Classic Maya provincial politics
Subtitle: Xunantunich and its hinterlands
By: edited by Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger.
Contributors: LeCount, Lisa Jeanne, 1955-; Yaeger, Jason, 1969-
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780816528844
Subjects: Social archaeology -- Belize River Valley (Guatemala and Belize); Mayas -- Belize River Valley (Guatemala and Belize) -- Politics and government; Mayas -- Belize River Valley (Guatemala and Belize) -- Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Belize River Valley (Guatemala and Belize); Xunantunich Site (Belize); Belize River Valley (Guatemala and Belize) -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Xunantunich archaeological project, 1991; title: 1997 / Richard M. Leventhal ... [et al.]; title: Provincial politics and current models of the Maya state / Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger; title: Antecedents, allies, antagonists : Xunantunich and its neighbors / Wendy Ashmore; title: A brief description of Xunantunich / Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger; title: Changing places : the castillo and the structure of power at Xunantunich / Richard M. Leventhal; title: The carved monuments and inscriptions of Xunantunich : implications for terminal classic sociopolitical relationships in the Belize Valley / Christophe Helmke, Jaime Awe, and Nikolai Grube; title: Monumental building programs and changing political strategies at Xunantunich / Thomas R. Jamison; title: Shifting political dynamics as seen from the Xunantunich palace / Jason Yaeger; title: Elite craft production of stone drills and slate at Group D, Xunantunich / Jennifer B. Braswell; title: The social construction of roads at Xunantunich, from design to abandonment / Angela H. Keller; title: Mount Maloney people? : domestic pots, everyday practice, and the social formation of the Xunantunich polity / Lisa J. LeCount; title: Landscapes of the Xunantunich hinterlands / Jason Yaeger; title: Population, intensive agriculture, labor value, and elite-commoner political power relations in the Xunantunich hinterlands / L. Theodore Neff; title: Integration and interdependence : the domestic chipped-stone economy of the Xunantunich polity / Jon C. VandenBosch, Lisa J. LeCount, and Jason Yaeger; title: A community to be counted : Chaa Creek and the emerging Xunantunich polity / Samuel V. Connell; title: Living in the hinterlands of a provincial polity / Cynthia Robin, Jason Yaeger, and Wendy Ashmore; title: Conclusions : placing Xunantunich and its hinterland settlements in perspective / Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger; title: Provincial politics at Xunantunich : power, differentiation, and identity in a classic-period Maya realm / Edward Schortman.