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oapen-20.500.12657-316332021-11-04T14:07:49Z Ancient Maya Commerce Hutson, Scott Archaeology Chunchucmil Maya civilization Mesoamerican chronology Obsidian use in Mesoamerica Pottery Soil Yucatán Peninsula bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology Nearly two decades of research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico documented a thriving city of 40,000 people without the powerful kings and massive temples seen at other Maya centers. What brought people to this area, the driest in the Maya world, and how did they survive? Ancient Maya Commerce provides a pioneering study in economic anthropology, making the strongest case yet that ancient Maya economies were quite complex, containing markets in addition to other forms of exchange. Multiple lines of evidence including household archaeology, regional survey, paleo-ecology and soil chemistry show that Chunchucmil was a major center for both short and long distance trade, integrating the Guatemalan highlands, the Gulf of Mexico and the interior of the northern Maya lowlands. By placing Chunchucmil into the broader context of emerging research at other Maya cities, this book helps reorient our understanding of ancient Maya economies, foregrounding the increasingly important role of commerce. 2017-03-30 23:55 2020-03-31 03:00:26 2020-04-01T13:43:12Z 2020-04-01T13:43:12Z 2017-01-02 book 626387 OCN: 973100736 9781607326977;9781607327233 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31633 eng application/pdf n/a 626387.pdf University Press of Colorado 10.26530/oapen_626387 100078 10.26530/oapen_626387 70e7c833-622a-43ce-9f6f-f7afb0c104e9 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781607326977;9781607327233 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) United States 100078 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Nearly two decades of research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico documented a thriving city of 40,000 people without the powerful kings and massive temples seen at other Maya centers. What brought people to this area, the driest in the Maya world, and how did they survive? Ancient Maya Commerce provides a pioneering study in economic anthropology, making the strongest case yet that ancient Maya economies were quite complex, containing markets in addition to other forms of exchange. Multiple lines of evidence including household archaeology, regional survey, paleo-ecology and soil chemistry show that Chunchucmil was a major center for both short and long distance trade, integrating the Guatemalan highlands, the Gulf of Mexico and the interior of the northern Maya lowlands. By placing Chunchucmil into the broader context of emerging research at other Maya cities, this book helps reorient our understanding of ancient Maya economies, foregrounding the increasingly important role of commerce.
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