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The nature of an ancient Maya city : resources, interaction, and power at Blue Creek, Belize /
For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components includin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including monumental ceremonial structures, elite and non-elite residences, ditched agricultural fields, and residential clusters just outside the core. Since 1992, a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research team has intensively investigated Blue Creek in an integrated study of the dynamic structure and. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 169 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-165) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817381929 0817381929 0817315659 9780817315658 |