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Ancient Maya pottery : classification, analysis, and interpretation /

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A volume of classification, interpretation, and analysis of Maya pottery using the type: variety-mode approach, exploring how communities in the region interacted through the lens of ceramic exchange.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953-, Chase, Diane Z., Aimers, James J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
Series:Maya studies.
Subjects:
Mayas > Antiquities.
Maya pottery > Classification.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / James J. Aimers
  • 2. Type-variety: what works and what doesn't / Prudence M. Rice
  • 3. Types and traditions, spheres and systems: a consideration of analytic constructs and concepts in the
  • Classification and interpretation of Maya ceramics / Cassandra R. Bill
  • 4. Interpreting form and context: ceramic subcomplexes at Caracol, Nohmul, and Santa Rita Corozal, Belize / Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
  • 5. Ceramic resemblances, trade, and emulation: changing utilitarian pottery traditions in the Maya Lowlands / Robert E. Fry
  • 6. Type-variety on trial: experiments in classification and meaning using ceramic assemblages from Lamanai, Belize / James J. Aimers and Elizabeth Graham
  • 7. Establishing the Cunil Ceramic Complex at Cahal Pech, Belize / Lauren A. Sullivan and Jaime J. Awe
  • 8. Technological style and terminal preclassic orange ceramics in the Holmul Region, Guatemala / Michael G. Callaghan, Francisco Estrada-Belli, and Nina Neivens de Estrada
  • 9. Acanmul, Becán, and the Xcocom phenomenon through a type-variety looking glass: resolving historical enigmas through hands-on typological assessments / Joseph Ball and Jennifer Taschek
  • 10. Looking for times: how type-variety analysis helps us "see" the Early postclassic in Northwestern Honduras / Patricia A. Urban, Edward M. Schortman, and Marne T. Ausec
  • 11. Slips, styles, and trading patterns: a postclassic perspective from Central Peten, Guatemala / Leslie G. Cecil
  • 12. Mayapán's Chen Mul modeled effigy censers: iconography and archaeological context / Susan Milbrath and Carlos Peraza Lope
  • 13. Problems and prospects in Maya ceramic classification, analysis, and interpretation / James J. Aimers.