El Perú-Waka: New Archaeological Perspectives on the Kingdom of the Centipede (Maya Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813069939 ISBN 13: 9780813069937

Verlag: University Press of Florida, 2024

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Recent research and discoveries at aprominent Maya rainforest city

 

This volume presentsthe most current research on the ancient Maya city El Perú-Waka’, or “Kingdomof the Centipede.” Located in the Laguna del Tigre National Park of Guatemala,this city has been a major focus of recent archaeological inquiry, which hasuncovered a long occupation at the site spanning from 300 BC to 1000 CE. Thechapters in El Perú-Waka’ examine the Maya who lived here and the rainforestcity they built, complete with its pyramids, palaces, temples, roads,reservoirs, and residences.

Contributorsreconstruct urban settlement patterns, look at health and dietary differencesbetween elites and commoners, and analyze epigraphy and art, among other topics.The book includes a detailed discussion of the tomb of the city’s famous queen,Lady K’abel, showing that the queen’s choice to be interred within Waka’s mostprominent dynastic monument demonstrates the power of Maya royal women to notonly direct political discourse during their lives but also impact the reignsof their successors.

Theevidence in this volume indicates the city’s importance in the political andritual landscape of the Maya Lowlands, and with the site’s long record ofhabitation and dense population, this book offers researchers an unmatched viewof ancient life in a tropical urban environment.

Contributors:  MatthewC. Ricker | Damien B. Marken | Juan Carlos Pérez | Diana N. Fridberg | OliviaC. Navarro-Farr | Sarah Van Oss | David Freidel | Griselda Pérez Robles | ElsaDamaris Menéndez | Mary Kate Kelly | Erin E. Patterson | Michelle Rich | KeithEppich

 

Avolume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Keith Eppich, professor of history and archaeology at TJC-The College of East Texas, is coeditor of Breath and Smoke: Tobacco Use among the Maya.

Damien B. Marken, associate professor of anthropology at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, is coeditor of Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism: Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics.


David A. Freidel, professor of anthropology emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, is coeditor of The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World: Mythic History and Ritual Order.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0813069939
• ISBN 13: 9780813069937
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 311
• Herausgeber: Eppich Keith, Marken Damien B., Freidel David
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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