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Quiriguá Reports, Volume III

Archaeological Investigations in the Lower Motagua Valley, Izabal, Guatemala

By: Edward M. Schortman

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Quiriguá Reports, Volume III

Archaeological Investigations in the Lower Motagua Valley, Izabal, Guatemala

By: Edward M. Schortman

From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at Quiriguá, a major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala, in order to document the basic chronology, determine the nature and pattern of structures, and test hypotheses concerning the origins, location, and demise of the city. This monograph reports the findings of the survey and excavations carried out in the lower Motagua Valley. Providing a regional context for Quiriguá, this volume focuses on wider-valley centers with monumental architecture, examining their chronology, function, and regional and interregional contacts. University Museum Monograph, 80

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UPenn Museum of Archaeology

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0924171197

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9780924171192

Ancient Southeast Mesoamerica

Political Economies without the State

By: Patricia A. Urban,Edward M. Schortman

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Ancient Southeast Mesoamerica

Political Economies without the State

By: Patricia A. Urban,Edward M. Schortman

Ancient Southeast Mesoamerica explores the distinctive development and political history of the region from its earliest inhabitants up to the Spanish conquest. It demonstrates how inhabitants from different locales were organized within a matrix of social networks, and how they mobilized the assets that they needed to achieve their own goals.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316800083

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Studies in Culture Contact

Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

By: James G. Cusick

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Studies in Culture Contact

Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

By: James G. Cusick

People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic. Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture contact in human history, to identify issues in the study of culture contact in archaeology, and to provide a critical overview of the major theoretical approaches to the study of culture and contact. In this collection of essays, anthropologists and archaeologists working in Europe and the Americas consider three forms of culture contact—colonization, cultural entanglement, and symmetrical exchange. Part I provides a critical overview of theoretical approaches to the study of culture contact, offering assessments of older concepts in anthropology, such as acculturation, as well as more recently formed concepts, including world systems and center-periphery models of contact. Part II contains eleven case studies of specific contact situations and their relationships to the archaeological record, with times and places as varied as pre- and post-Hispanic Mexico, Iron Age France, Jamaican sugar plantations, European provinces in the Roman Empire, and the missions of Spanish Florida. Studies in Culture Contact provides an extensive review of the history of culture contact in anthropological studies and develops a broad framework for studying culture contact’s role, moving beyond a simple formulation of contact and change to a more complex understanding of the amalgam of change and continuity in contact situations.

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SIU Press

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0809334100

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Quiriguá Reports, Volume III

Quiriguá Reports, Volume III

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Ancient Southeast Mesoamerica

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