Ancient Maya Politics: A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150–900 CE, Simon Martin

Автор: Houk Brett A.
Название: Ancient Maya Cities of the Eastern Lowlands
ISBN: 081305415X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813054155
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: For more than a century researchers have studied Maya ruins, and sites like Tikal, Palenque, Copan, and Chichen Itza have shaped our understanding of the Maya. Yet cities of the eastern lowlands of Belize, an area that was home to a rich urban tradition that persisted and evolved for almost 2,000 years, are treated as peripheral to these great Classic period sites. The hot and humid climate and dense forests are inhospitable and make preservation of the ruins difficult, but this oft-ignored area reveals much about Maya urbanism and culture. Using data collected from different sites throughout the lowlands, including the Vaca Plateau and the Belize River Valley, Brett Houk presents the first synthesis of these unique ruins and discusses methods for mapping and excavating them. Considering the sites through the analytical lenses of the built environment and ancient urban planning, Houk vividly reconstructs their political history, considers how they fit into the larger political landscape of the Classic Maya, and examines what they tell us about Maya city building.

Автор: Markus Eberl
Название: War Owl Falling: Innovation, Creativity, and Culture Change in Ancient Maya Society
ISBN: 0813056551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813056555
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Описание: Drawing on archaeological findings from the Maya lowlands, War Owl Falling shows how innovation and creativity led to social change in ancient societies. Markus Eberl discusses the ways eighth-century Maya (and Maya commoners in particular) reinvented objects and signs that were associated with nobility, including scepters, ceramic vessels, ballgame equipment, and the symbol of the owl. These inventions, he argues, reflect assertions of independence and a redistribution of power that contributed to the Maya collapse in the Late Classic period. Eberl emphasizes that individual decision-making – the ability to imagine alternate worlds and to act on that vision – plays a large role in changing social structure over time. Pinpointing where and when these Maya inventions emerged, how individuals adopted them and why, War Owl Falling connects technological and social change in a novel way.

Автор: Adams
Название: An Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC–AD 900
ISBN: 1107039770 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107039773
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book illustrates the changing character of Latin over 1000 years, through detailed linguistic commentaries on fifty passages. Aimed at students of Latin interested in diachronic change and sociolinguistic variation, and at Latin and Romance historical linguists, it will also interest social and cultural historians and students of Biblical and Christian Latin.

Автор: Flad
Название: Ancient Central China
ISBN: 0521727669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521727662
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book is an archaeological study of regional landscape in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of Central China. The book reviews anthropological perspectives on interregional interaction and landscape and provides an up-to-date synthesis of archaeological discoveries in the region, including the recently flooded Three Gorges Dam area.

Автор: J. N. Adams
Название: An Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC–AD 900: Fifty Texts with Translations and Linguistic Commentary
ISBN: 1108729975 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108729970
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book illustrates the changing character of Latin over 1000 years, through detailed linguistic commentaries on fifty passages. Aimed at students of Latin interested in diachronic change and sociolinguistic variation, and at Latin and Romance historical linguists, it will also interest social and cultural historians and students of Biblical and Christian Latin.

Автор: Laufer Berthold
Название: Sino-Iranica: China and Ancient Iran
ISBN: 1784532010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784532017
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: In this major study - regarded as his most important work - the pioneering anthropologist, Berthold Laufer documents the cultural transfers that took place between China and Iran in ancient times.

Автор: Bettini Maurizio
Название: World through Roman Eyes
ISBN: 1107157617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107157613
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Описание: Showcases the fundamental contribution that anthropology has made to our understanding of ancient Roman culture. Allows the texts of ancient culture to speak in their own terms and privileges the experience of the natives (rather than the horizon of the observer).

Автор: Vogel Melissa A.
Название: The Casma City of El Purgatorio: Ancient Urbanism in the Andes
ISBN: 0813062152 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813062150
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Описание: "Defines the Casma culture and demonstrates its importance in late Andean prehistory for the north coast of Peru. Vogel's pioneering work at El Purgatorio sets the stage for anticipated future studies."--Thomas Pozorski, University of Texas-Pan American

"This detailed study fills a major gap in coastal Andean prehistory while also addressing broader issues of ancient urbanism and the variability of urban forms in pre-industrial societies."--Daniel H. Sandweiss, University of Maine

The Casma state, which flourished on the north coast of Peru in the centuries before European contact, is an important and vastly understudied ancient culture. Its capital city, El Purgatorio, was inhabited from ca. 700-1400 AD. The rise and fall of El Purgatorio spans a period of dynamic transition in Andean history but has rarely been mentioned in previous research.

Melissa Vogel investigates this extensive, monumental urban site in The Casma City of El Purgatorio. Using the city's architecture and spatial organization, its rituals, religion, and mortuary practices, its political economy, and other material evidence, she describes the people who lived there. A culmination of Vogel's sixteen-year study of the Casma culture, this book demonstrates how ancient cities help us understand the development and collapse of complex societies.

A volume in the series Ancient Cities of the New World, edited by Michael E. Smith, Marilyn A. Masson, and John W. Janusek

Автор: Hutson Scott R.
Название: The Ancient Urban Maya: Neighborhoods, Inequality, and Built Form
ISBN: 0813062764 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813062761
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Описание: "Important and timely, Hutson's analysis of Maya cities in their constituent neighborhoods marks a new milestone in the study of Maya urbanism."--Cynthia Robin, author of Everyday Life Matters: Maya Farmers at Chan

"Working through a myriad of definitions for urbanization and defining aspects of those often missing from archaeological discussions, Hutson provides the best perspective to date on the complexities of ancient 'urban' life and life decisions by the prehistoric Maya."--Fred Valdez Jr., coeditor of Ancient Maya Commoners

Ancient cities were complex social, political, and economic entities, but they also suffered from inequality, poor sanitation, and disease--often more than rural areas. In The Ancient Urban Maya, Scott Hutson examines ancient Maya cities and argues that, despite the hazards of urban life, these places continued to lure people for many centuries. With built forms that welcomed crowds, neighborhoods that offered domestic comforts, marketplaces that facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas, and the opportunities to expand social networks and capital, the Maya used their cities in familiar ways.

Автор: Baumer Christoph
Название: History of Central Asia
ISBN: 1780760604 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780760605
Издательство: I B Tauris
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Описание: The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations. This work charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatians; Soviets and transcontinental Silk Roads; trade routes and the transmission of ideas across the steppes; and, the breathless and brutal conquests of Alexander the Great and Chinghiz Khan.

Автор: Bleda S. D??ring,Claudia Glatz
Название: Kinetic Landscapes: The Cide Archaeological Project: Surveying the Turkish Western Black Sea Region
ISBN: 3110444968 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110444964
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: Turkey’s northern edge is a region of contrasts and diversity. From the rugged peaks of the Pontic mountains and hidden inland valleys to the plains and rocky alcoves of the Black Sea coast, this landscape shaped and was shaped by its inhabitants’ ways of life, their local cultural traditions, and the ebbs and flows of land-based and maritime networks of interaction. Between 2009 and 2011, an international team of specialists and students of the Cide Archaeological Project (CAP) investigated the challenging landscapes of the Cide and S?enpazar districts of Kastamonu province. CAP presents the first systematic archaeological survey of the western Turkish Black Sea region. The information gathered by the project extends its known human history by 10,000 years and offers an unprecedented insight into the region’s shifting cultural, social and political ties with Anatolia and the Circumpontic. This volume presents the project’s approach and methodologies, its results and their interpretation within period-specific contexts and through a long-term landscape perspective.

Название: Ceramics in circumpolar prehistory
ISBN: 1107118247 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107118249
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The book is for archaeologists interested in the adaptations and social lives of people in the prehistoric Circumpolar North. It is also targeted at archaeologists and historians interested in the history of technologies, specifically pottery cooking technologies, and the motivations and obstacles that lay behind their adoption into new regions.