The Nature of an Ancient Maya City : Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize Hardback
by Thomas H. Guderjan
Part of the Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series series
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This work is a comprehensive study of a unique Maya site offering the full range of undisturbed architectural features.
For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height.
Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including monumental ceremonial structures, elite and non-elite residences, ditched agricultural fields, and residential clusters just outside the core.
Since 1992, a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research team has intensively investigated Blue Creek in an integrated study of the dynamic structure and functional inter-relationships among the parts of a single Maya city.
Documented in coverage by National Geographic, ""Archaeology"" magazine, and a documentary film aired on the Discovery Channel, Blue Creek is recognized as a unique site offering the full range of undisturbed architectural construction to reveal the mosaic that was the ancient city.
Moving beyond the debate of what constitutes a city, Guderjan's long-term research reveals what daily Maya life was like.
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- Pages:244 pages, 40 illustrations
- Publisher:The University of Alabama Press
- Publication Date:09/12/2007
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- ISBN:9780817315658
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:244 pages, 40 illustrations
- Publisher:The University of Alabama Press
- Publication Date:09/12/2007
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- ISBN:9780817315658
