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  • Once Beneath The Forest

    Prehistoric Terracing In The Rio Bec Region Of The Maya Lowlands

    de Bl Turner Ii ...
    My interest in ancient Maya agriculture began late in the year of 1971 when William M. Denevan encouraged me to pursue the topic. Our interests had been perked by reports from Joseph W. Ball, JaCk Eaton, and Irwin Rovner of the presence of terrace-like features throughout the Rio Bee region of the soutnern Yucatan Peninsula. Denevan maintained a long-term interest in pre-Hispanic agriculture and ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

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  • Ancient Maya Commerce

    Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

    Edición de Scott R. Hutson ...
    Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico—a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil is a rare example of a Maya city in which economics, not political rituals, served as the engine of ... Leer más

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  • The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere

    de Paulette F. C. Steeves ...
    2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people have been in the Western ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The First Maya Civilization

    Ritual and Power Before the Classic Period

    de Francisco Estrada-Belli ...
    When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise of such famous cities as Palenque, Copan and Yaxchilan, Maya civilization was already nearly a millennium old. Its first cities, such as Nakbe and El Mirador, had some of the largest temples ever raised in ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World

    A Global Ecological History

    de Gregory T. Cushman ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    For centuries, bird guano has played a pivotal role in the agricultural and economic development of Latin America, East Asia and Oceania. As their populations ballooned during the Industrial Revolution, North American and European powers came to depend on this unique resource as well, helping them meet their ever-increasing farming needs. This book explores how the production and commodification ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Ancient Households of the Americas

    Conceptualizing What Households Do

    Edición de John G. Douglass, Nancy Gonlin ...
    In Ancient Households of the Americas archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households.Several different cultures-Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustín, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico, and Formative, Classic, Colonial, and contemporary Maya-are analyzed through the lens of household archaeology in concrete, ... Leer más

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  • Prehistory of South America

    Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent

    de Jerry D. Moore ...
    A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology.For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers ... Leer más

    $25.89 USD

  • Ancient People of the Andes

    de Michael A. Malpass ...
    In Ancient People of the Andes**, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest**. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution. No South American culture that lived prior to the arrival of Europeans developed a writing ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Caribbean before Columbus

    de William F. Keegan, Corinne L. Hofman ...
    The islands of the Caribbean are remarkably diverse, environmentally and culturally. They range from low limestone islands barely above sea level to volcanic islands with mountainous peaks; from large islands to small cays; from islands with tropical rainforests to those with desert habitats. Today's inhabitants have equally diverse culture histories. The islands are home to a mosaic of indigenous ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • Polynesians in America

    Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World

    de Andrew C. Clarke, María-Auxiliadora Cordero, Geoffrey Irwin, Kathryn A. Klar, Daniel Quiróz, Richard Scaglion, Marshall I. Weisler, Roger C. Green ...
    The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made with the aid of new technologies along with re-evaluation of longstanding but often-ignored ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

  • On the Backs of Tortoises

    Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden

    de Elizabeth Hennessy ...
    An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably linked to our own in a rapidly changing world.Finalist for the 2020 E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, sponsored by PEN America Literary AwardsThe Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this ... Leer más

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  • Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America

    An Encyclopedia

    Edición de Susan Toby Evans, David Webster ...
    This is the first comprehensive, one-volume encyclopedia in English devoted to pre-Columbian archaeology of the Mesoamerican culture area. In more than 500 articles by the major experts in the field, this work brings the most recent scholarship to an examination of regional environments and their cultural evolution. Entries range from the familiar ... Leer más

    $94.99 USD