Interdisciplinary approaches to the ancient Maya underworld : exploring the rise and fall of Maya centres in central Belize from the cave context

Parallelsachtitel: Exploring the rise and fall of Maya centres in central Belize from the cave context
1. Verfasser: Morton, Shawn , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford, UK : BAR Publishing, 2018.
Umfang/Format: xvi, 187 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm.
Schriftenreihe: BAR international series 2910
BAR international series. Archaeology of the Maya ; v. 2
Schlagworte:
Mayas > Rites and ceremonies.
Mayas > Social life and customs.
Mayas > Religion.
Mayas > Religious life and customs.
Mayas > Antiquities.
Caves > Belize > Religious aspects.
Sacred space > Belize.
Antiquities
Caves > Religious aspects
Mayas > Antiquities
Mayas > Religion
Mayas > Rites and ceremonies
Mayas > Social life and customs
Sacred space
Belize > Antiquities.
Belize.
Belize > History.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. An introduction to the archaeology of Central Belize and our focus of study
  • 2. The study of ritual
  • 3. The cave as a concept: the epigraphic and iconographic corpus
  • 4. The cave as concept: the ethnographic and indigenous historic study of Maya cave use
  • 5. The archaeology of Maya cave use
  • 6. Hinterland cave sites, part I: Caves Branch Rockshelter Cave, AC Cave, Actun Neko
  • 7. Hinterland cave sites, part II: Actun Lubul Ha
  • 8. Cave sites in the core: Mark's Cave, Junction Cave, TCU s.21, TCU s.11 (Str. 8), TCU s.05, and TCU s.08
  • 9. Beyond the cave mouth: polity growth and development between the Roaring Creek and Caves Branch River valleys.

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