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ancient economies
Ancient Urban Maya
antiquities
Author_Scott R. Hutson
capital
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Category=NHKA
Category=NKD
center
Chunchucmil
city planning
Classic period
cosmology
demography
disease
district
dress
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eq_history
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eq_isMigrated=2
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exchange
Gini coefficient
Gordon Childe
household
inequality
Karl Polanyi
landscape
marketplace
Mesoamerica
Mexico
migration
monumental architecture
neighborhood
pedestrian
plaza
politics
population density
prehistoric
quarries
regal
ritual
Scott Hutson
settlement patterns
social archaeology
social networks
spatial clustering
structuration
temples
Teotihuacan
traffic
Urbanism
wards
wealth
Yucatan
Product details
- ISBN 9780813062761
- Weight: 512g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Apr 2016
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Ancient cities were complex social, political, and economic entities, but they also suffered from inequality, poor sanitation, and disease—often more than rural areas. In The Ancient Urban Maya, Scott Hutson examines ancient Maya cities and argues that, despite the hazards of urban life, these places continued to lure people for many centuries.
With built forms that welcomed crowds, neighborhoods that offered domestic comforts, marketplaces that facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas, and the opportunities to expand social networks and capital, the Maya used their cities in familiar ways.
With built forms that welcomed crowds, neighborhoods that offered domestic comforts, marketplaces that facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas, and the opportunities to expand social networks and capital, the Maya used their cities in familiar ways.
Scott R. Hutson, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kentucky, USA, is author of Dwelling, Identity, and the Maya: Relational Archaeology at Chunchucmil.
