A01=Thomas H. Guderjan
Author_Thomas H. Guderjan
Category=JHM
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Product details
- ISBN 9780817354268
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 157 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 09 Dec 2007
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This work is a comprehensive study of a unique Maya site offering the full range of undisturbed architectural features. For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including monumental ceremonial structures, elite and non-elite residences, ditched agricultural fields, and residential clusters just outside the core. Since 1992, a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research team has intensively investigated Blue Creek in an integrated study of the dynamic structure and functional inter-relationships among the parts of a single Maya city. Documented in coverage by National Geographic, ""Archaeology"" magazine, and a documentary film aired on the Discovery Channel, Blue Creek is recognized as a unique site offering the full range of undisturbed architectural construction to reveal the mosaic that was the ancient city. Moving beyond the debate of what constitutes a city, Guderjan's long-term research reveals what daily Maya life was like.
Thomas H. Guderjan is the president of Maya Research Program, a non-profit research organization. He received his PhD from Southern Methodist University and has been a faculty member at St. Mary's University and Texas Christian University.
