The Archaeology of Yucatán: New Directions and Data
Edited by Travis W. Stanton
Paperback (Published)
(October 2014)
ISBN: 9781784910082
8.27 x 11.69 inches
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This volume was conceived to provide a forum for Mexican and foreign scholars to publish new data and interpretations on the archaeology of the northern Maya lowlands, specifically the State of Yucatan.
This volume was conceived to provide a forum for Mexican and foreign scholars to publish new data and interpretations on the archaeology of the northern Maya lowlands, specifically the State of Yucatan. Increased communication among scholars has become increasingly important for grasping a better understanding of the great amount of data emerging from the State of Yucatan. There has been more salvage work conducted in this state than in any of the others throughout Mexico and the data is overwhelming. Because of this large amount of salvage work, archaeologists in the INAH office in Yucatan have had little time to publish the great majority of the new information. Further, many of the forums that are easily accessible to scholars in the northern lowlands have constrictive space restraints not conducive to publishing data. With these points in mind, this volume seeks to gather papers that did not necessarily have to have a theoretical focus, and that could be data laden so that the raw data from many of these projects would not be confined to difficult to access reports in the Merida and Mexico City offices. The result is a series of manuscripts on the northern lowlands, most of which focus on the State of Yucatan. Some of the papers are very data heavy, while others have a much more interpretive emphasis. Yet all of them contribute to a more complete picture of the northern lowland Maya.
Preface (Travis W. Stanton) ;
Part I The Hill Region Chapter 2: Powerful Buildings: The Syntactical Analysis of an Elite Residential Group (Anna Catesby Yant) ;
Chapter 3: Settlement Dynamics, Climate Change, and Human Response at Xcoch in the Puuc Region of Yucatán, Mexico (Michael P. Smyth, David Ortegón Zapata, Nicholas P. Dunning, and Eric M. Weaver) ;
Chapter 4: Xcoch: Home of Ancient Maya Rain Gods and Water Managers (Nicholas P. Dunning, Eric Weaver, Michael P. Smyth, and David Ortegón Zapata) ;
Part II The Western Plains Chapter 6: Cronología y asentamiento del sitio de Acanceh, Yucatán (Beatriz Quintal Suaste) ;
Chapter 7: Un enclave de Oxkintok en el norte de Caucel a inicios del Clásico Tardío: El desarrollo de la estructura Bu 17/26 011-006 (Mónica Rodríguez Pérez, Teresa Ceballos Gallareta y Rubén Chuc Aguilar) ;
Chapter 8: The Pottery of Xtobó, Yucatán, Mexico: A Case Study of Maya Pottery Analysis (David S. Anderson) ;
Chapter 9: Análisis iconográfico de una vasija del noroeste de Yucatán (José Daniel Martínez Gastélum y Concepción Hernández Hernández) ;
Chapter 10: San Pedro Cholul: un asentamiento arqueológico del Clásico Tardío en la región de Mérida, Yucatán, México (Luis Raúl Pantoja Díaz, Cecilia Medina Martín y María José Gómez Cobá) ;
Chapter 11: Las costumbres funerarias en la periferia de Mérida, Yucatán (Cecilia del Socorro Medina Martín, María José Gómez Cobá y Luis Raúl Pantoja Díaz) ;
Chapter 12: La región hegemónica de Dzibilchaltún en la época prehispánica (Rubén Maldonado Cárdenas y Ángel Góngora Salas) ;
Chapter 13: Investigaciones arqueológicas en la región centro-norte del Estado de Yucatán (Miguel Covarrubias Reyna y Rafael Burgos Villanueva) ;
Chapter 14: Regional Integration Involving Ucí and its Causeway (Scott R. Hutson) ;
Part III The Central and Eastern Plains Chapter 16: Desplazamiento de pintores de Ek’ Balam a Chichén Itzá tras el reinado y Muerte de Ukit Kan Lek’ Tok (María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Leticia Vargas de la Peña, Víctor R. Castillo Borges y Peter Schmidt) ;
Capítulo 17: A la sombra de Chichén Itzá: evaluando la iconografía de la región al suroeste de este sitio durante el Clásico Terminal (Aline Magnoni, Scott A. J. Johnson y Travis W. Stanton) ;
Chapter 18: A Discussion and Description of Pottery Types Identified at Popolá, Yucatán, Mexico (Scott A. J. Johnson) ;
Chapter 19: Late Classic Ceramic Technology and Its Social Implications at Yaxuná, Yucatán: A Petrographic Analysis of a Sample of Arena Group Ceramics (Tatiana Loya González and Travis W. Stanton) ;
Chapter 20: Una cueva colapsada en la Acrópolis Norte de Yaxuná (Travis W. Stanton y Nelda Issa Marengo Camacho) ;
Chapter 21: Las construcciones monumentales de Ek’ Balam (Leticia Vargas de la Peña y Víctor R. Castillo Borges) ;
Chapter 22: The Queen of Cobá: A Reanalysis of the Macanxoc Stelae (Stanley Paul Guenter) ;
PART IV COASTAL STUDIES Chapter 24: Isla Piedras: A Prehispanic Maya Trading Port on the Northern Campeche Coast (Armando F. Inurreta Díaz and Marieke W. Dusenbery) ;
PART V REGIONAL STUDIES Capítulo 26: Etnoanálisis, arqueología experimental y cerámica Maya de Yucatán: resultados de la resistencia tensil (Daniela Gremion, Travis W. Stanton y Rodrigo Martín Morales) ;
Chapter 27: The Sustainability of Prehispanic Maya Agroecosystems: Implications of Hunting and Animal Domestication in the Northern Maya Lowlands (Christopher M. Götz) ;
Chapter 28: Procesos de microadaptación de poblaciones arqueológicas en la península de Yucatán: la dinámica funcional del fémur (José Manuel Arias López) ;
Chapter 29: Mujeres mayas de elite: reinas belicosas (Lucía Quiñones y Sylviane Boucher)
- Edited by Travis W. Stanton
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