The Classic Maya (Cambridge World Archaeology) - Softcover

Houston, Stephen D.

 
9780521669726: The Classic Maya (Cambridge World Archaeology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521669723 ISBN 13: 9780521669726
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

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In the first millennium AD, the Classic Maya created courtly societies in and around the Yucatan Peninsula that have left some of the most striking intellectual and aesthetic achievements of the ancient world, including large settlements like Tikal, Copan, and Palenque. This book is the first in-depth synthesis of the Classic Maya. It is richly informed by new decipherment of hieroglyphs, decades of intensive excavation and survey. Structured by categories of person in society, it reports on kings, queens, nobles, gods, and ancestors, as well as the many millions of farmers and other figures who lived in societies predicated on sacred kingship and varying political programs. The Classic Maya presents a tandem model of societies bound by moral covenants and convulsed by unavoidable tensions between groups, affected by demographic trends and changing environments. It will serve as the basic source for all readers interested in the civilisation of the Maya.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Stephen Houston is the Dupee Family Professor of Social Sciences at Brown University. The author of numerous books and articles, he is also an archaeologist who has excavated and mapped Classic Maya cities for more than 25 years. A MacArthur Fellow, Houston is also the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation.

Takeshi Inomata is Professor in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He has conducted archaeological investigation at the Maya Center of Aguateca and at Ceibal in Guatemala. His numerous publications examine Maya political organization, warfare, architecture, households, and social change.

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Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0521669723
ISBN 13 
9780521669726
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
402
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