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Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya
Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya summarizes archaeological researchers’ current views on the adoption and first use of pottery across the Maya lowlands. Covering the early Middle Preclassic period, when communities began using and producing pottery for the first time (roughly 1000–600 BC), through to the establishment of a recognizably Maya tradition, termed the Mamom ceramic sphere (about 600–300 BC), the book demonstrates that the adoption was broadly contemporary, with variation in how the new technology was adapted locally. Analyzing ceramics found at sites in Belize, Petén (Guatemala), and Mexico, the contributors provide evidence that th...
Archaeoastronomy and the Maya
Archaeoastronomy and the Maya illustrates archaeoastronomical approaches to ancient Mayan cultural production. The book is contextualized through a history of archaeoastronomical investigations into Mayan sites, originating in the 19th century discovery of astronomical tables within hieroglyphic books. Early 20th century archaeological excavations revealed inscriptions carved into stone that also preserved astronomical records, along with architecture that was built to reflect astronomical orientations. These materials provided the basis of a growing professionalized archaeoastronomy, blossoming in the 1970s and expanding into recent years. The chapters here exemplify the advances made in th...
Perspectives on the Ancient Maya of Chetumal Bay
"Brings novel, synthetic insight to understanding a region that was a hub of waterborne trade and an important locus of production for some of the Maya’s most valued crops."--Cynthia Robin, author of Everyday Life Matters: Maya Farmers at Chan "This one of a kind volume shows us how important this region was to the ancient Maya with detailed and vivid descriptions of sociopolitical and economic organization and their relation to the unique landscape and geography of Chetumal Bay."--Laura J. Kosakowsky, author of Preclassic Maya Pottery at Cuello, Belize Chetumal Bay is central to discussions of ancient Maya politics, warfare, economy, exchange and communication because of its unique locati...
Maya E Groups
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 ...
Mesoamerican Plazas
Until now, archaeological and historical studies of Mesoamerican plazas have been scarce compared to studies of the surrounding monumental architecture such as pyramidal temples and palaces. Many scholars have assumed that ancient Mesoamericans invested their labor, wealth, and symbolic value in pyramids and other prominent buildings, viewing plazas as by-products of these buildings. Even when researchers have recognized the potential significance of plazas, they have thought that plazas as vacant spaces could offer few clues about their cultural and political roles. Mesoamerican Plazas challenges both of these assumptions. The primary question that has motivated the contributors is how Meso...
Reconocimiento arqueológico en el sureste del estado de Campeche, México
El libro presenta los resultados de la séptima temporada del reconocimiento arqueológico en el sureste del estado de Campeche, México, realizada en 2007 en el sector sur de la Reserva de la Biósfera de Calakmul. La cerámica de superficie y las características de la arquitectura corroboran la ocupación del área desde el Preclásico Medio hasta el Clásico Terminal, establecida con base en las prospecciones anteriores, y reflejan sus relaciones con regiones circunvecinas. Los sitios registrados representan restos de asentamientos de diferentes rangos jerárquicos. La importancia sociopolítica de algunos centros urbanos es indicada por su arquitectura cívica y ceremonial, así como po...
Exploraciones arqueológicas en Chactún, Campeche, México
El sitio arqueológico de Chactún, ubicado en la parte oriental del estado mexicano de Campeche, fue descubierto en 2013 en la porción sur del vasto territorio arqueológicamente inexplorado que se extiende entre las regiones Río Bec y Chenes. Con sus tres concentraciones de arquitectura monumental y numerosos monumentos esculpidos, de los que varios conservan relieves, Chactún es uno de los centros urbanos mayas más grandes conocidos al momento en la parte central de la península de Yucatán. Los datos cerámicos indican la ocupación desde el Preclásico, mientras que, a juzgar por las estelas con textos jeroglíficas y fechas, la ciudad llegó a ocupar un lugar importante en la jera...
Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics
This book examines the emergence of political institutions in Maya civilization through studies of landscape, architecture and material culture.
From Ritual to Refuse: Faunal Exploitation by the Elite of Chinikihá, Chiapas, during the Late Classic Period
From Ritual to Refuse explores the faunal exploitation by the Maya elite at the site of Chinikihá, Chiapas, during the end of the Late Classic period (AD 700-850) by applying zooarchaeological and statistical analyses to a faunal assemblage located in a basurero or midden behind a palatial structure at the core of the site.
The Maya World
The Maya World brings together over 60 authors, representing the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and ethnography, who explore cutting-edge research on every major facet of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world. The Maya world, which covers Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador, contains over a hundred ancient sites that are open to tourism, eight of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and many thousands more that have been dug or await investigation. In addition to captivating the lay public, the ancient Maya have attracted scores of major interdisciplinary research expeditions and hundreds of smaller projects goin...
