Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica
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Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica

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Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica

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A fresh examination of variable social and economic processes, Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica explores nascent social complexity during the Preclassic/Formative period in Mesoamerica and addresses broader social questions about egalitarian and transegalitarian prehispanic Mesoamerican cultural groups.
 
Contributors present multiple lines of evidence demonstrating the process of social complexity and reconsider a number of traditionally accepted models and presumed tenets as a result of the wealth of empirical data that has been gathered over the past four decades. Their chapters approach complexity as a process rather than a state of being by exploring social aggregation, the emergence of ethnic affiliations, and aspects of regional and macroregional variability.
 
Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica presents some of the most recent data—and the implications of that data—for understanding the development of complex societies as human beings moved into urban environments. The book is an especially important volume for researchers and students working in Mesoamerica, as well as archaeologists taking a comparative approach to questions of complexity.
 

Contributors: Jaime J. Awe, Sarah B. Barber, Jeffrey S. Brezezinski, M. Kathryn Brown, Ryan H. Collins, Kaitlin Crow, Lisa DeLance, Gary M. Feinman, Sara Dzul Gongora, Guy David Hepp, Arthur A. Joyce, Rodrigo Martin Morales, George Micheletti, Deborah L. Nichols, Terry G. Powis, Zoe J. Rawski, Prudence M. Rice, Michael P. Smyth, Katherine E. South, Jon Spenard, Travis W. Stanton, Wesley D. Stoner, Teresa Tremblay Wagner
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Preface
  8. 1. Framing Complexity
  9. 2. Heterarchy and the Emergence of Social Complexity in Early Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico
  10. 3. Pottery and Society during the Preclassic Period at YaxunĂĄ, YucatĂĄn
  11. 4. The Emergence of Complex Imagery on Late Terminal Formative Gray Ware Pottery from Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico
  12. 5. The Beginnings of Complexity in the Central Petén Lakes Area
  13. 6. Shifting Ceramic Styles in the Formative Period Basin of Mexico
  14. 7. Urban Organization and Origins of Complexity in the Puuc Region of Northern YucatĂĄn
  15. 8. The Role of Monumental Architecture and Landscape Modification in the Development of Complexity at Early Xunantunich, Belize
  16. 9. The Complexity of Figurines: Ancestor Veneration at Cahal Pech, Cayo, Belize
  17. 10. From Shell Beads to Symbolic Royal Bodies: A Diachronic Comparison of Body Ornamentation Production, Consumption, and Social Complexity at Prehispanic Pacbitun, Belize
  18. 11. Why the Mesoamerican Formative Period Matters: Vantages on Human Aggregation and Cooperation
  19. Index
  20. About the Authors