{"product_id":"before-the-volcano-erupted-payson-d-sheets-9780292726215","title":"Before the Volcano Erupted: The Ancient Cerén Village in Central America","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn an August evening around AD 600, residents of the Cerén village in the Zapotitán Valley of what is now El Salvador were sitting down to their nightly meal when ground tremors and loud steam emissions warned of an impending volcanic eruption. The villagers fled, leaving their town to be buried under five meters of volcanic ash and forgotten until a bulldozer uncovered evidence of the extraordinarily preserved town in 1976. The most intact Precolumbian village in Latin America, Cerén has been called the \"Pompeii of the New World.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book presents complete and detailed reports of the excavations carried out at Cerén since 1978 by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, ethnographers, volcanologists, geophysicists, botanists, conservators, and others. The book is divided into sections that discuss the physical environment and resources, household structures and economy, special buildings and their uses, artifact analysis, and topical and theoretical issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the authors present and analyze Cerén's houses and their goods, workshops, civic and religious buildings, kitchen gardens, planted fields, and garbage dumps, a new and much clearer picture of how commoners lived during the Maya Classic Period emerges. These findings constitute landmark contributions to the anthropology and archaeology of Central America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Payson D. Sheets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 029272621X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292726215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Payson D. Sheets","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46738974081279,"sku":"9780292726215","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a64a17ef-5b2c-42ca-ad3d-7548805ce1b5.jpg?v=1743276829","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/before-the-volcano-erupted-payson-d-sheets-9780292726215","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}