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16 produkter
Pottery Analysis, Second Edition
A Sourcebook
Häftad, 2015
600 kr
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Just as a single pot starts with a lump of clay, the study of a piece's history must start with an understanding of its raw materials. This principle is the foundation of Pottery Analysis, the acclaimed sourcebook that has become the indispensable guide for archaeologists and anthropologists …
Maya Political Science
Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos
Häftad, 2004
400 kr
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How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus …
Maya Calendar Origins
Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time
Häftad, 2007
310 kr
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In Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos, Prudence M. Rice proposed a new model of Maya political organization in which geopolitical seats of power rotated according to a 256-year calendar cycle known as the May. This fundamental connection between timekeeping and Maya political …
Vintage Moquegua
History, Wine, and Archaeology on a Colonial Peruvian Periphery
Häftad, 2011
400 kr
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The microhistory of the wine industry in colonial Moquegua, Peru, during the colonial period stretches from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, yielding a wealth of information about a broad range of fields, including early modern industry and labor, viniculture practices, the cultural …
Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island
Complexity, Ritual, and Pottery
Häftad, 2023
396 kr
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Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theoriesRevisiting McKeithen Weeden Island further illuminates an Indigenous Late Woodland (ca. AD 200–900) mound-and-village community in northern Florida that was first excavated in the late …
Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island
Complexity, Ritual, and Pottery
E-bok, 2023
682 kr
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Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theories Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island further illuminates an Indigenous Late Woodland (ca. AD 200–900) mound-and-village community in northern Florida that was first excavated in the late …
Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands
Collapse, Transition, and Transformation
Av Arthur A. Demarest, Prudence M. Rice m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
491 kr
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The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands revisits one of the great problems in Mayan archaeology - the apparent collapse of Classic Maya civilization from roughly A.D. 830 to 950. During this period the Maya abandoned their power centers in the southern lowlands and rather abruptly ceased the …
Maya Ceramics, Part i
Papers from the 1985 Maya Ceramic Conference
Av Prudence M Rice, Robert J Sharer
Häftad, 1987
399 kr
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Maya Ceramics, Part ii
Papers from the 1985 Maya Ceramic Conference
Av Prudence M Rice, Robert J Sharer
Häftad, 1987
399 kr
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Lowland Maya Postclassic
Av Arlen F. Chase, Prudence M. Rice
Häftad, 1985
399 kr
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This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.
Ceramics and Civilization, Volume VII
The Prehistory & History of Ceramic Kilns
Inbunden, 1997
1917 kr
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Application of heat to clay transforms it into a ceramic, and thus the history and technical features of structures supplying that heat - kilns - are of considerable importance. The 14 chapters in this volume discuss ancient and historic kilns from the viewpoint of their excavation, their …
Space-Time Perspectives on Early Colonial Moquegua
Häftad, 2024
567 kr
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In this rich study of the construction and reconstruction of a colonized landscape, Prudence M. Rice takes an implicit political ecology approach in exploring encounters of colonization in Moquegua, a small valley of southern Peru. Building on theories of spatiality, spatialization, and place, she …
Kowoj
Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala
Av Prudence M. Rice, Don S. Rice
Inbunden, 2009
782 kr
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Neighbors of the better-known Itza in the central Peten lakes region of Guatemala, the Kowoj Maya have been studied for little more than a decade. The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics in Late Postclassic Peten, Guatemala summarizes the results of recent research into this ethno-political …
Kowoj
Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala
Av Prudence M. Rice, Don S. Rice
Häftad, 2012
449 kr
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Neighbors of the better-known Itza in the central Petén lakes region of Guatemala, the Kowoj Maya have been studied for little more than a decade. The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala summarizes the results of recent research into this ethno-political …
Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Itzas of Petén, Guatemala
Av Prudence M. Rice, Don S. Rice
Inbunden, 2018
1202 kr
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Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Itzas of Petén, Guatemala is the first exhaustively detailed and thorough account of the Itzas—a Maya group that dominated much of the western lowland area of tropical forest, swamps, and grasslands in Petén, Guatemala. Examining archaeological and …
Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos
Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya Figurines, Ritual, and Time
Inbunden, 2019
942 kr
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Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos explores the sociocultural significance of more than three hundred Middle Preclassic Maya figurines uncovered at the site of Nixtun-Ch'ich' on Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala. In this careful, holistic, and detailed analysis of the Petén lakes …
