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  • Maya Blue

    Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment

    de Dean E. Arnold ...
    Series series Path to Open
    One of the great technological achievements of the ancient Maya, Maya Blue is one the world’s most unusual ancient pigments. In Maya Blue, Dean E. Arnold offers a comprehensive history of its study for almost a century, filled with personal anecdotes drawn from his decades of work uncovering the Maya knowledge of its constituents, its ancient sources, and how it was made—including previously ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge

    Cognition, Engagement, and Practice

    de Dean E. Arnold ...
    Based on fieldwork and reflection over a period of almost fifty years, Maya Potters’ Indigenous Knowledge utilizes engagement theory to describe the indigenous knowledge of traditional Maya potters in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico. In this heavily illustrated narrative account, Dean E. Arnold examines craftspeople’s knowledge and skills, their engagement with their natural and social environments, the ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community

    de Dean E. Arnold ...
    In The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community, Dean E. Arnold continues his unique approach to ceramic ethnoarchaeology, tracing the history of potters in Ticul, Yucatán, and their production space over a period of more than four decades. This follow-up to his 2008 work Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution uses narrative to trace the ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

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  • Ancient Maya Commerce

    Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

    Edición de Scott R. Hutson ...
    Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico—a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil is a rare example of a Maya city in which economics, not political rituals, served as the engine of ... Leer más

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  • Prehistory of South America

    Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent

    de Jerry D. Moore ...
    A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology.For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Amazonia in the Anthropocene

    People, Soils, Plants, Forests

    de Nicholas C. Kawa ...
    Widespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an age dominated by humanity. This ethnography is the first to directly engage the Anthropocene, tackling its problems and paradoxes from the vantage point of the world’s largest tropical rainforest.Drawing from extensive ethnographic research, Nicholas ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Maya Forest Garden

    Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands

    de Anabel Ford, Ronald Nigh ...
    Series series New Frontiers in Historical Ecology
    The conventional wisdom says that the devolution of Classic Maya civilization occurred because its population grew too large and dense to be supported by primitive neotropical farming methods, resulting in debilitating famines and internecine struggles. Using research on contemporary Maya farming techniques and important new archaeological research, Ford and Nigh refute this Malthusian explanation ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Los Primeros Mexicanos

    Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene People of Sonora

    de Guadalupe Sánchez ...
    Series Libro 76 - Anthropological Papers
    In 1927, near the town of Folsom, New Mexico, a spectacular discovery altered our understanding of early humans on the American continent. Scientists excavating a bison from the late Pleistocene age discovered a fluted projectile point wedged between the animal’s ribs—forceful evidence that humans existed during the Ice Age together with now-extinct animals. Subsequent discoveries at nearby Clovis ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Imperfect Balance

    Landscape Transformations in the Pre-Columbian Americas

    Edición de David Lentz ...
    Series series Historical Ecology Series
    We often envision the New World before the arrival of the Europeans as a land of pristine natural beauty and undisturbed environments. However, David Lentz offers an alternative view by detailing the impact of native cultures on these ecosystems prior to their contact with Europeans. Drawing on a wide range of experts from the fields of paleoclimatology, historical ecology, paleontology, botany, ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • From Foraging to Farming in the Andes

    New Perspectives on Food Production and Social Organization

    Edición de Tom D. Dillehay ...
    Archeologists have always considered the beginnings of Andean civilization from c.13,000 to 6,000 years ago to be important in terms of the appearance of domesticated plants and animals, social differentiation, and a sedentary lifestyle, but there is more to this period than just these developments. During this period, the spread of crop production and other technologies, kinship-based labor ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca

    Edición de Arthur A. Joyce ...
    Encapsulating two decades of research, Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca is the first major treatment of the lower Río Verde region of Oaxaca, investigating its social, political, and ecological history. Tracing Formative period developments from the earliest known evidence of human presence to the collapse of Río Viejo (the region's first centralized polity), the volume ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • The Cerrados of Brazil

    Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Savanna

    Edición de Paulo Oliveira, Robert Marquis ...
    While the imperiled Brazilian rainforest has been the focus of considerable international media attention and conservation efforts, the massive grasslands of Brazil—known as the cerrados—which cover roughly a quarter of its land surface and are among the most threatened regions in South America, have received little notice. This book brings together leading researchers on the area to produce the ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD