An Inconstant Landscape The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala / edited by Thomas G. Garrison and Stephen Houston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Houston, Stephen D., editor.

Garrison, Thomas G. (Thomas Gardner), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayas--Antiquities.

Mayas.

Guatemala--Antiquities.

Guatemala.

Zotz Site (Guatemala).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (493 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2018]

Summary:

"Six years of archaeological survey around the Maya kingdom of El Zotz a complex picture of a dynamic landscape that experienced numerous fluctuations over the course of 2000 years of occupation-it serves as a test-case of political debility and strength during the height of dynastic struggles"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A fortress in heaven : researching the long-term at El Zotz, Guatemala / Stephen Houston, Thomas G. Garrison, and Edwin Román

Monumental beginnings : the Preclassic Maya of El Palmar and the Buenavista Valley, Peten, Guatemala / James A. Doyle and Rony E. Piedrasanta

Ruling through defense : the rise of an Early Classic Dynasty at El Zotz / Edwin Román, Thomas G. Garrison, and Stephen Houston

Border lords and client kings : El Zotz and Bejucal in the Late Classic Period / Nicholas P. Carter, Yeny M. Gutierrez Castillo, and Sarah Newman

Collapse, continuity, change : El Zotz in the Terminal Classic Period / Sarah Newman, Jose Luis Garrido, and Nicholas P. Carter

In the wake of "collapse" : the Post-Dynastic or Early Postclassic Period at El Zotz / Melanie J. Kingsley and Laura Gómez

Environments of El Zotz : water and soil chemistry, the El Zotz dam, and long-term environmental change / Timothy Beach, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Colin Doyle, and William Delgado

Understanding social, economic, and political change : the ceramics of El Zotz / Ewa Czapiewska-Halliday, Nicholas P. Carter, Melanie J. Kingsley, Sarah Newman, and Alyce de Carteret

Lithic technologies and economies at El Zotz / Zachary Hruby

A tableau in clay : the figurines and figurine-whistles of El Zotz / Alyce de Carteret and Jose Luis Garrido

Constructed landscapes : architectural stratigraphy, behavioral practices, and building technologies at El Zotz / Cassandra Mesick Braun

Bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology of El Zotz, Bejucal, and El Palmar / Andrew K. Scherer

An inconstant landscape : Pa'ka'n in a regional context / Thomas G. Garrison and Stephen Houston.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-491) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607327646

1607327643

OCLC:

1128165223