Routledge Archaeology of the Ancient Americas
Routes, Interaction and Exchange in the Southern Maya Area
1st Edition
Edited
By Eugenia Robinson, Gavin Davies
December 18, 2024
This book explores routes of interaction and exchange in the Southern Maya Area, a zone that had both short- and long-distance trade and whose natural resources were exploited by merchants and rulers, colonists and entrepreneurs during Olmec, Teotihuacan, Maya, Aztec, colonial and modern times. The...
3,000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands: Identity, Politics, and Violence
1st Edition
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By Geoffrey E. Braswell
March 31, 2022
3,000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands presents the cutting-edge research of 25 authors in the fields of archaeology, biological anthropology, art history, ethnohistory, and epigraphy. Together, they explore issues central to ancient Maya identity, political history, and warfare. The ...
Settlement Ecology of the Ancient Americas
1st Edition
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By Lucas C. Kellett, Eric Jones
December 12, 2019
In this exciting new volume several leading researchers use settlement ecology, an emerging approach to the study of archaeological settlements, to examine the spatial arrangement of prehistoric settlement patterns across the Americas. Positioned at the intersection of geography, human ecology, ...
Vernacular Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas
1st Edition
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By Christina Halperin, Lauren Schwartz
December 12, 2019
Vernacular Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas reveals the dynamism of the ancient past, where social relations and long-term history were created posthole by posthole, brick by brick. This collection shifts attention away from the elite and monumental architectural traditions of the region ...
Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas
1st Edition
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By Sarah Barber, Arthur A. Joyce
September 25, 2017
This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion ...