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Chan : An Ancient Maya Farming Community /
The farming community of Chan thrived for over twenty centuries, surpassing the longevity of many larger Maya urban centers. Between 800 BC and 1200 AD it was a major food production center, and this collection of essays reveals the important role played by Maya farmers in the development of ancient...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Chan : |b An Ancient Maya Farming Community / |c edited by Cynthia Robin ; foreword by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Gainesville : |b University Press of Florida, |c 2012. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2013 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2012. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; list of figures; list of tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Introducing the Chan site: farmers in complex societies; Part 1. Time, space, and landscapes; 2. A changing cultural landscape: settlement survey and GIS at chan; 3. Ceramics and chronology at Chan; 4. Agricultural practices at chan: Farming and political economy in an Ancient Maya community; 5. Agroforestry and agricultural production of the ancient Maya at Chan; Part 2. Life in a farming community center; 6. Ritual in a farming community; 7. Nonroyal governance at Chan's community center. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 8. "Empty" spaces and public places: a microscopic view of Chan's late classic West plaza Part 3. Diversity across the Chan community; 9. Recognizing difference in small-scale settings: an examination of social identity formation at the Northeast group, Chan; 10. Organization of chert tool economy during the late and terminal classic periods at Chan: preliminary thoughts based upon debitage analyses; 11. Limestone quarrying and household organization at Chan; Part 4. Bodies, material culture, and meaning; 12. The Chan community: a bioarchaeological perspective. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 13. Creating community with shell14. Obsidian acquisition, trade, and regional interaction at Chan; 15. Contextualizing ritual behavior: caches, burials, and problematical deposits from Chan's community center; Part 5. Conclusion; 16. Learning from an ancient Maya farming community; References; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y. | |
| 520 | |a The farming community of Chan thrived for over twenty centuries, surpassing the longevity of many larger Maya urban centers. Between 800 BC and 1200 AD it was a major food production center, and this collection of essays reveals the important role played by Maya farmers in the development of ancient Maya society. Chan offers a synthesis of compelling and groundbreaking discoveries gathered over ten years of research at this one archaeological site in Belize. The contributors develop three central themes, which structure the book. | ||
| 546 | |a English. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Mayas |x Antiquities. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01012778 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Mayas |x Agriculture. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01012776 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Excavations (Archaeology) |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00917564 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Antiquities. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00810745 | |
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