Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics

• Author(s): James Doyle,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 170
• ISBN_10: 1107145376
  ISBN_13: 9781107145375
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Architecture / General , Architecture / History / General , Architecture / History / Ancient & Classical , History / Latin America / Central America , History / Latin America / Mexico , History / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas , Nature / General , Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American , Social Science / Archaeology , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- One Introduction -- The Preclassic Maya -- Overview of the Ancient Maya -- Pushing the Limits -- Constructing Social Meanings -- Urbanism and Politics -- Social Transformations: Gathering, Monumentalization, and Abandonment as Resilience -- Two Setting -- Preclassic Cultural Traditions -- Central Lowlands -- Petén Lakes and Eastward -- Southern Plateau Boundary -- El Mirador Area -- El Palmar, Guatemala: Case Study -- Three Mesoamerican and Maya Monumentality, Identity, and Politics -- The Archaeology of Monumentality -- Mesoamerican Monumentality and Kingship -- Maya Monumentality -- Maya Invisible Dwellings and Invisible Gatherings -- The First (Detectable) Settlements: 1000-700 BC -- The Rise of Rectangularity: 700-500 BC -- Conclusions -- Four Middle Preclassic Maya E-Group Plazas: Distribution and Geopolitics, 800-300 BC -- Early Maya Construction Techniques -- E-Groups -- E-Group Chronology -- E-Group Form -- E-Group Distribution and Early Maya Politics -- Constructing E-Group Meaning in the Middle Preclassic -- Religious Implications -- Conclusions -- Five The Architecture and Spaces of the Early Ajaw, ca. 300-1 BC -- Late Preclassic Maya Architectural Techniques -- Central Lowlands Monumental Architecture and Sculpture -- The Monumentalization of E-Groups -- Late Preclassic El Palmar E-Group Chronology -- Central Lowlands Triadic Groups -- Investigations in the El Palmar Triadic Group -- Triadic Groups and Late Preclassic Site Planning -- Prior Research on Maya Site Planning -- The Triadic Group and Preclassic Maya Site Planning -- Meanings of Late Preclassic Site Planning -- Monumental E-Groups: Under Whose Authority? -- Conclusions: Motivations for and Effects of Maya Monumentalization -- Six Migration and Abandonment