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3,000 years of war and peace in the Maya lowlands : identity, politics, and violence /

3,000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands presents the cutting-edge research of 25 authors in the fields of archaeology, biological anthropology, art history, ethnohistory and epigraphy. Together, they explore issues central to ancient Maya identity, political history and warfare. The Maya l...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Braswell, Geoffrey E. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2022].
Series:Routledge archaeology of the ancient Americas.
Subjects:
Mayas > Antiquities.
Mayas > Kings and rulers.
Mayas > Politics and government.
Mayas > Social conditions.
Maya pottery.
Maya architecture.
Inscriptions, Mayan.
Mexico > Antiquities.
Central America > Antiquities.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of contributors
  • Identity, politics, & violence: an introduction to 3,000 years of war and peace in the Maya Lowlands / Geoffrey E. Braswell
  • Identity and power of the earliest Maya: preclassic architecture and cultural development of Nakum and Yaxha, Peten, Guatemala / Bernard Hermes and JarosÅ,aw ZÌ?raÅ,ka
  • Migration and conflict, or emulation and interaction? the Belize Valley during the middle preclassic / Nancy Peniche May, Jaime J. Awe, and Claire E. Ebert
  • Southern Belize from Paleoindian to preclassic times: introduction to the region, early origins, and identity / Geoffrey E. Braswell
  • The southern Belize region in early to late classic period Mesoamerica: first settlement, Nim li Punit, and Uxbenka / Geoffrey E. Braswell
  • The southern Belize region in late to terminal classic period Mesoamerica: Pusilha, Lubaantun, and identity / Geoffrey E. Braswell
  • Queens and statecraft: royal women in the heart of the Fire Shrine at El PeruÌ?-Waka' / Olivia C. Navarro-Farr, Damien Marken, Mary Kate Kelly, Keith Eppich, Griselda PeÌ?rez Robles, and Juan Carlos PeÌ?rez
  • Architecture as a material representation of sociopolitical structure: an analysis of Lowland Maya palace complexes in the late eighth century / TomaÌ?s Barrientos Q.
  • As the B'ak'tun turned: reconstructing classic to postclassic population dynamics in the Belize River Valley / Julie A. Hoggarth, Carolyn Freiwald, Claire E. Ebert, Christophe Helmke, Jaime J. Awe , Kirsten Green Mink, Patricia Powless, and Ashley H. McKeown
  • Dzehkabtun: crisis and violence in the terminal classic / Iken Paap
  • Foreign encounters: warfare, trade, and status at Chichen Itza / Annabeth Headrick and John W. Hoopes
  • The sustenance providers: war, sacrifice, and the origin of people in ancient Mesoamerica / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
  • Power and politics on the late colonial frontier of British Honduras / Brooke Bonorden and Brett A. Houk
  • Index.