Ancient Maya: The Rise and Fall of a Rainforest Civilization (Case Studies in Early Societies, Series Number 3)

Demarest, Arthur

ISBN 10: 0521533902 / ISBN 13: 9780521533904

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Ancient Maya: The Rise and Fall of a Rainforest Civilization (Case Studies in Early Societies, Series Number 3)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521533902
• ISBN-13: 9780521533904
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: good

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Inhaltsangabe

Ancient Maya comes to life in this new holistic and theoretical study of the rise, florescence and decline of the cities of this most sophisticated civilization. Drawing on new, unpublished data, Arthur Demarest draws lessons for contemporary society and the modern Maya peoples struggling to re-emerge.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr Demarest is the Ingram Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. For more than twenty-five years he has directed archaeological field excavations at ancient sites in the highlands, coasts and rain forests of Central America and is considered a leading authority on early Olmec, particularly Mayan civilization.