Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism: Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics

Author:   Damien B. Marken ,  M. Charlotte Arnauld
Publisher:   University Press of Colorado
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9781646424085


Pages:   492
Publication Date:   23 July 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
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Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism: Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics


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""Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism tears down misconceptions of Maya cities, building a new archaeology of Maya urbanism, highlighting the dynamics of an ancient civilization of the Americas. Exploring agents and processes that modified Maya urban landscapes, this volume highlights the flexibility of urbanization in the Maya lowlands""--

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Author:   Damien B. Marken ,  M. Charlotte Arnauld
Publisher:   University Press of Colorado
Imprint:   University Press of Colorado
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.792kg
ISBN:  

9781646424085


ISBN 10:   1646424085
Pages:   492
Publication Date:   23 July 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"""A dynamic multi-scalar view of Maya cities showing them to be long-lived, complex, ever-changing landscapes that included not only architecture but the larger agricultural landscape that helped sustain them--they were garden cities in a neotropical landscape."" --Claudia Garc�a-Des Lauriers, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona"


"""A dynamic multi-scalar view of Maya cities showing them to be long-lived, complex, ever-changing landscapes that included not only architecture but the larger agricultural landscape that helped sustain them--they were garden cities in a neotropical landscape."" --Claudia García-Des Lauriers, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona"


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Damien B. Marken is assistant professor of anthropology at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania–Bloomsburg and codirector of the Waka’ Archaeological Project in Guatemala. He is the editor of Palenque: Recent Investigations at the Classic Maya Center and coeditor of Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands. M. Charlotte Arnauld is an archaeologist and research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in France. She has directed or codirected five long-term projects in highland Verapaz and northwest lowland La Joyanca in Petén, Guatemala; Balamku and Río Bec in Campeche, Mexico; and Zacapu in western Mexico. Her publications include several authored and coedited books on the archaeology of Michoacán and the Maya lowlands including Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities and papers in numerous journals.

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