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- ISBN 9780813066691
- Weight: 1035g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 30 Mar 2021
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Leading experts in Maya studies offer insights into the breakdown of kingship regimes, as well as the gradual urban collapse and settlement relocations that followed. The volume illuminates historical factors and actions that led to the end of the institution across kingdoms and the mechanisms that enabled societies to eventually recover with new political structures. Contributors provide archaeological, iconographic, epigraphic, and ethnohistorical perspectives, exploring datasets in the spheres of warfare, social dynamics, economics, and architecture.
Unfolding with precision the chains of processes and events that occurred during the ninth and tenth centuries in the southern lowlands, and slightly later in the north, this volume displays an original and ambitious historical approach central to understanding one of the most radical political shifts to occur in the pre-Columbian Americas.
Arlen F. Chase, visiting professor of anthropology at Pomona College, California, is coeditor of Maya E Groups: Calendars, Astronomy, and Urbanism in the Early Lowlands.
Philippe Nondédéo is researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Laboratoire Archéologie des Amériques, France).
M. Charlotte Arnauld, emeritus research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Laboratoire Archéologie des Amériques, France), is coeditor of The Neighborhood as a Social and Spatial Unit in Mesoamerican Cities.
