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Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism: Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics

Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism: Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics

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ArchaeologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1646424085
ISBN13: 9781646424085
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: Jul 23 2023
Pages: 492
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism tears down entrenched misconceptions of Maya cities to build a new archaeology of Maya urbanism by highlighting the residential dynamics that underwrote one of the most famous and debated civilizations of the ancient Americas. Exploring the diverse yet interrelated agents and processes that modified Maya urban landscapes over time, this volume highlights the adaptive flexibility of urbanization in the tropical Maya lowlands.

Integrating recent lidar survey data with more traditional excavation and artifact-based archaeological practices, chapters in this volume offer broadened perspectives on the patterns of Maya urban design and planning by viewing bottom-up and self-organizing processes as integral to the form, development, and dissolution of Classic lowland cities alongside potentially centralized civic designs. Full of innovative examples of how to build an archaeology of urbanism that can be applied not just to the lowland Maya and across the region, Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism simultaneously improves interpretations of lowland Maya culture history and contributes to empirical and comparative discussions of tropical, non-Western cities worldwide.


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