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Architecture and the origins of preclassic Maya politics

Doyle, James A., 1983- author

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\"Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics highlights the dramatic changes in the relationship of ancient Maya peoples to the landscape and to each other in the Preclassical period (ca. 2000 BC-250 AD). Offering a comprehensive history of Preclassic Maya society, James Doyle focuses on recent discoveries of early writing, mural painting, stone monuments, and evidence of divine kingship that have reshaped our understanding of cultural developments in the first millennium BC. He also addresses one of the crucial concerns of contemporary archaeology: the emergence of political authorities and their subjects in early complex polities. Doyle shows how architectural trends in the Maya Lowlands in the Preclassic period exhibit the widespread cross-cultural link between monumental architecture of imposing intent, human collaboration, and urbanism\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Maya architecture. / Mayas Politics and government. / Mayas Antiquities. / Architecture Political aspects Mexico History To 1500. / Architecture Political aspects Central America History To 1500. / Landscape archaeology Mexico. / Landscape archaeology Central America. / Social archaeology Mexico. / Social archaeology Central America.
• ISBN: 9781107145375

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
F1435.3.A6 D68 2017	1	BOOK	GENERAL