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Before the volcano erupted : the ancient Cerèn village in Central America
2002
Overview
On an August evening around AD 600, residents of the Cerén village in the Zapotitán Valley of what is now El Salvador were sitting down to their nightly meal when ground tremors and loud steam emissions warned of an impending volcanic eruption. The villagers fled, leaving their town to be buried under five meters of volcanic ash and forgotten until a bulldozer uncovered evidence of the extraordinarily preserved town in 1976. The most intact Precolumbian village in Latin America, Cerén has been called the Pompeii of the New World. This book and its accompanying CD-ROM and website (ceren.colorado.edu) present complete and detailed reports of the excavations carried out at Cerén since 1978 by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, ethnographers, volcanologists, geophysicists, botanists, conservators, and others. The book is divided into sections that discuss the physical environment and resources, household structures and economy, special buildings and their uses, artifact analysis, and topical and theoretical issues. As the authors present and analyze Cerén’s houses and their goods, workshops, civic and religious buildings, kitchen gardens, planted fields, and garbage dumps, a new and much clearer picture of how commoners lived during the Maya Classic Period emerges. These findings constitute landmark contributions to the anthropology and archaeology of Central America.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Subject
Animal remains (Archaeology) -- El Salvador -- Zapotitán Valley
/ Animal remains (Archaeology)-El Salvador-Zapotitán Valley
/ Mayas -- Urban residence -- El Salvador -- Zapotitán Valley
/ Plant remains (Archaeology) -- El Salvador -- Zapotitán Valley
/ Plant remains (Archaeology)-El Salvador-Zapotitán Valley
/ Social archaeology -- El Salvador -- Zapotitán Valley
/ Social archaeology-El Salvador-Zapotitán Valley
/ Urban Mayas-El Salvador-Zapotitán Valley
/ Volcanic ash, tuff, etc. -- El Salvador -- Zapotitán Valley
/ Volcanic ash, tuff, etc.-El Salvador-Zapotitán Valley
ISBN
9780292777613, 0292777612
