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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize

The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize

Guderjan, Thomas H.

Paperback

Series: Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory

Native American HistoryArchaeologyCentral American History

ISBN10: 0817354263
ISBN13: 9780817354268
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: Dec 9 2007
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.21 Depth: 9.17
Language: English
Reveals what daily Maya life was like

For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including monumental ceremonial structures, elite and non-elite residences, ditched agricultural fields, and residential clusters just outside the core. Since 1992, a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research team has intensively investigated Blue Creek in an integrated study of the dynamic structure and functional inter-relationships among the parts of a single Maya city. Documented in coverage by National Geographic, Archaeology magazine, and a documentary film aired on the Discovery Channel, Blue Creek is recognized as a unique site offering the full range of undisturbed architectural construction to reveal the mosaic that was the ancient city. Moving beyond the debate of what constitutes a city, Guderjan's long-term research reveals what daily Maya life was like.

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