The Origins of Maya States / / ed. by Loa P. Traxler, Robert J. Sharer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Canuto, Marcello A.,; Clark, John E.,; Cyphers, Ann,; Estrada-Belli, Francisco,; Grove, David C.,; Hammond, Norman,; Hansen, Richard D.,; King, Eleanor M.,; Love, Michael,; Martin, Simon,; Runggaldier, Astrid,; Sharer, Robert J.,; Traxler, Loa P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Sharer, Robert J.,; Traxler, Loa P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (704 p.) :; 124 illus.

The Pre-Columbian Maya were organized into a series of independent kingdoms or polities rather than unified into a single state. The vast majority of studies of Maya states focus on the apogee of their development in the classic period, ca. 250-850 C.E. As a result, Maya states are defined according...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The Origins of Maya States: Problems and Prospects
• 2. Maya States: The Theoretical Background in Historical Overview
• Part One: The Mesoamerican Context
• 3. Preclassic Central Mexico: The Uncertain Pathway from Tlatilco to Teotihuacan
• 4. The Early Preclassic Olmec: An Overview
• 5. Western Kingdoms of the Middle Preclassic
• Part Two: The Maya Area
• 6. Regional and Interregional Interactions and the Preclassic Maya
• 7. Early States in the Southern Maya Region
• 8. Cultural and Environmental Components of the First Maya States: A Perspective from the Central and Southern Maya Lowlands
• Part Three: Theoretical Contexts
• 9. Rethinking the Role of Early Economies in the Rise of Maya States: A View from the Lowlands
• 10. Middle Preclassic Maya Society: Tilting at Windmills or Giants of Civilization?
• 11. Ideology and the Early Maya Polity
• References