Framing complexity in Formative Mesoamerica / edited by Lisa DeLance and Gary M. Feinman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeLance, Lisa L., editor.

Feinman, Gary M., editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Social conditions.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Central America--Social conditions.

Indians of Central America.

Indians of Mexico--Antiquities.

Indians of Central America--Antiquities.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Central America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 317 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2022]

Contents:

Framing complexity / Lisa L DeLance

Heterarchy and the emergence of social complexity in Formative period coastal Oaxaca, Mexico / Guy David Hepp

Pottery and society during the Preclassic period at Yaxuná, Yucatán / Travis W. Stanton, Sara Dzul Góngora, Ryan H. Collins, Rodrigo Martín Morales

The emergence of complex imagery on late Terminal Formative gray ware pottery from coastal Oaxaca, Mexico / Jeffrey S. Brzezinski, Sarah B. Barber, Arthur A. Joyce

The beginnings of complexity in the central Petén Lakes area / Prudence M. Rice, Katherine E. South

Shifting ceramic styles in the Formative period Basin of Mexico / Wesley D. Stoner, Deborah L. Nichols

Urban organization and origins of complexity in the Puuc Region of Northern Yucatan / Michael P. Smyth

The role of monumental architecture and landscape modification in the development of complexity at early Xunantunich, Belize / Zoē J. Rawski, M. Kathryn Brown

The complexity of figurines : ancestor veneration at Cahal Pech, Cayo, Belize / Lisa L. DeLance, Jamie J. Awe

From shell beads to symbolic royal bodies : a diachronic comparison of body ornamentation production, consumption, and social complexity at prehispanic Pacbitun, Belize / Jon Spenard, George J. Micheletti, Kaitlin Crow, Terry G. Powis, Teresa Tremblay

Why the Mesoamerican Formative period matters? Vantages on human aggregation and cooperation / Gary M. Feinman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 26, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Framing complexity in Formative Mesoamerica

ISBN:

9781646422883

1646422880

Publisher Number:

40031346833

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.