Human adaptation in ancient Mesoamerica : empirical approaches to Mesoamerican archaeology

Weitere Verfasser: Gonlin, Nancy , [HerausgeberIn]
French, Kirk D. , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2016].
Umfang/Format: xxix, 374 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Section 1: Introduction
  • Foreward / by George R. Milner
  • Empirical archaeology and human adaptation in Mesoamerica / by Kirk D. French and Nancy Gonlin
  • Section 2: Water & land
  • Water temples and civil engineering at Teotihuacan, Mexico / by Susan Toby Evans and Deborah L. Nichols
  • Measuring the impact of land cover change at Palenque, Mexico / by Kirk D. French and Christopher J. Duffy
  • Complementarity and synergy : stones, bones, soil and toil in the Copan Valley, Honduras / by John D. Wingard
  • Section 3: Population & settlement studies
  • Chronology, construction, and the abandonment process : a case study from the classic Maya kingdom of Copan, Honduras / by AnnCorinne Freter and Elliot M. Abrams
  • The map leads the way : archaeology in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico / by Stephen L. Whittington and Nancy Gonlin
  • Section 4: Reconstruction & burial analysis
  • The excavation and reconstruction of Group 8N-11, Copan, Honduras : the process of discovery and re-discovery / by Randolph J. Widmer and Rebecca Storey
  • The Maya in the middle : an analysis of sub-royal archaeology at Copan, Honduras / by David M. Reed and W. Scott Zeleznik
  • Section 5: Political economy
  • Life under the classic Maya Turtle Dynasty of Piedras Negras, Guatemala / by Zachary Nelson
  • The production, exchange, and consumption of pottery vessels during the classic period at Tikal, Peten, Guatemala / by Kirk Damon Straight
  • Section 6: Reflections & discussion
  • Forty years in Peten, Guatemala : a hagiographic prosopography / by Don S. Rice and Prudence M. Rice
  • Two Katun archaeologist / by David Webster.