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  • Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island

    Complexity, Ritual, and Pottery

    by Prudence M. Rice ...
    Series series Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspectives
    Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theoriesRevisiting McKeithen Weeden Island further illuminates an Indigenous Late Woodland (ca. AD 200–900) mound-and-village community in northern Florida that was first excavated in the late 1970s. Since then, some artifacts received additional analyses, and the topic of prechiefdom societies ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Domestic Architecture and Power

    The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Ecuador

    by Ross W. Jamieson ...
    Series series Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
    Historical archaeology, one of the fastest growing of archaeology’s sub fields in North America, has developed more slowly in Central and p- ticularly South America. Happily, this circumstance is ending as a gr- ing number of recent projects are successfully integrating textual and material culture data in studies of the events and processes of the last 500 years. This interval and this region ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Pottery Analysis, Second Edition

    A Sourcebook

    by Prudence M. Rice ...
    Just as a single pot starts with a lump of clay, the study of a piece’s history must start with an understanding of its raw materials. This principle is the foundation of Pottery Analysis, the acclaimed sourcebook that has become the indispensable guide for archaeologists and anthropologists worldwide. By grounding current research in the larger history of pottery and drawing together diverse ... Read more

    $42.49 USD

  • Vintage Moquegua

    History, Wine, and Archaeology on a Colonial Peruvian Periphery

    by Prudence M. Rice ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    The microhistory of the wine industry in colonial Moquegua, Peru, during the colonial period stretches from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, yielding a wealth of information about a broad range of fields, including early modern industry and labor, viniculture practices, the cultural symbolism of alcohol consumption, and the social history of an indigenous population. Uniting these ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Space-Time Perspectives on Early Colonial Moquegua

    by Prudence M. Rice ...
    In this rich study of the construction and reconstruction of a colonized landscape, Prudence M. Rice takes an implicit political ecology approach in exploring encounters of colonization in Moquegua, a small valley of southern Peru. Building on theories of spatiality, spatialization, and place, she examines how politically mediated human interaction transformed the physical landscape, the people ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Maya Calendar Origins

    Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time

    by Prudence M. Rice ...
    Series series The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
    In Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos, Prudence M. Rice proposed a new model of Maya political organization in which geopolitical seats of power rotated according to a 256-year calendar cycle known as the May. This fundamental connection between timekeeping and Maya political organization sparked Rice's interest in the origins of the two major calendars used by the ancient ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Itzas of Petén, Guatemala

    Edited by Prudence M. Rice, Don S. Rice ...
    Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Itzas of Petén, Guatemala is the first exhaustively detailed and thorough account of the Itzas—a Maya group that dominated much of the western lowland area of tropical forest, swamps, and grasslands in Petén, Guatemala. Examining archaeological and historical evidence, Prudence Rice and Don Rice present a theoretical perspective on the Itzas’ ... Read more

    $59.09 USD

  • Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos

    Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya Figurines, Ritual, and Time

    by Prudence M. Rice ...
    Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos explores the sociocultural significance of more than three hundred Middle Preclassic Maya figurines uncovered at the site of Nixtun-Ch'ich' on Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala. In this careful, holistic, and detailed analysis of the Petén lakes figurines—hand-modeled, terracotta anthropomorphic fragments, animal figures, and musical instruments such as whistles ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Studies in Culture Contact

    Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

    by Kathleen Deagan, Prudence M. Rice, Robert L. Schuyler, Ann F. Ramenofsky, Edward M. Schortman, Patricia A. Urban, Jonathan D. Hill, Theresa A. Singleton, John Edward Terrell, Gil J. Stein, Stuart Tyson Smith, Michael Dietler, Peter S. Wells, Susan Toby Evans, Christopher R. DeCorse, Douglas V. Armstrong, Rebecca Saunders, Mark J. Wagner, Joel W. Palka, Rani T. Alexander ...
    People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Maya Political Science

    Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos

    by Prudence M. Rice ...
    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization, superordinate and subordinate status—with far-flung analogies to emerging states in Europe, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Lowland Maya Postclassic

    Edited by Arlen F. Chase, Prudence M. Rice ...
    This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    Edited by Joshua Englehardt, Michael D. Carrasco ...
    Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary contributions from leading scholars investigate linguistic exchange and borrowing, scribal practices, settlement patterns, ceramics, iconography, and trade systems, presenting a variety of ... Read more

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