Socioeconomic networks and the rise of Maya civilization : the web of complexity at Middle Preclassic Cahal Pech, Belize / Sherman W. Horn III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horn, Sherman W., III, author.

Series:

BAR international series. Archaeology of the Maya ; volume 7.

BAR international series ; 3009.

Archaeology of the Maya ; volume 7

BAR international series ; 3009

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayas--Civilization.

Mayas.

Mayas--Antiquities.

Mayas--Belize--Economic conditions.

Mayas--Belize--Social conditions.

Cahal Pech Archaeological Park (Belize).

Mayas--Economic conditions.

Mayas--Social conditions.

Belize.

Belize--Cahal Pech Archaeological Park.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 321 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

This study examines the origins of complex society in the Maya Lowlands during the Middle Preclassic period. Excavations at Cahal Pech - a mid-sized Maya settlement in the Belize River Valley - revealed complex architectural sequences over a 600-year developmental period, which spans the time of the earliest permanent villages in the area and the emergence of institutionalized hierarchy characteristic of later Maya civilization. The author uses spatial analysis to investigate artifact distribution patterns related to architectural change and marshals a diverse dataset to support a network framework for understanding developing complexity. This expands on studies of long-distance exchange to examine how households and communities could gain advantage by participating in interaction networks, and how the positioning of some entities in networks could have produced socioeconomic inequalities.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 6, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781407357553

1407357557

OCLC:

1291224953