The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780817354268)

Reveals what daily Maya life was like

For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including monumental ceremonial structures, elite and non-elite residences, ditched agricultural fields, and residential clusters just outside the core. Since 1992, a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research team has intensively investigated Blue Creek in an integrated study of the dynamic structure and functional inter-relationships among the parts of a single Maya city. Documented in coverage by National Geographic, Archaeology magazine, and a documentary film aired on the Discovery Channel, Blue Creek is recognized as a unique site offering the full range of undisturbed architectural construction to reveal the mosaic that was the ancient city. Moving beyond the debate of what constitutes a city, Guderjan's long-term research reveals what daily Maya life was like.


Author: Thomas H. Guderjan
ISBN-10: 0817354263
ISBN-13: 9780817354268
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2007
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.21w x 0.46d