The Origins of Maya Civilization

Description

Editor: Adams, Richard E.W.  (1931-2015) Semper Fi

Publisher: University of New Mexico Pressand the School of American Research Press

Pub Date: 1978

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Smudging to bottom text block and upper rear cover.  Light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Conference papers.  “The fifteen papers of this volume are the results of a conference in New Mexico in 1974. The papers of T. Patrick Culbert on Tikal, Norman Hammond on Belize, Richard E. W. Adams on the Río Bec, Joseph Ball on Yucatán, Gordon Willey on the Pasión Valley and Robert Rands on the Palenque area provide the best summary of Maya archaeology now available, emphasizing the diversity of different Maya areas. Individual papers examine the role of warfare (David Webster), trade (William Rathje), environmental diversity (William Sanders) and intensive agriculture (Robert Netting, through an interesting comparison with the Ibo). External relationships with the Mixe-Zoquean group (Olmec and Izapan) are considered in papers by Michael Coe, Jacinto Quirarte and Gareth Lowe (a tour de force showing the contant presence of Zoquean peoples on the western frontier of the Mayas).”  ( https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article/58/3/493/150386)  The transformation of Maya culture from a village-oriented society to one centered on elite classes living in large civic centers with monumental architecture.