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1 online resource (553 pages)
ISBN:
9780813042510
Series Statement:
Maya Studies
Content:
Scholars have long debated the nature of Maya political organization during the Classic period (AD 250-950). Complex questions regarding political centralization, economic change, and the role of politics and economics in the rise and collapse of the civilization have been examined and reexamined from a variety of perspectives. Antonia Foias and Kitty Emery have assembled a broad collection of essays all focused on a single polity, that of Motul de San José. By presenting a coherent interdisciplinary body of archaeological and environmental data, the volume offers an intensely deep, focused investigation of the various models of the ancient Maya political and economic systems. Research conducted over six seasons of fieldwork reveals a more centralized political system than expected and uncovers the workings of the ancient economic structure. The contributors offer new details concerning how involved royals and nonroyal elites were in the politics of nearby states, as well as an extensive tribute system.
Content:
Cover -- Motul de San José -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Politics and Economics: Theoretical Perspectives of the Motul de San José Project -- 2. Lords of Windy Water: The Royal Court of Motul de San José in Classic Maya Inscriptions -- 3. Identity and Interaction: Ceramic Styles and Social History of the Ik' Polity, Guatemala -- 4. Architecture, Volumetrics, and Social Stratification at Motul de San José during the Late and Terminal Classic -- 5. Figurine Economies at Motul de San José: Multiple and Shifting Modes of Valuation -- 6. Motul de San José Palace Pottery Production: Reconstructions from Wasters and Debris -- 7. History, Politics, and Ceramics: The Ceramic Sequence of Trinidad de Nosotros, El Petén, Guatemala -- 8. Wealth, Status, and Stucco: Micromorphology Studies at Trinidad, a Secondary Center in the Motul de San José Periphery -- 9. Akte: Settlement, Chronology, and Monuments at the Minor Ceremonial Center Akte in the Motul de San José Periphery -- 10. Preliminary Investigations in Macro- and Microbotany at Motul de San José -- 11. The Motul de San José Animals in an Economic Perspective -- 12. Animal Resource Use and Exchange at an Inland Maya Port: Zooarchaeological Investigations at Trinidad de Nosotros -- 13. In Search of Markets and Fields: Soil Chemical Investigations at Motul de San José -- 14. Stable Carbon Isotope Evidence of Ancient Maize Cultivation on the Soils of Motul de San José -- 15. Landscape, Economies, and the Politics of Power in the Motul de San José Polity -- 16. Control without Controlling: Motul de San José and Its Environs from an Outsider's Perspective -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Figures -- 1.1. Location of Motul de San José -- 1.2. Map of Motul de San José showing group names.
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Cover; Motul de San José; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Figures; List of Tables; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Politics and Economics: Theoretical Perspectives of the Motul de San José Project; 1.1. Location of Motul de San José; 1.2. Map of Motul de San José showing group names; 1.3. Survey transects in the periphery of Motul de San José; 1.4. Central Petén Lakes zone; 2. Lords of Windy Water: The Royal Court of Motul de San José in Classic Maya Inscriptions; 2.1. Ik'a' as the ancient name of Motul de San José; 2.2. Inscription on MTL St 1
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2.1. Transcriptions of hieroglyphic inscriptions on Motul de San José Stela 1 and Itzan Stela 172.3. Inscriptions on monument fragments at Motul de San José; 2.2. Known events in the history of Ik'a' lords; 2.4. References to White Bird; 2.5. References to Tayel Chan K'inich; 2.6. Sihyaj K'awiil and Yajawte' K'inich; 2.7. K'inich Lamaw Ek' and Yeh Te' K'inich II; 2.8. Last Ik'a' lords; 2.9. Late Classic external connections of Ik'a' rulers; 2.10. References to campaigns against Motul de San José on Itzan St 17; 2.11. The court of Ik'a' in the inscriptions on painted vases
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2.12. References to Tubal at Motul de San José and other sites3. Identity and Interaction: Ceramic Styles and Social History of the Ik' Polity, Guatemala; 3.1. MS1121/K1439, a Motul Group 1 vessel portraying the eighth-century Ik' ruler Yajawte' K'inich; 3.2. K5418, an Ik'-style vase; 3.1. Dates on the Ik' Pottery Corpus (Julian calendar dates); 3.3. Discriminant analysis plot of main fuzzy-derived and statistically refined groups containing vessels painted in the Ik' style; 3.2. Chemically defined groups of eighth-century Ik' painted pottery; 3.3. Fuzzy cluster mean values
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3.4. Linear discriminant functions3.5. Principal components from Motul Group 2; 3.4. DPCS25, a vase excavated at Cueva de Sangre, Petexbatún region; 3.5. MS1373/K1728, a Motul Group 2 vessel; 3.6. MS0074/K5445, a Motul Group 1 vessel; 3.7. MS0179, a Motul Group 2 vessel; 3.8. DPT009, excavated at Tamarindito, Petexbatún region; 3.9. MS0651/K1599, a vase made in the Petexbatún region; 4. Architecture, Volumetrics, and Social Stratification at Motul de San José during the Late and Terminal Classic; 4.1. Definition of three ranks of groups based on architectural group volumetrics
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4.1. List of Motul de San José groups, their architectural volume, rank, excavation operation, and group type4.2. Definition of group types in the Motul de San José zone based on architectural features and number of structures; 4.3. Close-up of Groups C and D; 4.4. Plan of excavations in Str. 8L-9 and east-west profile of interior of the south and east walls in Str. 8L-9; 4.5. Profile of looting trench in Group D's east pyramid; 4.6. Plan of excavations in Str. 8M-11; 4.7. Profile of Str. 8M-11 along east-west line A-A'; 4.8. Str. 8M-11 in its final version
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4.9. The front terraces and stairway of Str. 8M-11
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813041902
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780813041902
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English
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