Ancient Maya Commerce : Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil
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Ancient Maya Commerce : Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

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Ancient Maya Commerce : Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

About this book

Nearly two decades of research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico documented a thriving city of 40, 000 people without the powerful kings and massive temples seen at other Maya centers. What brought people to this area, the driest in the Maya world, and how did they survive? Ancient Maya Commerce provides a pioneering study in economic anthropology, making the strongest case yet that ancient Maya economies were quite complex, containing markets in addition to other forms of exchange. Multiple lines of evidence including household archaeology, regional survey, paleo-ecology and soil chemistry show that Chunchucmil was a major center for both short and long distance trade, integrating the Guatemalan highlands, the Gulf of Mexico and the interior of the northern Maya lowlands. By placing Chunchucmil into the broader context of emerging research at other Maya cities, this book helps reorient our understanding of ancient Maya economies, foregrounding the increasingly important role of commerce.

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Information

Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Year
2017
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781607326977
Subtopic
Customs & Traditions
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. Foreword
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Chapter 1. Introduction: The Long Road to Maya Markets
  10. Chapter 2. The Map of Chunchucmil
  11. Chapter 3. Architectural Group Typology and Excavation Sampling within Chunchucmil
  12. Chapter 4. Chunchucmil Chronology and Site Dynamics
  13. Chapter 5. Chunchucmil’s Urban Population
  14. Chapter 6. Environmental Heterogeneity in the Chunchucmil Economic Region
  15. Chapter 7. Hydrology on the Edge of the Chicxulub Crater: Chunchucmil and Ucí-Cansahcab Groundwater Resources
  16. Chapter 8. Hinterland Settlement Patterns within the Chunchucmil Economic Region
  17. Chapter 9. Soils and Agricultural Carrying Capacity
  18. Chapter 10. Perishable Resources Produced for Exchange in the Chunchucmil Economic Region
  19. Chapter 11. Marketing within Chunchucmil
  20. Chapter 12. Connections beyond Chunchucmil
  21. Chapter 13. Conclusions
  22. References
  23. List of Contributors
  24. Index

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