S. Anderson, Fernando Robles Castellanos, and Anthony P. Andrews

The genesis of Maya complexity in the northwestern region of the Yucatan Penisula / Fernando Robles Castellanos and Teresa Ceballos Gallareta

The preclassic period: a view of complexity in the residential settlement of Ek Balam / Tara Bond-Freeman

At the foot of the hills: early monumentality at Xocnaceh, Yucatan, Mexico / Tomás Gallareta Negrón

El Achiotal: an interior frontier center in the northwestern Pet¿n, Guatemala / Mary Jane Acuña

Changing stages: royal legitimacy and the architectural development of the pinturas complex at San Bartolo, Guatemala / William Saturno, Franco Rossi, and Boris Beltrán

Naranjo, Guatemala, a middle preclassic site in the central highlands of Guatemala / Barbara Arroyo

Maya and the idea of empire / David Freidel

Conclusion: charting the pathways to complexity in the Maya lowlands / M. Kathryn Brown and George J. Bey III.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813054841

0813054842

OCLC:

993623888