Maya (Culture Keyword)

201-225 (303 Records)

Roots and the Subsistence of the Ancient Maya (1966)

DOCUMENT Citation Only B. Brouson.

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Ruins of the Past: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands (2008)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Travis W. Stanton. Aline Magnoni.

From the Preclassic to the present, Maya peoples have continuously built, altered, abandoned, and re-used structures, imbuing them with new meanings at each transformation. Ruins of the Past is the first volume to focus on how previously built structures in the Maya Lowlands were used and perceived by later peoples, exploring the topic through concepts of landscape, place, and memory. The collection, as Wendy Ashmore points out in her foreword, offers "a stimulating, productive, and fresh set of...

Sak lu'um in Maya Culture: And Its Possible Relation to Maya Blue (1967)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dean E. Arnold.

Settlement Archaeology at Quiriguá, Guatemala

PROJECT Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

This monograph reports the results of the Quiriguá Project Site Periphery Program, five seasons (1975-1979) of archaeological survey and excavation in the 96 square kilometers immediately adjoining the classic Maya site of Quiriguá. Ashmore identifies and helps us understand where and how the people of Quiriguá lived. She presents detailed material evidence in two data catalogues, for the floodplain settlement adjoining Quiriguá and for sites in the wider periphery. The work situates Quiriguá...

Settlement Archaeology at Quiriguá, Guatemala (2007)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendy Ashmore.

Settlement data from the 1960-1975 Basin of Mexico Surveys (2014)

DATASET Scott Ortman.

Data analyzed in Ortman, S. G., A. H. F. Cabaniss, J. Sturm, and L. M. A. Bettencourt, The Pre-History of Urban Scaling, PLOS ONE (Feb. 2014).

Settlement Patterns of the Central Yucatan and Southern Campeche Regions (1978)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard E. W. Adams.

Settlement Scaling and Increasing Returns in an Ancient Society (2015)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Ortman.

Main text and SI of published paper in PDF format. The SI includes a series of datasets derived from the Basin of Mexico surveys that are analyzed in the main text.

Settlement Zone Communities of The Greater Blue Creek Area - Occasional Paper 2 (2000)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Lichtenstein.

The present work is an archaeological study of the settlement zone of the greater Blue Creek Area, located in the upper Rio Hondo drainage of northwestern Belize. The excavation data reported here were recovered during the 1997 and 1998 field seasons of the Maya Research Program's Blue Creek Project inder the direction of Dr. Thomas H. Guderjan PhD.

Situating Power and Locating Knowledge: A Paleoethnobotanical Perspective on Late Classic Maya Gender and Social Relations (2008)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chris Morehart. Christophe Helmke.

Viewing household production in terms of a political economic balance of “give and take” circumvents difficulties related to gender attribution in archaeology and challenges timeless gender stereotypes. This chapter proposes such an archaeological approach to gender by examining the charcoal assemblages from two Late Classic period Maya archaeological sites in the upper Belize Valley of western Belize. These sites occupied distinct positions within a complex political economic landscape, and...

Skulls from Operation 2011 at Colha: a Preliminary Examination. in the Colha Project Second Season, 1980 Interim Report (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Gentry Steele. Jack D. Eaton. A. J. Taylor.

Skywatching in the Ancient World: New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy (2007)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

Compiled in honor of Anthony F. Aveni, America's leading archaeoastronomer, Skywatching in the Ancient World offers state-of-the-art work in cultural astronomy by well-known experts in Mayan glyphic studies, cultural history, ethnohistory, and the history of science and of religions. This collection's wide range of outstanding scholarship reveals that cultural astronomy has come into its own. The diverse topics addressed by the contributors include the correlation between Colonial Northern...

Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community (2008)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dean E. Arnold.

How and why do ceramics and their production change through time? Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community is a unique ethno-archaeological study that attempts to answer these questions by tracing social change among potters and changes in the production and distribution of their pottery in a single Mexican community between 1965 and 1997. Dean E. Arnold made ten visits to Ticul, Yucatan, Mexico, witnessing the changes in transportation...

Social Reactors Project datasets

PROJECT Uploaded by: Scott Ortman

Datasets from various publications of the Social Reactors Project

Some Comments On Manihot Subsistence and the Ancient Maya (1971)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ursula M. Cowgill.

The Southern Maya in the Late Preclassic: The Rise and Fall of an Early Mesoamerican Civilization (2011)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

From 400 BC to AD 250, the southern Maya region was one of the most remarkable civilizations of the ancient Americas. Filled with great cities linked by flourishing long-distance trade, shared elite ideologies, and a vibrant material culture, this region was pivotal not only for the Maya but for Mesoamerica as a whole. Although it has been of great interest to scholars, gaps in the knowledge have led to debate on the most vital questions about the southern region. Recent research has provided a...

Spatial Patterns and Regional Growth Among Classic Maya Cities (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard E. W. Adams. Richard C. Jones.

Stephen Reichardt's Independent Resources

PROJECT Uploaded by: Stephen Reichardt

This project contains all of your independent information resources. These are information resources that you have not explicitly associated with any project.

Stone Tool Use at Cerros: the Ethnoarchaeological and Use-Wear Evidence (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne M. Lewenstein.

The Storm God, Feathered Serpents, and Possible Rulers at Teotihuacan (2007)

DOCUMENT Full-Text George Cowgill.

In this paper, George Cowgill focuses on how Mesoamericans used worldviews and ideologies in sociopolitical ways. More specifically, Cowgill argues that specific sociopolitical ideologies arise when there is a shared worldview.

STR13_COURTYARDNOTES_1993_1995 (2011)