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Maya E Groups

Calendars, Astronomy, and Urbanism in the Early Lowlands

AvJerry Murdock,Anne S. Dowdm. fl.

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PDF, Engelska, 2017

2 164 kr

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As complex societies emerged in the Maya lowlands during the first millennium BCE, so did stable communities focused around public squares and the worship of a divine ruler tied to a Maize God cult. “E Groups,” central to many of these settlements, are architectural complexes: typically, a long platform supporting three struc¬tures and facing a western pyramid across a formal plaza. Aligned with the movements of the sun, E Groups have long been interpreted as giant calendrical devices crucial to the rise of Maya civilization. This volume presents new archaeological data to reveal that E Groups were constructed earlier than previously thought. In fact, they are the earliest identifiable architectural plan at many Maya settlements. More than just astronomical observatories or calendars, E Groups were a key element of community organization, urbanism, and identity in the heart of the Maya lowlands. They served as gathering places for emerging communities and centers of ritual; they were the very first civic-religious public architecture in the Maya lowlands. Investigating a wide variety of E Group sites—including some of the most famous like the Mundo Perdido in Tikal and the hitherto little known complex at Chan, as well as others in Ceibal, El Palmar, Cival, Calakmul, Caracol, Xunantunich, Yaxnohcah, Yaxuná, and San Bartolo—this volume pieces together the development of social and political complexity in ancient Maya civilization. James Aimers | Anthony F. Aveni | Jamie J. Awe | Boris Beltran | M. Kathryn Brown | Arlen F. Chase | Diane Z. Chase | Anne S. Dowd | James Doyle | Francisco Estrada-Belli | David A. Freidel | Julie A. Hoggarth | Takeshi Inomata | Patricia A. Mcanany | Susan Milbrath | Jerry Murdock | Kathryn Reese-Taylor | Prudence M. Rice | Cynthia Robin | Franco D. Rossi | Jeremy A. Sabloff | William A. Saturno | Travis W. StantonA volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Maya E Groups

Calendars, Astronomy, and Urbanism in the Early Lowlands

AvDavid A. Freidel,Arlen F. Chasem. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

1 440 kr

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In ancient Maya cities, “E Groups” are sets of buildings aligned with the movements of the sun. This volume presents new archaeological data to reveal that E Groups were constructed earlier than previously thought—in fact, they are the earliest identifiable architectural plan at many Maya settlements. More than just astronomical observatories or calendars, E Groups were gathering places for emerging communities and centers of ritual: the very first civic-religious public architecture in the Maya lowlands. Investigating a wide variety of E Group sites in different contexts, this volume pieces together the development of social and political complexity in the ancient Maya civilization.A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase.

Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies

From Farmers’ Fields to Rulers’ Realms

AvArthur A. Demarest,David A. Freidelm. fl.

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2020

2 164 kr

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Contributors from a wide range of disciplines move beyond paradigms of elite control and centralized exchange to focus on individual agency, highlighting production and exchange that took place at all levels of society. Case studies draw on new archaeological evidence from rural households and urban marketplaces to reconstruct the trade networks for tools, ceramics, obsidian, salt, and agricultural goods throughout the empire. They also describe the ways household production integrated with community, regional, and interregional markets.

Redirecting the field of ancient Maya economic studies away from simplistic characterizations of the past by fully representing the range of current views on the subject, this volume delves deeply into multiple facets of a complex, interdependent material world.

A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Maya E Groups

Calendars, Astronomy, and Urbanism in the Early Lowlands

AvDavid A. Freidel,Arlen F. Chasem. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

509 kr

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As complex societies emerged in the Maya lowlands during the first millen¬nium BCE, so did stable communities focused around public squares and the worship of a divine ruler tied to a Maize God cult. "E Groups," central to many of these settle¬ments, are architectural complexes: typically, a long platform supporting three struc¬tures and facing a western pyramid across a formal plaza. Aligned with the movements of the sun, E Groups have long been interpreted as giant calendrical devices crucial to the rise of Maya civilization. This volume presents new archaeological data to reveal that E Groups were constructed earlier than previously thought. In fact, they are the earliest identifiable architectural plan at many Maya settlements. More than just astronomical observatories or calendars, E Groups were a key ele¬ment of community organization, urbanism, and identity in the heart of the Maya lowlands. They served as gathering places for emerging communities and centers of ritual; they were the very first civic-religious public architecture in the Maya lowlands. Investigating a wide variety of E Group sites—including some of the most famous like the Mundo Perdido in Tikal and the hitherto little known complex at Chan, as well as others in Ceibal, El Palmar, Cival, Calakmul, Caracol, Xunantunich, Yaxnohcah, Yaxuná, and San Bartolo—this volume pieces together the development of social and political complexity in ancient Maya civilization.

Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies

From Farmers' Fields to Rulers' Realms

AvMarilyn A. Masson,David A. Freidelm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

1 440 kr

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A timely synthesis of the latest research and perspectives on ancient Maya economics, this volume illuminates the sophistication and intricacy of economic systems in the Preclassic, Classic, and Postclassic periods. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines move beyond paradigms of elite control and centralized exchange to focus on individual agency, highlighting production and exchange that took place at all levels of society. Case studies draw on new archaeological evidence from rural households and urban marketplaces to reconstruct the trade networks for tools, ceramics, obsidian, salt, and agricultural goods throughout the empire. They also describe the ways household production integrated with community, regional, and interregional markets. Redirecting the field of ancient Maya economic studies away from simplistic characterizations of the past by fully representing the range of current views on the subject, this volume delves deeply into multiple facets of a complex, interdependent material world. A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World

Mythic History and Ritual Order

AvDavid A. Freidel,Arlen F. Chasem. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

1 440 kr

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New understandings of how Maya people expressed timekeeping in daily lifeThis book discusses the range of ways the ancient Maya people made time tangible through their architecture, arts, writing, beliefs, and practices. These chapters show how the Maya incorporated cyclicality and expanded dimensionality into the built environment, embedding notions of time in shared political and economic institutions, religious and philosophical traditions, and mythology.Beginning several millennia ago, the Maya observed and calculated the solar year cycle and scheduled collective activities that integrated cities, towns, and villages over great distances. Their timekeeping approaches evolved from commemorative ceremonial architectural complexes starting around 1000 BCE to the formal public inscription of calendar jubilees on stone monuments, the use of calendar almanacs, written prophetic and historical accounts, and the customs of modern priest shamans. Contributors to this volume discuss everyday examples of how the Maya kept time through these practices, including divining with snail shells, laying out center designs with creation stories and star patterns, singing those stories while drinking from vases depicting mythic history, and embedding symbolic temporal deposits within their buildings and living areas. This comprehensive volume includes analyses of groundbreaking recent discoveries, such as the early center of Aguada Fénix and the connections it shows between Maya and Olmec timekeeping. By sharing how the Maya crafted a cosmological sense of time into their daily lives, The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World addresses and rethinks the most famous intellectual feature of this civilization.A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World

Mythic History and Ritual Order

AvJerry Murdock,Anne S. Dowdm. fl.

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2024

4 328 kr

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Newunderstandings of how Maya people expressed timekeeping in daily life

This book discussesthe range of ways the ancient Maya people made time tangible through their architecture,arts, writing, beliefs, and practices. These chapters show how the Maya incorporatedcyclicality and expanded dimensionality into the built environment, embeddingnotions of time in shared political and economic institutions, religious andphilosophical traditions, and mythology.

Beginningseveral millennia ago, the Maya observed and calculated the solar year cycle andscheduled collective activities that integrated cities, towns, and villagesover great distances. Theirtimekeeping approaches evolved from commemorative ceremonial architecturalcomplexes starting around 1000 BCE to the formal public inscription of calendarjubilees on stone monuments, the use of calendar almanacs, written propheticand historical accounts, and the customs of modern priest shamans. Contributorsto this volume discuss everyday examples of how the Maya kept time through thesepractices, including divining with snail shells, laying out center designs withcreation stories and star patterns, singing those stories while drinking fromvases depicting mythic history, and embedding symbolic temporal deposits withintheir buildings and living areas.

Thiscomprehensive volume includes analyses of groundbreaking recent discoveries,such as the early center of Aguada Fénix and the connections it shows betweenMaya and Olmec timekeeping. By sharing how the Maya crafted a cosmologicalsense of time into their daily lives, TheMaterialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World addresses and rethinksthe most famous intellectual feature of this civilization.

Avolume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Before Kukulkán

Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxuná

AvVera Tiesler,Andrea Cucinam. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

544 kr

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This volume illuminates human lifeways in the northern Maya lowlands prior to the rise of ChichÉn ItzÁ. This period and area have been poorly understood on their own terms, obscured by scholarly focus on the central lowland Maya kingdoms. Before KukulkÁn is anchored in three decades of interdisciplinary research at the Classic Maya capital of YaxunÁ, located at a contentious crossroads of the northern Maya lowlands.Using bioarchaeology, mortuary archaeology, and culturally sensitive mainstream archaeology, the authors create an in-depth regional understanding while also laying out broader ways of learning about the Maya past. Part 1 examines ancient lifeways among the Maya at YaxunÁ, while part 2 explores different meanings of dying and cycling at the settlement and beyond: ancestral practices, royal entombment and desecration, and human sacrifice. The authors close with a discussion of the last years of occupation at YaxunÁ and the role of ChichÉn ItzÁ in the abandonment of this urban center.Before KukulkÁn provides a cohesive synthesis of the evolving roles and collective identities of locals and foreigners at the settlement and their involvement in the region’s trajectory. Theoretically informed and contextualized discussions offer unique glimpses of everyday life and death in the socially fluid Maya city. These findings, in conjunction with other documented series of skeletal remains from this region, provide a nuanced picture of the social and biocultural dynamics that operated successfully for centuries before the arrival of the ItzÁ.

James N Ambrosino, Traci Ardren, Sharon Bennett, David A Freidel, Justine M Shaw, Travis W. Stanton, Charles K Suhler - Archaeological Investigations at Yaxuná 1986-1996, Övrigt

Archaeological Investigations at Yaxuná 1986-1996

Results of the Selz Foundation Yaxuna Project

BAR Publishing

2010

1 497 kr

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Ancient Maya Political Economies

AvMarilyn A. Masson,David A. Freidel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

1 566 kr

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Ancient Maya Political Economies examines variation in systems of economic production and exchange and how these systems supported the power networks that integrated Maya society. Chapters in this book take a hard look at existing models of elite exchange and tribute and address the difficult question of how the flow of utilitarian goods supported Maya kingdoms and their ruling classes. Using models originally developed by William L. Rathje, the authors explore core-periphery relations, the use of household analysis to reconstruct political economy, and evidence for market development. In doing so, they challenge the conventional wisdom of decentralized Maya political authority and replace it with a more complex view of the political economic foundations of Maya civilization.

Ancient Maya Political Economies

AvMarilyn A. Masson,David A. Freidel

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

719 kr

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David A. Freidel – författare

Maya E Groups

Maya E Groups

Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies

Maya E Groups

Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies

Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World

Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World

Before Kukulkán

Archaeological Investigations at Yaxuná 1986-1996

Ancient Maya Political Economies

Ancient Maya Political Economies

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