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Kukulcan's realm: urban life at ancient Mayapán

Date

2014

Authors

Peraza Lope, Carlos, author
Masson, Marilyn A., author
Hare, Timothy S., author
University Press of Colorado, publisher

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Abstract

With contributions by Timothy S. Hare, Kukulcan's Realm chronicles the fabric of socioeconomic relationships and religious practice that bound the Postclassic Maya city of Mayapán's urban residents together for nearly three centuries. Presenting results of ten years of household archaeology at the city, including field research and laboratory analysis, the book discusses the social, political, economic, and ideological makeup of this complex urban center. Masson and Peraza Lope's detailed overview provides evidence of a vibrant market economy that played a critical role in the city's political and economic success. They offer new perspectives from the homes of governing elites, secondary administrators, affluent artisans, and poorer members of the service industries. Household occupational specialists depended on regional trade for basic provisions that were essential to crafting industries, sustenance, and quality of life. Settlement patterns reveal intricate relationships of households with neighbors, garden plots, cultivable fields, thoroughfares, and resources. Urban planning endeavored to unite the cityscape and to integrate a pluralistic populace that derived from hometowns across the Yucatan peninsula.--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Access is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.

Subject

Mayas -- Urban residence -- Mexico -- Mayapan
Maya architecture -- Mexico -- Mayapan
Mayas -- Mexico -- Mayapan -- Antiquties
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Mayapan
Mayapan Site (Mexico)
Mayapan (Mexico) -- Antiquities

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