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El Perú-Waka’

Name: El Perú-Waka’
Author: Keith Eppich
ISBN: 9780813069937

New Archaeological Perspectives on the Kingdom of the Centipede

Edited by Keith Eppich, Damien B. Marken and David Freidel

Published by: University Press of Florida

Series: Maya and Mesoamerican Studies

Presenting the most current research on the Maya rainforest city El Perú-Waka’, this volume discusses occupation at the site spanning from 300 BC to 1000 CE and offers researchers an unmatched view of ancient life in a tropical urban environment.

420 Pages6.13 × 9.2573 b/w illus., 4 tables, notes, bibliography, index

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Recent research and discoveries at a prominent Maya rainforest city

This volume presents the most current research on the ancient Maya city El Perú-Waka’, or “Kingdom of the Centipede.” Located in the Laguna del Tigre National Park of Guatemala, this city has been a major focus of recent archaeological inquiry, which has uncovered a long occupation at the site spanning from 300 BC to 1000 CE. The chapters in El Perú-Waka’ examine the Maya who lived here and the rainforest city they built, complete with its pyramids, palaces, temples, roads, reservoirs, and residences.

Contributors reconstruct urban settlement patterns, look at health and dietary differences between elites and commoners, and analyze epigraphy and art, among other topics. The book includes a detailed discussion of the tomb of the city’s famous queen, Lady K’abel, showing that the queen’s choice to be interred within Waka’s most prominent dynastic monument demonstrates the power of Maya royal women to not only direct political discourse during their lives but also impact the reigns of their successors.

The evidence in this volume indicates the city’s importance in the political and ritual landscape of the Maya Lowlands, and with the site’s long record of habitation and dense population, this book offers researchers an unmatched view of ancient life in a tropical urban environment.

Keith Eppich, professor of history and archaeology at TJC–The College of East Texas, is coeditor of Breath and Smoke: Tobacco Use among the Maya. Damien B. Marken, associate professor of anthropology at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, is coeditor of Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism: Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics. David A. Freidel, professor of anthropology emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, is coeditor of The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World: Mythic History and Ritual Order.

“Compiles years of research at an important and strategically situated Maya city, synthesizing archaeological and epigraphic data to provide a compelling narrative of life at the site. Notably, this volume places people at the center of archaeological interpretation of the past, highlighting the lives and afterlives of the city’s inhabitants, alongside the other-than-human agency imbued into their material culture and monuments.”—Whittaker Schroder, University of Florida
“Weaves the material facts recovered by archaeological work, textual information, and iconographic reconstruction of events with novel interpretations of social, political, and ideological aspects of the long historical record.”—Rodrigo Liendo Stuardo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Foreword

Part 1. El Perú-Waka’ in the Maya World

Chapter 1. Introduction to a Ruined City
Keith Eppich, Damien B. Marken, and Juan Carlos Pérez

Chapter 2. Waka’ on the International Stage
Mary Kate Kelly, David Freidel, and Olivia C. Navarro-Farr

Part 2. The Lived Urban Landscape

Chapter 3. Fire, Earth, and Water: Settlement, Soils, and Hydrology at El Perú-Waka’
Damien B. Marken and Matthew C. Ricker

Chapter 4. Repeopling the Cityscape of El Perú-Waka’: Classic Maya Social Models in an Urban Context
Keith Eppich

Chapter 5. The Ancient Inhabitants of Waka’: Osteology, Demography, and Pathology of the Burials and Ritual Deposits
Erin E. Patterson

Part 3. Creating Monumental Landscapes and Experiences

Chapter 6. Lady K’abel and the City’s Temple: Reinforcing Cosmic Order through Sacred Architecture
Olivia C. Navarro-Farr, Juan Carlos Pérez, and Griselda Pérez Robles

Chapter 7. Iconographic Analysis of a Royal Funerary Ceramic: Examining the Serpent Vessel from Burial 61
Sarah Van Oss and Olivia C. Navarro-Farr

Chapter 8. Who Is the Pyramid? The Maya Tombs of a Royal Ancestral Structure and the Personing of Architecture at El Perú-Waka’
Michelle Rich and Keith Eppich

Chapter 9. The Royal Palace of Waka’: A Preclassic to Terminal Classic Seat of Power
Griselda Pérez Robles, Juan Carlos Pérez, David Freidel, and Elsa Damaris Menéndez

Chapter 10. Animals in the Portal: Zooarchaeological Investigations at El Perú-Waka’, Structure M12-44, the Cuartito
Diana N. Fridberg

Chapter 11. World-Making: Turtle Mountain and the Oracle of Waka’
David Freidel

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