Overview

This volume summarizes many aspects of more than twenty years of field research at the ancient Maya city of Blue Creek in northwestern Belize. Blue Creek was a medium-sized Maya kingdom whose wealth was built upon access to large-scale and high-quality agricultural lands and its location at the headwaters of the Rio Hondo. The Rio Hondo is the northern-most river draining the Maya lowlands into the Caribbean Sea and provided access to markets and polities of northern Yucatan. The studies in the volume provide an overview of Blue Creek combined with detailed studies of aspects of production, trade, distribution, and the organization and functional interactions within the community.

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Author:   Thomas Guderjan
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Weight:   0.997kg
ISBN:  

9781407320694

ISBN 10:   1407320696
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   29 April 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1. The Blue Creek Archaeological Project 1992-2014 Thomas H. Guderjan 2. Implementing Multiple Research Strategies: A Case Study from Blue Creek, Belize Thomas H. Guderjan 3. Water, Stone and Soil: A Preliminary Investigation into the Location of Selected Sites in Far North-west Belize in Relation to Critical Natural Resources Gail A. Hammond 4. Late and Terminal Classic Social Stratification Dynamics at Blue Creek Dominick Van den Notelaer 5. Chan Cahal: Socio-economic Dynamics in an Agrarian Maya Community Dominick Van den Notelaer 6. Environmental Assessment of Blue Creek: Preliminary List of Woody Tree Species Encountered in the Region Kirsten Tripplett and Ruperto Magana 7. Wetland Investigations at Blue Creek: The Early Years (1996-2000) Jeff Baker 8. The Other Side of the Looking Glass? Obsidian from Blue Creek, Belize Helen R. Haines and Michael D. Glascock 9. Maya Political Economy: A Spatial, Temporal, and Contextual Analysis of Jade Deposits throughout the Southern Lowlands Christina G. Marroquin 10. The Blue Creek Faunal Assemblage Norbert Stanchly 11. The Shaft Caches of Structure 4: An Analysis of the Archaeological Evidence and Symbolism Lyssabeth C. Pedersen 12. An Evaluation of Evidence for Formative Economic Behavior: Artifact Assemblage Diversity at Chan Cahal Colleen P. Popson5pt;font-family:""Verdana"",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>"

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Thomas Guderjan directs the Blue Creek Archaeological Project, a large-scale, regional, multi-national and multi-disciplinary effort to better understand the Maya past. He is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Social Sciences Research at the University of Texas at Tyler, as well as the President of Maya Research Program, a non-profit research organization. Contributors: Jeff Baker, Michael D. Glascock, Thomas H. Guderjan, Helen R. Haines, Gail A. Hammond, Ruperto Magana, Christina G. Marroquin, Dominick Van den Notelaer, Lyssabeth C. Pedersen, Colleen P. Popson, Norbert Stanchly, Kirsten Tripplett

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