The Ancient Maya City of Blue Creek, Belize

Wealth, Social Organization and Ritual

250 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: BAR International Series
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Amerikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781407320694
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.04.2016
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• Herausgegeben von: Thomas Guderjan