Early New World Monumentality - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081306144X ISBN 13: 9780813061443

Verlag: University Press of Florida, 2015

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"Compare[s] and synthesize[s] "monumentality" during the North American Archaic and Latin American Formative periods. The term connotes a built environment with one or more characteristics: religious and administrative structures, public works, agricultural terracing, and irrigation systems, as well as political power, centralized decision making, social stratification, and labor organization and expenditure. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice

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In this collection, prominent archaeologists explore the sophisticated political and logistical organizations that were required to plan and complete these architectural marvels. They discuss the long-term political, social, and military impacts these projects had on their respective civilizations, and illuminate the significance of monumentality among early complex societies in the Americas. Early New World Monumentality is ultimately a study of labor and its mobilization, as well as the long-term spiritual awe and political organization that motivated and were enhanced by such undertakings. Mounds and other impressive monuments left behind by earlier civilizations continue to reveal their secrets, offering profound insights into the development of complex societies throughout the New World.

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• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 081306144X
• ISBN 13: 9780813061443
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 502
• Herausgeber: Burger Richard L, Rosenswig Robert M