Macanche Island, El Petan, Guatemala: Excavations, Pottery, and Artifacts
by Prudence M Rice
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0813008387
- ISBN 13
- 9780813008387
- Seller
-
Boone, North Carolina, United States
3 Copies Available from This Seller
(You can add more at checkout.)
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
"This work makes a solid contribution to our understanding of a poorly known era in cenral lowland Maya prehistory.... It also provides stratigraphic evidence for phasing the subdivisions of the Postclassic era, offering important support for a detailed chronology of this era in the central lowlands--an unresolved and disputed issue until now." -- Robert J. Sharer, University of Pennsylvania "Rice has written the best and most comprehensive study of Postclassic pottery from the southern Maya lowlands. We have precious few windows into the panorama of late Maya history in the Peten, and the ceramics, although they can never tell us all we wish to know, give us some of the most detailed information we are ever likely to have on the centuries after the southern Maya collapse" -- E. Wyllys Andrews V, Tulane University In reconsidering the transition from the Classic to the Postclassic period of Maya civilization in the Department of Peten, Guatemala, Prudence Rice challenges traditional concepts of demographic collapse in the southern lowlands. Using painstaking reconstructions of research by William Bullard and her own work, Rice argues that the rural outpost of Macanache Island in Peten continued to support a population during and long after the Classic Maya collapse, and she uses stratigraphic and ceramic evidence to illuminate the transition. Rice places the rural outpost of Macanche Island within the larger geographical context of the Yucatan peninsula during the Postclassic period. She weaves together analyses of the artifacts, largely ceramics, of Bullard's 1968 excavation with the artifacts found in later excavations focused on the Peten lake basins. Typological descriptions of the pottery are supplemented by analyses of function, slip, and paste and by discussions of locally manufactured and imported material.
This important book on a little-known era and site of Maya culture enables us to reconstruct and understand the role of rural outposts of a powerful civilization during a time of economic and political chaos. It greatly advances our understanding of the minutiae of change as well as the larger patten that they form.
Very nice condition book, may have price markings/sticker.
This important book on a little-known era and site of Maya culture enables us to reconstruct and understand the role of rural outposts of a powerful civilization during a time of economic and political chaos. It greatly advances our understanding of the minutiae of change as well as the larger patten that they form.
Very nice condition book, may have price markings/sticker.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Blue Ridge Book Gallery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0813008387
- Title
- Macanche Island, El Petan, Guatemala
- Author
- Prudence M Rice
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0813008387
- ISBN 13
- 9780813008387
- Publisher
- University of Florida Press
- Place of Publication
- Gainesville
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Archaeology Guatemala
- Bookseller catalogs
- Archaeology;
- Size
- Quarto
Terms of Sale
Blue Ridge Book Gallery
15 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. We do our best to ship within 48 hours to you and provide you with a tracking number.
About the Seller
Blue Ridge Book Gallery
Biblio member since 2016
Boone, North Carolina
About Blue Ridge Book Gallery
We offer a selection of rare, out-of-print, used, and collectible books, prints, and ephemera.