Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica: Empirical Approaches to Mesoamerican Archaeology by Gonlin, Nancy

Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica: Empirical Approaches to Mesoamerican Archaeology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781607323914)

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Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica: Empirical Approaches to Mesoamerican Archaeology by Gonlin, Nancy

Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica: Empirical Approaches to Mesoamerican Archaeology

$63.00
Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica: Empirical Approaches to Mesoamerican Archaeology by Gonlin, Nancy

Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica: Empirical Approaches to Mesoamerican Archaeology

$63.00
Format: Hardcover
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This volume explores the dynamics of human adaptation to social, political, ideological, economic, and environmental factors in Mesoamerica and includes a wide array of topics, such as the hydrological engineering behind Teotihuacan's layout, the complexities of agriculture and sustainability in the Maya lowlands, and the nuanced history of abandonment among different lineages and households in Maya centers.

The authors aptly demonstrate how culture is the mechanism that allows people to adapt to a changing world, and they address how ecological factors, particularly land and water, intersect with nonmaterial and material manifestations of cultural complexity. Contributors further illustrate the continuing utility of the cultural ecological perspective in framing research on adaptations of ancient civilizations.

This book celebrates the work of Dr. David Webster, an influential Penn State archaeologist and anthropologist of the Maya region, and highlights human adaptation in Mesoamerica through the scientific lenses of anthropological archaeology and cultural ecology.

Contributors include Elliot M. Abrams, Christopher J. Duffy, Susan Toby Evans, Kirk D. French, AnnCorinne Freter, Nancy Gonlin, George R. Milner, Zachary Nelson, Deborah L. Nichols, David M. Reed, Don S. Rice, Prudence M. Rice, Rebecca Storey, Kirk Damon Straight, David Webster, Stephen L. Whittington, Randolph J. Widmer, John D. Wingard, and W. Scott Zeleznik.

Author: Nancy Gonlin
ISBN-10: 1607323915
ISBN-13: 9781607323914
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2015
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.20d
By Nancy Gonlin
By Nancy Gonlin
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Nancy Gonlin is a Mesoamerican archaeologist who specializes in daily and nightly practices, household studies, and inequality. She serves as co-editor of the Cambridge journal Ancient Mesoamerica. Her publications include the co-edited volumes Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica, Ancient Households of the Americas, and Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica. She is co-author of Copán: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Maya Kingdom. Watch her TEDx talk "Life After Dark in the Ancient World" here.

Kirk D. French is lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on complex societies in Mesoamerica and relies on an analytical approach to better understand human adaptations to environmental change through a combination of field-based archaeology, watershed modeling, and documentary film.

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