Tikal
Subtitle: dynasties, foreigners & affairs of state : advancing Maya archaeology
By: edited by Jeremy A. Sabloff.
Contributors: Sabloff, Jeremy A.
Series: School of American Research advanced seminar series
Publisher: School of American Research Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Santa Fe, N.M
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9781930618213; 9781930618220; 9780852559345
Subjects: Mayas -- Kings and rulers; Mayas -- Urban residence; Mayas -- Commerce; Heads of state -- Succession -- Guatemala -- Tikal Site; City planning -- Guatemala -- Tikal Site; Inscriptions, Mayan -- Guatemala -- Tikal Site; Tikal Site (Guatemala); Guatemala -- Antiquities
Description: "Twelve leading scholars address questions crucial to Maya archaeology: the timing of the foundation of the Tikal dynasty and the initial indications of sociopolitical complexity, the meaning behind the sixth-seventh century hiatus in monument erection at the site, and the nature of the reassertion of central authority at Tikal with the political and military triumphs of Jasaw Chan K'awiil."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-402) and index.
Table of contents: title: In line of the founder: a view of dynastic politics at Tikal / Simon Martin; title: The ceramics of Tikal / T. Patrick Culbert; title: Beyond the catalog: the chronology and contexts of Tikal artifacts / Hattula Moholy-Nagy; title: Settlement, society, and demography at Tikal / William A. Haviland; title: The peripheries of Tikal / Robert E. Fry; title: The central acropolis of Tikal / Peter D. Harrison; title: The Tikal renaissance and the East Plaza ball court / Christopher Jones; title: The North Acropolis: monumentality, function, and architectural development / H. Stanley Loten; title: Plaza plans at Tikal: a research strategy for inferring social organization and processes of culture change at lowland Maya sites / Marshall Joseph Becker; title: Thirty years later: some results of recent stigations in Tikal / Juan Pedro Laporte; title: Tikal and the Copan dynastic founding / Robert J. Sharer.