Perspectives on Ancient Maya Rural Complexity


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Series: Monographs 49
ISBN: 978-1-931745-06-2
Publication Date: Dec 2003
Price: Pb $9.95, Ebook $10.00
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Gyles Iannone Samuel V. Connell

Settlement archaeology in the Maya area has focused much of its attention on the polar extremes of the settlement continuum. As a result of this urban/rural bias, a whole range of complex rural settlements Perspectives on Ancient Maya Rural Complexityremain under-explored. The chapters in this volume highlight the variable quality of these "middle level settlements."

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Perspectives on Ancient Maya Rural Complexity: An Introduction by Gyles Iannone and Samuel V. Connell
Chapter 2. Aspects of Maya Settlement Archaeology, 1999 by Wendy Ashmore 
Chapter 3. Rural Complexity in the Cahal Pech Microregion: Analysis and Implications by Gyles Iannone
Chapter 4. Making Sense of Variability Among Minor Centers: The Ancient Maya of CHaa Cree, Belize by Samuel V. Connell
Chapter 5. Small Settlements in the Upper Belize River Valley: Local Complexity, Household Strategies of Affliation, and the Changing Organization by Jason Yaeger
Chapter 6. Identifying Urban and Rural Settlement Components: An Examination of Classic Period Plazuela Group Function at the Ancient Maya Site of Baking Pot, Belize by James M. Conlon and Allan F. Moore
Chapter 7 Wetlands, Rivers, and Caves:Agricultural and Ritual Practice in Two Lowland Maya Landscapes by Patricia A. McAnany, Kimberly A. Berry, and Ben S. Thomas
Chapter 8 Space and the Limits to Community by Laura Levi    
Chapter 9. Suburban Organization : Minor Centers at La Milpa, Belize by Gair Tourtellot, Gloria Everson, and Norman Hammond
Chapter 10. Minor Centers, Complexity, and Scale in Lowland Maya Settlement Archaeology by Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Chapter 11. Laguna de On and Caye Coco: Economic Differentiation at Two Postclassic Island Communities in Northern Belize by Marilyn A. Masson
Chapter 12. Coping with Diversity by  Edward M. Schortman and Patricia A. Urban