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The Ancient Maya City of Blue Creek, Belize: Wealth, Social Organization and Ritual
Thomas Guderjan
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This volume summarizes many aspects of more than twenty years of field research at the ancient Maya city of Blue Creek in northwestern Belize. Blue Creek was a medium-sized Maya kingdom whose wealth was built upon access to large-scale and high-quality agricultural lands and its location at the headwaters of the Rio Hondo. The Rio Hondo is the northern-most river draining the Maya lowlands into the Caribbean Sea and provided access to markets and polities of northern Yucatan. The studies in the volume provide an overview of Blue Creek combined with detailed studies of aspects of production, trade, distribution, and the organization and functional interactions within the community.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Contents
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Chapter 1: The Blue Creek Archaeological Project 1992-2014
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Chapter 2: Implementing Multiple Research Strategies: A Case Study from Blue Creek, Belize
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Chapter 3: Water, Stone and Soil: A Preliminary Investigation into the Location of Selected Sites in Far North-west Belize in Relation to Critical Natural Resources
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Chapter 4: Late and Terminal Classic Social Stratification Dynamics at Blue Creek
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Chapter 5: Chan Cahal: Socio-economic Dynamics in an Agrarian Maya Community
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Chapter 6: Environmental Assessment of Blue Creek: Preliminary List of Woody Tree Species Encountered in the Region
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Chapter 7: Wetland Investigations at Blue Creek: The Early Years (1996-2000)
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Chapter 8: The Other Side of the Looking Glass? Obsidian from Blue Creek, Belize
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Chapter 9: Maya Political Economy: A Spatial, Temporal, and Contextual Analysis of Jade Deposits throughout the Southern Lowlands
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Chapter 10: The Blue Creek Faunal Assemblage
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Chapter 11: The Shaft Caches of Structure 4: An Analysis of the Archaeological Evidence and Symbolism
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Chapter 12: An Evaluation of Evidence for Formative Economic Behavior: Artifact Assemblage Diversity at Chan Cahal
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Published: 2016
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407344195 (ebook)
- 9781407320694 (paperback)
BAR Number: S2796