• Ancient Maya pottery : classification, analysis, and interpretation
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Title Information: classification, analysis, and interpretation
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: ChaseArlen F., 1953-
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: ChaseDiane Z,
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: AimersJames J,
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: Gainesville
    Published: University Press of Florida;
    Year of Publication: c2013
    Description: 1 online resource (312 p.).
    Series: Maya studies
    Subject: Mayas - Antiquities -
    Subject: Maya pottery - Classification -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813042572/
    Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Summary: A volume of classification, interpretation, and analysis of Maya pottery using the type: variety-mode approach, exploring how communities in the region interacted through the lens of ceramic exchange
    ISBN: 9780813042572electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9780813042367hbk.
    Content Note: 1. Introduction / James J. Aimers -- 2. Type-variety: what works andwhat doesn't / Prudence M Rice -- 3. Types and traditions, spheres and systems: a consideration of analytic constructs and concepts in the -- Classification and interpretation of Maya ceramics / Cassandra R. Bill -- 4. Interpreting form and context: ceramic subcomplexes at Caracol,Nohmul, and Santa Rita Corozal, Belize / Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase -- 5. Ceramic resemblances, trade, and emulation: changing utilitarian pottery traditions in the Maya Lowlands / Robert E. Fry -- 6. Type-variety on trial: experimentsin classification and meaning using ceramic assemblages from Lamanai, Belize / James J. Aimers and Elizabeth Graham -- 7. Establishing the Cunil Ceramic Complex at Cahal Pech, Belize/ Lauren A. Sullivan and Jaime J. Awe -- 8. Technological style and terminal preclassic orange ceramics in the HolmulRegion, Guatemala / Michael G. Callaghan, Francisco Estrada-Belli, and Nina Neivens de Estrada-- 9Acanmul, Becán, and the Xcocom phenomenon through a type-variety looking glass: resolving historical enigmas through hands-on typological assessments / Joseph Ball and Jennifer Taschek -- 10. Looking for times: how type-variety analysis helps us "see" the Early postclassic in Northwestern Honduras / Patricia A. Urban, Edward M. Schortman, and Marne T. Ausec -- 11. Slips, styles, and trading patterns: a postclassicperspective from Central Peten, Guatemala / Leslie G. Cecil -- 12. Mayapán's Chen Mul modeled effigy censers: iconography and archaeological context / Susan Milbrath and Carlos Peraza Lope -- 13. Problems and prospects in Maya ceramic classification, analysis, and interpretation /James J. Aimers
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