The Southeast Maya Periphery /

The Southeast Maya Periphery / / ed. by Edward M. Schortman, Patricia A. Urban.

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Archaeologists are continually faced with a pervasive problem: How can cultures, and the interactions among cultures, be differentiated in the archaeological record? This issue is especially difficult in peripheral areas, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and southern Guatemala in the New World. Encomp...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Agurcia Fasquelle, Ricardo,
Ashmore, Wendy,
Baudez, Claude F.,
Beaudry, Marilyn P.,
Bishop, Ronald L.,
Cheek, Charles,
Demarest, Arthur A.,
Fash, William L.,
Jones, Christopher,
Kennedy, Nedenia C.,
Leventhal, Richard M.,
Olsen Bruhns, Karen,
Riese, Berthold,
Robinson, Eugenia J.,
Schortman, Edward M.,
Sharer, Robert J.,
Sheets, Payson D.,
Urban, Patricia A.,
Vlcek, David T.,
Willey, Gordon R.,
Wonderley, Anthony,
HerausgeberIn:
Schortman, Edward M.,
Urban, Patricia A.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1986
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • PART I. COPAN AND QUIRIGUA
  • 2. Iconography and History at Copan
  • 3. Archaeological Investigations in the Site Core of Quirigua, Guatemala
  • 4. Peten Cosmology in the Maya Southeast: An Analysis of Architecture and Settlement Patterns at Classic Quirigua
  • 5. Construction Activity as a Measurement of Change at Copan, Honduras
  • 6. History and Characteristics of Settlement in the Copan Valley, and Some Comparisons with Quirigua
  • 7. Late Classic Relationship between Copan and Quirigua: Some Epigraphic Evidence
  • 8. Survey in the Outlying Areas of the Copan Region, and the Copan-Quirigua "Connection"
  • 9. Interaction between the Maya and Non-Maya along the Late Classic Southeast Maya Periphery: The View from the Lower Motagua Valley, Guatemala
  • 10. A Reexamination of Stela Caches at Copan: New Dates for Copador
  • 11. Compositional Analysis of Copador and Related Pottery in the Southeast Maya Area
  • 12. Copan, Quirigua, and the Southeast Maya Zone: A Summary View
  • PART II. THE GREATER SOUTHEAST
  • 13. The Periphery Problem and Playa de los Muertos: A Test Case
  • 14. Late Preclassic Ceramic Spheres, Culture Areas, and Cultural Evolution in the Southeastern Highlands of Mesoamerica
  • 15. Natural Hazards, Natural Disasters, and Research in the Zapotitan Valley of El Salvador
  • 16. A Typological Study of Prehistoric Settlement of the Eastern Alluvial Fans, Sula Valley, Honduras: Comparison to Maya Settlement Forms
  • 17. Late Classic Settlements in the Comayagua Valley
  • 18. Precolumbian Settlement in the Naco Valley, Northwestern Honduras
  • 19. The Role of Commercial Agriculture in Early Post classic Developments in Central El Salvador: The Rise and Fall of Cihuatan
  • 20. Naco, Honduras—Some Aspects of a Late Precolumbian Community on the Eastern Maya Frontier
  • 21. Southeast Mesoamerican Periphery Summary Comments
  • 22. Summary of Southeastern Periphery Papers
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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