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Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Ancient Maya Underworld: Exploring the rise and fall of Maya centres in central Belize from the cave context
Shawn Gregory Morton
As integrated and varied ritual contexts, how do changing patterns of pre-Columbian cave use inform the complex of historical, social, political, economic and related ideological processes in action during the inception, florescence, and collapse of Tipan Chen Uitz and other ancient Maya centres in Central Belize? This book aims to highlight and, within a specific regional context, to address, the tendency of the speleoarchaeology of the Maya area to isolate itself from broader topics of discourse. To this end, it explicitly contextualizes primary research in several caves along a chain of related concepts and datasets, extending from the broad body of literature on ritual and religion, through discussion of the conceptual cave context drawn from epigraphic and iconographic sources, and its invocation as recorded in contemporary (or, at least, relatively recent) ethnographic contexts and earlier post-Columbian indigenous historic sources, to the well-travelled paths of the archaeological study of caves.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Series Editors and Editorial Advisory Board
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Archaeology of the Maya: Titles in the Sub-Series
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Dedication
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Acknowledgements
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Table of Contents
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List of Figures
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List of Tables
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Abstract
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Epigraph
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A Note on Orthography
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1. An Introduction to the Archaeology of Central Belize and our Focus of Study
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Section One
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2. The Study of Ritual
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3. The Cave as a Concept: The Epigraphic and Iconographic Corpus
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4. The Cave as a Concept: The Ethnographic and Indigenous Historic Study of Maya Cave Use
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5. The Archaeology of Maya Cave Use
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Section Two
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6. Hinterland Cave Sites, Part I: Caves Branch Rockshelter Cave, AC Cave, Actun Neko
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7. Hinterland Cave Sites, Part II: Actun Lubul Ha
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8. Cave Sites in the Core: Mark’s Cave, Junction Cave, TCU s.21, TCU s.11 (Str. 8), TCU s.05, and TCU s.08
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9. Beyond the Cave Mouth: Polity Growth and Development between the Roaring Creek and Caves Branch River Valleys
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Bibliography
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Appendices Download Link
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Published: 2018
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407316666 (paperback)
- 9781407345499 (ebook)
BAR Number: S2910