Description: Inconstant Landscape : The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala, Paperback by Garrison, Thomas G. (EDT); Houston, Stephen (EDT), ISBN 1646420772, ISBN-13 9781646420773, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Presenting the results of six years of archaeological survey and excavation in and around the Maya kingdom of El Zotz, An Inconstant Landscape paints a complex picture of a dynamic landscape over the course of almost 2,000 years of occupation. El Zotz was a dynastic seat of the Classic period in Guatemala. Located between the renowned sites of Tikal and El Per-Waka', it existed as a small kingdom with powerful neighbors and serves today as a test-case of political debility and strength during the height of dynastic struggles among the Classic Maya. In this volume, contributors address the challenges faced by smaller polities on the peripheries of powerful kingdoms and ask how subordination was experienced and independent policy asserted. Leading experts provide cutting-edge analysis in varied topics and detailed discussion of the development of this major site and the region more broadly. The first half of the volume contains a historical narrative of the cultural sequence of El Zotz, tracing the changes in occupation and landscape use across time; the second half provides deep technical analyses of material evidence, including soils, ceramics, stone tools, and bone. The ever-changing, inconstant landscapes of peripheral kingdoms like El Zotz reveal much about their more dominant'and better known'neighbors. An Inconstant Landscape offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of this important but under-studied site, an essential context for the study of the Classic Maya in Guatemala, and a premier reference on the subject of peripheral kingdoms at the height of Maya civilization. Contributors: Timothy Beach, Nicholas Carter, Ewa Czapiewska-Halliday, Alyce de Carteret, William Delgado, Colin Doyle, James Doyle, Laura Gmez, Jose Luis Garrido Lpez, Yeny Myshell Gutirrez Castillo, Zachary Hruby, Melanie Kingsley, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Cassandra Mesick Braun, Sarah Newman, Rony Piedrasanta, Edwin Romn, and Andrew K. Scherer
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Book Title: Inconstant Landscape : The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala
Number of Pages: 492 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Inconstant Landscape : the Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Subject: Archaeology, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.1 Oz
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Author: Stephen Houston
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
