Recent Advances in Maya Archaeology
dc.contributor.author | Marcus, Joyce | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T15:05:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T15:05:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003-06 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Marcus, Joyce; (2003). "Recent Advances in Maya Archaeology." Journal of Archaeological Research 11(2): 71-148. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44641> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1059-0161 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-7756 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44641 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper focuses on the discoveries of the last decade in Maya archaeology, and assesses their impact on previous models and synthetic frameworks. Although the bibliography includes 700 items published during the last 10 years, it is not exhaustive; on the contrary, a frustratingly large number of discoveries had to be omitted. Two areas exploding with new research are (1) the elicitation of a greater variety of data from hieroglyphic texts, and (2) a series of chemical and biological breakthroughs in the analysis of human burials. The former make it easier to assess the role of elite actors or “agents” in processes of sociopolitical change. The latter hold out the hope of documenting warfare (through skeletal trauma), migration (by tracing tooth enamel isotopes to ground water), status or gender differences in diet (through bone chemistry), and biological connections of individuals to each other and to earlier populations (through DNA). By combining these new data, we are on our way to integrating humanism and science, and to treating Maya polities as case studies in primary or secondary state formation. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Trauma | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Sociopolitical Evolution | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Social Sciences, General | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Anthropology/Archaeometry | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Archaeology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Maya | en_US |
dc.subject.other | State Formation and Collapse | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Warfare | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Drought | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Diet | en_US |
dc.title | Recent Advances in Maya Archaeology | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Classical Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Humanities | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Museum of Anthropology, t1109 Geddes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-1079 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44641/1/10814_2004_Article_459122.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1022919613720 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Journal of Archaeological Research | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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