Construction of Maya space causeways, walls, and open areas from ancient to modern times

Introduction: Thinking about barriers and connectivity in Maya archaeological landscapes / Thomas H. Guderjan and Jennifer P. Mathews -- Causeways and geopolitical connections in the Ucí-Cansahcab region, Yucatán / Daniel Vallejo-Cáliz and Scott R. Hutson -- The axis connecting Classic Maya economy...

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Weitere Verfasser: Guderjan, Thomas H. (HerausgeberIn), Mathews, Jennifer P. (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Tucson University of Arizona Press 2023
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: Thinking about barriers and connectivity in Maya archaeological landscapes / Thomas H. Guderjan and Jennifer P. Mathews -- Causeways and geopolitical connections in the Ucí-Cansahcab region, Yucatán / Daniel Vallejo-Cáliz and Scott R. Hutson -- The axis connecting Classic Maya economy and ritual at Xunantunich, Belize / Bernadette Cap, M. Kathryn Brown, and Whitney Lytle -- Roads, temples, and the community boundaries of Cobá, Quintana Roo / Travis W. Stanton, Traci Ardren, Nicolas C. Barth, Juan Fernandez Diaz, Stephanie J. Miller, Karl A. Taube, Patrick Rohrer, Elizabeth Beckner, and Aline Magnoni -- Taming the jungle: Decauville railroads in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Yucatán / Jennifer P. Mathews -- The Chichén Itzá and Ek Balam borderlands / J. Gregory Smith and Alejandra Alonso Olvera -- Crossing the last Maya boundary: the central line of the military campaign, 1899-1904 / Alejandra Badillo Sánchez --
All in all, it's (not) just another brick in the wall: examining the diverse functions of wall architecture in western Belize / Jaime J. Awe and Shawn G. Morton -- Two tales of a city: the Sakbe'ob at Yo'okop from the viewpoints of elites and commoners / Justine M. Shaw and Alberto G. Flores Colin -- Changing perspectives on ancient Maya neighborhoods and houselots at Xnoha in northwest Belize / Thomas H. Guderjan, C. Colleen Hanratty, and Joshua H. Kwoka -- Prehistoric Albarradas at the site of Buena Vista, Cozumel / Adolfo Iván Batún-Alpuche -- An ethnoecological view of the evolution of Solares: a Yucatán Maya houselot case study / Grace Lloyd Bascopé and Elias Alcocer Puerto -- The identity that binds and the Albarradas that divide: residential space and ethnoarchaeology in Yaxunah, Yucatán / Héctor Hernández Álvarez -- Constructing a world beneath Quintana Roo / Carmen Rojas Sandoval, Miguel Covarrubias Reyna, and Dominique Rissolo --
Not seeing is believing: the production of space in ancient Maya cave sites / Holley Moyes
"This volume focuses on how powerful people of the ancient, historical, and contemporary periods in the Maya world used features such as walls, roads, rails, and symbolic boundaries to control those without power, and how the powerless pushed back"--
Beschreibung:viii, 432 Seiten
Illustrationen, Karten
24 cm
ISBN:9780816551873
978-0-8165-5187-3