Ancient Maya Pottery
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Ancient Maya Pottery

Classification, Analysis, and Interpretation

  1. 311 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Ancient Maya Pottery

Classification, Analysis, and Interpretation

About this book

The ancient Maya produced a broad range of ceramics that has attracted concerted scholarly attention for over a century. Pottery sherds--the most abundant artifacts recovered from sites--reveal much about artistic expression, religious ritual, economic systems, cooking traditions, and cultural exchange in Maya society.

Today, nearly every Maya archaeologist uses the type-variety classificatory framework for studying sherd collections. This impressive volume brings together many of the archaeologists signally involved in the analysis and interpretation of ancient Maya ceramics and represents new findings and state-of-the-art thinking. The result is a book that serves both as a valuable resource for archaeologists involved in pottery classification, analysis, and interpretation and as an illuminating exploration of ancient Mayan culture.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Tables
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Introduction
  8. 2. Type-Variety: What Works and What Doesn’t
  9. 3. Types and Traditions, Spheres and Systems: A Consideration of Analytic Constructs and Concepts in the Classification and Interpretation of Maya Ceramics
  10. 4. Interpreting Form and Context: Ceramic Subcomplexes at Caracol, Nohmul, and Santa Rita Corozal, Belize
  11. 5. Ceramic Resemblances, Trade, and Emulation: Changing Utilitarian Pottery Traditions in the Maya Lowlands
  12. 6. Type-Variety on Trial: Experiments in Classification and Meaning Using Ceramic Assemblages from Lamanai, Belize
  13. 7. Establishing the Cunil Ceramic Complex at Cahal Pech, Belize
  14. 8. Technological Style and Terminal Preclassic Orange Ceramics in the Holmul Region, Guatemala
  15. 9. Acanmul, BecĂĄn, and the Xcocom Phenomenon through a Type-Variety Looking Glass: Resolving Historical Enigmas through Hands-On Typological Assessments
  16. 10. Looking for Times: How Type-Variety Analysis Helps Us “See” the Early Postclassic in Northwestern Honduras
  17. 11. Slips, Styles, and Trading Patterns: A Postclassic Perspective from Central Petén, Guatemala
  18. 12. Mayapán’s Chen Mul Modeled Effigy Censers: Iconography and Archaeological Context
  19. 13. Problems and Prospects in Maya Ceramic Classification, Analysis, and Interpretation
  20. References
  21. Contributors
  22. Index