Approaches to Monumental Landscapes of the Ancient Maya

List of Figures

List of Plates

List of Tables

Foreword

Preface

1.How the Maya Shaped Their World
Marcello Canuto, Brett A. Houk, Barbara Arroyo, and Terry Powis

2.The Holocene Occupations of Southern Belize
Keith M. Prufer and Douglas J. Kennett

3.The Natural and Constructed Landscape of Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala
Brent K. S. Woodfill and Marc Wolf

4.Ritual Practice, Urbanization, and Sociopolitical Organization at Preclassic Ceibal, Guatemala
Melissa Burham, Takeshi Inomata, Daniela Triadan, and Jessica MacLellan

5.From Urban Core to Vacant Terrain: Defining the Heterotopia of Maya Monumental Landscapes at the Cross-roads of the Middle Belize Valley
Eleanor Harrison-Buck, Mark Willis, Chester Walker, Satoru Murata, and Marieka Brouwer Burg

6.Caracol’s Impact on the Landscape of the Classic Period Maya: Urbanism and Complex Interaction in a Tropical Environment
Diane Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase, and Adrian S. Z. Chase

7.The Monumental Aquascape of Kaminaljuyu: Water in the Archaeology of an Early Highland Site
Bárbara Arroyo and Lucia Henderson

8.All the World’s a Stage: The Late Classic Built Environment of Chan Chich, Belize
Brett A. Houk and Ashley Booher

9.La Corona: Negotiating a Landscape of Power
Marcello A. Canuto and Tomás Barrientos Q.

10.Ancient Maya Queenship: Generations of Crafting State Politics and Alliance Building from Kaanul to Waka’
Olivia C. Navarro-Farr, Keith Eppich, Griselda Pérez Robles, and David A. Freidel

11.Landscapes of Warfare, Détente, and Trade in the Maya West
Charles W. Golden and Andrew K. Scherer

12.Monumental Landscapes as Instruments of Radical Economic Change: The Rise and Fall of a Maya Economic Network
Arthur A. Demarest, Bart Victor, Chloé Andrieu, and Paola Torres

13.A Discussion of Early Monumentality at Pacbitun, Belize
Terry G. Powis, George Micheletti, Jon Spenard, and Sheldon Skaggs

14.Monumental Landscapes, Changing Ideologies, and Political Histories in the Mopan Valley
M. Kathryn Brown and Jason Yaeger

15.Capturing the Forest: Ancient Maya Ritual Caves as Built Environments
Holley Moyes

16.Monumental Landscapes of the Maya: Cogitating on a Past Built Environment
Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase

References

List of Contributors

Index