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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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Guderjan, Thomas H.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2007.
Collection:Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (x, 169 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-165) and index.
ISBN:9780817381929
0817381929
0817315659
9780817315658