Precolumbian water management : ideology, ritual, and power

Weitere Verfasser: Fash, Barbara W., 1955-
Lucero, Lisa Joyce, 1962-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2006.
Umfang/Format: vi, 304 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0816523142
978-0-8165-2314-6
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Online-Zugang: Table of contents only
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Precolumbian water management : an introduction / Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash
  • Cosmological and sociopolitical synergy in preclassic architectural complexes / Ann Cyphers ... [et al.]
  • A land that tastes of water / Ann Cyphers and Judith Zurita-Noguera
  • Water management and political economy in formative period central Mexico / Deborah L. Nichols ... [et al.]
  • Water management at Kaminaljuyu : the beginnings of power and ideology in the Guatemalan highlands / Juan Antonio Valdés
  • Environmental variability among bajos in the southern Maya lowlands and its implications for ancient Maya civilization and archaeology / Nicholas P. Dunning, Timothy Beach, and Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach
  • Water management, ritual, and community in tropical complex societies / Julie L. Kunen
  • The political and sacred power of water in classic Maya society / Lisa J. Lucero
  • Copan water ritual and management : imagery and sacred place / Barbara W. Fash and Karla L. Davis-Salazar
  • Archaeological and epigraphic evidence for water management and ritual at Palenque / Kirk D. French, David S. Stuart, and Alfonso Morales
  • Hydraulic features of the Mexico-Texcoco lakes during the postclassic period / Margarita Carballal Staedtler and María Flores Hernández
  • Water sources at Mayapan, Yucatán, Mexico / Clifford T. Brown
  • Animated waters : ritual technology at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua / William H. Walker and Gaea McGahee
  • Mirror of the earth : water, landscape, and meaning in the Precolumbian Southwest / James E. Snead
  • An overview of Mesoamerican water systems / Vernon Scarborough.