Construction of Maya space : causeways, walls, and open areas from ancient to modern times / edited by Thomas H. Guderjan and Jennifer P. Mathews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guderjan, Thomas H., editor.

Mathews, Jennifer P., 1969- editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maya architecture--Central America.

Maya architecture.

Maya architecture--Mexico.

Landscape archaeology--Central America.

Landscape archaeology.

Landscape archaeology--Mexico.

Mayas--Antiquities.

Mayas.

Central America.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

viii, 432 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2023.

Summary:

"This volume focuses on how powerful people of the ancient, historical, and contemporary periods in the Maya world used features such as walls, roads, rails, and symbolic boundaries to control those without power, and how the powerless pushed back"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Thinking about barriers and connectivity in Maya archaeological landscapes / Thomas H. Guderjan and Jennifer P. Mathews

Causeways and geopolitical connections in the Ucí-Cansahcab region, Yucatán / Daniel Vallejo-Cáliz and Scott R. Hutson

The axis connecting Classic Maya economy and ritual at Xunantunich, Belize / Bernadette Cap, M. Kathryn Brown, and Whitney Lytle

Roads, temples, and the community boundaries of Cobá, Quintana Roo / Travis W. Stanton, Traci Ardren, Nicolas C. Barth, Juan Fernandez Diaz, Stephanie J. Miller, Karl A. Taube, Patrick Rohrer, Elizabeth Beckner, and Aline Magnoni

Taming the jungle: Decauville railroads in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Yucatán / Jennifer P. Mathews

The Chichén Itzá and Ek Balam borderlands / J. Gregory Smith and Alejandra Alonso Olvera

Crossing the last Maya boundary: the central line of the military campaign, 1899-1904 / Alejandra Badillo Sánchez

All in all, it's (not) just another brick in the wall: examining the diverse functions of wall architecture in western Belize / Jaime J. Awe and Shawn G. Morton

Two tales of a city: the Sakbe'ob at Yo'okop from the viewpoints of elites and commoners / Justine M. Shaw and Alberto G. Flores Colin

Changing perspectives on ancient Maya neighborhoods and houselots at Xnoha in northwest Belize / Thomas H. Guderjan, C. Colleen Hanratty, and Joshua H. Kwoka

Prehistoric Albarradas at the site of Buena Vista, Cozumel / Adolfo Iván Batún-Alpuche

An ethnoecological view of the evolution of Solares: a Yucatán Maya houselot case study / Grace Lloyd Bascopé and Elias Alcocer Puerto

The identity that binds and the Albarradas that divide: residential space and ethnoarchaeology in Yaxunah, Yucatán / Héctor Hernández Álvarez

Constructing a world beneath Quintana Roo / Carmen Rojas Sandoval, Miguel Covarrubias Reyna, and Dominique Rissolo

Not seeing is believing: the production of space in ancient Maya cave sites / Holley Moyes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Construction of maya space

ISBN:

9780816551873

0816551871

OCLC:

1370333903

Publisher Number:

99995534238