Overview

This volume was conceived to provide a forum for Mexican and foreign scholars to publish new data and interpretations on the archaeology of the northern Maya lowlands, specifically the State of Yucatán. Increased communication among scholars has become increasingly important for grasping a better understanding of the great amount of data emerging from the State of Yucatán. There has been more salvage work conducted in this state than in any of the others throughout Mexico and the data is overwhelming. Because of this large amount of salvage work, archaeologists in the INAH office in Yucatán have had little time to publish the great majority of the new information. Further, many of the forums that are easily accessible to scholars in the northern lowlands have constrictive space restraints not conducive to publishing data. With these points in mind, this volume seeks to gather papers that did not necessarily have to have a theoretical focus, and that could be data laden so that the raw data from many of these projects would not be confined to difficult to access reports in the Mérida and Mexico City offices. The result is a series of manuscripts on the northern lowlands, most of which focus on the State of Yucatán. Some of the papers are very data heavy, while others have a much more interpretive emphasis. Yet all of them contribute to a more complete picture of the northern lowland Maya.

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Author:   Travis W. Stanton
Publisher:   Archaeopress
Imprint:   Archaeopress Archaeology
Edition:   UK ed.
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   2.210kg
ISBN:  

9781784910082

ISBN 10:   1784910082
Pages:   536
Publication Date:   10 October 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface (Travis W. Stanton) ; Part I The Hill Region ; Chapter 1: Death and Deer Riding among the Ancient Maya of Northwest Yucatan, Mexico (Daniel Grana-Behrens) ; Chapter 2: Powerful Buildings: The Syntactical Analysis of an Elite Residential Group (Anna Catesby Yant) ; Chapter 3: Settlement Dynamics, Climate Change, and Human Response at Xcoch in the Puuc Region of Yucatan, Mexico (Michael P. Smyth, David Ortegon Zapata, Nicholas P. Dunning, and Eric M. Weaver) ; Chapter 4: Xcoch: Home of Ancient Maya Rain Gods and Water Managers (Nicholas P. Dunning, Eric Weaver, Michael P. Smyth, and David Ortegon Zapata) ; Part II The Western Plains ; Chapter 5: Practicas funerarias y rituales en el Cenote San Jose de Mayapan (Stanley Serafin, Eunice Uc Gonzalez y Carlos Peraza Lope) ; Chapter 6: Cronologia y asentamiento del sitio de Acanceh, Yucatan (Beatriz Quintal Suaste) ; Chapter 7: Un enclave de Oxkintok en el norte de Caucel a inicios del Clasico Tardio: El desarrollo de la estructura Bu 17/26 011-006 (Monica Rodriguez Perez, Teresa Ceballos Gallareta y Ruben Chuc Aguilar) ; Chapter 8: The Pottery of Xtobo, Yucatan, Mexico: A Case Study of Maya Pottery Analysis (David S. Anderson) ; Chapter 9: Analisis iconografico de una vasija del noroeste de Yucatan (Jose Daniel Martinez Gastelum y Concepcion Hernandez Hernandez) ; Chapter 10: San Pedro Cholul: un asentamiento arqueologico del Clasico Tardio en la region de Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (Luis Raul Pantoja Diaz, Cecilia Medina Martin y Maria Jose Gomez Coba) ; Chapter 11: Las costumbres funerarias en la periferia de Merida, Yucatan (Cecilia del Socorro Medina Martin, Maria Jose Gomez Coba y Luis Raul Pantoja Diaz) ; Chapter 12: La region hegemonica de Dzibilchaltun en la epoca prehispanica (Ruben Maldonado Cardenas y Angel Gongora Salas) ; Chapter 13: Investigaciones arqueologicas en la region centro-norte del Estado de Yucatan (Miguel Covarrubias Reyna y Rafael Burgos Villanueva) ; Chapter 14: Regional Integration Involving Uci and its Causeway (Scott R. Hutson) ; Part III The Central and Eastern Plains ; Chapter 15: Procesos de abandono de una estructura domestica en Xuenkal durante el Clasico Tardio-Terminal (Daniel Vallejo Caliz y T. Kam Manahan) ; Chapter 16: Desplazamiento de pintores de Ek' Balam a Chichen Itza tras el reinado y Muerte de Ukit Kan Lek' Tok (Maria Luisa Vazquez de Agredos Pascual, Leticia Vargas de la Pena, Victor R. Castillo Borges y Peter Schmidt) ; Capitulo 17: A la sombra de Chichen Itza: evaluando la iconografia de la region al suroeste de este sitio durante el Clasico Terminal (Aline Magnoni, Scott A. J. Johnson y Travis W. Stanton) ; Chapter 18: A Discussion and Description of Pottery Types Identified at Popola, Yucatan, Mexico (Scott A. J. Johnson) ; Chapter 19: Late Classic Ceramic Technology and Its Social Implications at Yaxuna, Yucatan: A Petrographic Analysis of a Sample of Arena Group Ceramics (Tatiana Loya Gonzalez and Travis W. Stanton) ; Chapter 20: Una cueva colapsada en la Acropolis Norte de Yaxuna (Travis W. Stanton y Nelda Issa Marengo Camacho) ; Chapter 21: Las construcciones monumentales de Ek' Balam (Leticia Vargas de la Pena y Victor R. Castillo Borges) ; Chapter 22: The Queen of Coba: A Reanalysis of the Macanxoc Stelae (Stanley Paul Guenter) ; PART IV COASTAL STUDIES; Chapter 23: Vida y muerte en el puerto de Xcambo, Yucatan: datos arqueologicos, mortuorios y poblacionales (Thelma Sierra Sosa, Andrea Cucina, T. Douglas Price, James Burton y Vera Tiesler) ; Chapter 24: Isla Piedras: A Prehispanic Maya Trading Port on the Northern Campeche Coast (Armando F. Inurreta Diaz and Marieke W. Dusenbery) ; PART V REGIONAL STUDIES ; Chapter 25: The Importance of Place and Memory in the Maya Past: The Variable Appropriation of Ancient Settlement at Chunchucmil and Yaxuna, Yucatan, during the Terminal Classic (Aline Magnoni, Travis W. Stanton, and Scott R. Hutson) ; Capitulo 26: Etnoanalisis, arqueologia experimental y ceramica Maya de Yucatan: resultados de la resistencia tensil (Daniela Gremion, Travis W. Stanton y Rodrigo Martin Morales) ; Chapter 27: The Sustainability of Prehispanic Maya Agroecosystems: Implications of Hunting and Animal Domestication in the Northern Maya Lowlands (Christopher M. Goetz) ; Chapter 28: Procesos de microadaptacion de poblaciones arqueologicas en la peninsula de Yucatan: la dinamica funcional del femur (Jose Manuel Arias Lopez) ; Chapter 29: Mujeres mayas de elite: reinas belicosas (Lucia Quinones y Sylviane Boucher)

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