Analysis
Ancient Maya Pottery
Ancient Maya Pottery: Classification
and Interpretation
anthropology
archaeology
Arlen Chase
artistic expression
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ceramic decoration
ceramic production
ceramic usage
ceramics
ceramics culture
context analysis
cooking traditions
cultural exchange
Diane Chase
domestic culture
economic systems
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identity
James John Aimers
Maya history
Maya studies
Mayan artifacts
Mayan culture
physical science
pottery analysis
pottery classification
pottery sherd
practice theory
prehistoric Maya
religion
ruins
technology
type-variety classification
xcocom
Product details
- ISBN 9780813060927
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2015
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The ancient Maya produced a broad range of ceramics that has attracted concerted scholarly attention for over a century. Pottery shards--the most abundant artifacts recovered from sites--reveal much about artistic expression, religious ritual, economic systems, cooking traditions, and cultural exchange in Maya society.
Today, nearly every Maya archaeologist uses the type-variety classificatory framework for studying sherd collections. This impressive volume brings together many of the archaeologists signally involved in the analysis and interpretation of ancient Maya ceramics and represents new findings and state-of-the-art thinking. The result is a book that serves both as a valuable resource for archaeologists involved in pottery classification, analysis, and interpretation and as an illuminating exploration of ancient Mayan culture.
Today, nearly every Maya archaeologist uses the type-variety classificatory framework for studying sherd collections. This impressive volume brings together many of the archaeologists signally involved in the analysis and interpretation of ancient Maya ceramics and represents new findings and state-of-the-art thinking. The result is a book that serves both as a valuable resource for archaeologists involved in pottery classification, analysis, and interpretation and as an illuminating exploration of ancient Mayan culture.
James Aimers, associate professor of anthropology at the State University of New York, Geneseo, USA, is author of Cultural Change on a Temporal and Spatial Frontier.
