Maya palaces and elite residences
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary approach
By: edited by Jessica Joyce Christie.
Contributors: Christie, Jessica Joyce, 1956-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Maya architecture; Mayas -- Dwellings; Mayas -- Kings and rulers; Palaces -- Latin America; Latin America -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Elite residences at Blue Creek, Belize / Thomas H. Guderjan, Robert J. Lichtenstein and C. Colleen Hanratty; title: At court in Copan : palace groups of the early classic / Loa P. Traxler; title: A multipurpose structure in the late classic palace at Copan / E. Wyllys Andrews V ... [et al.]; title: Palaces of the Royal Court at Tikal / Peter D'Arcy Harrison; title: The political acquisition of sacred geography : the Murciélagos complex at Dos Pilas / Arthur Demarest ... [et al.]; title: Where did elites live? Identifying elite residences at Aquateca, Guatemala / Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan; title: Access patterns in Maya royal precincts / Rodrigo Liendo Stuardo; title: Evidence for the functions and meanings of some northern Maya palaces / Jeff Karl Kowalski; title: The function of a Maya palace at Yaxuna : a contextual approach / James N. Ambrosino; title: Palace and society in the Northern Maya Lowlands / Edward B. Kurjack; title: The tripartite layout of rooms in Maya elite residences : symbolic centering, ritual mediating and historical governing / Jessica Joyce Christie.