Zachary X. Hruby - The Technology of Maya Civilization: Political Economy Amd Beyond in Lithic Studies

The Technology of Maya Civilization

Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology
Series Editor: Thomas E. Levy, University of California, San Diego

Editorial Board
Guillermo Algaze, University of California, San Diego
Geoffrey E. Braswell, University of California, San Diego
Paul S. Goldstein, University of California, San Diego
Joyce Marcus, University of Michigan

This series recognizes the fundamental role that anthropology now plays in archaeology and also integrates the strengths of various research paradigms that characterize archaeology on the world scene today. Some of these different approaches include New or Processual archaeology, Post-Processual, evolutionist, cognitive, symbolic, Marxist, and historical archaeologies. Anthropological archaeology accomplishes its goals by taking into account the cultural and, when possible, historical context of the material remains being studied. This involves the development of models concerning the formative role of cognition, symbolism, and ideology in human societies to explain the more material and economic dimensions of human culture that are the natural purview of archaeological data. It also involves an understanding of the cultural ecology of the societies being studied, and of the limitations and opportunities that the environment (both natural and cultural) imposes on the evolution or devolution of human societies. Based on the assumption that cultures never develop in isolation, Anthropological Archaeology takes a regional approach to tackling fundamental issues concerning past cultural evolution anywhere in the world.

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The Technology of Maya Civilization

Political Economy and Beyond in Lithic Studies

Edited by

Zachary X. Hruby,
Geoffrey E. Braswell,
and
Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos

First published 2011 by Equinox, an imprint of Acumen

Published 2014 by Routledge
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ISBN 978-1-84553-508-7 (hardback)

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To Allan J. Hruby III, Emory H. Braswell,

and Oswaldo Chinchilla Aguilar,

for their love and unfailing support

Contents

Geoffrey E. Braswell

Part I
COMPARATIVE STUDIES

Jason W. Barrett, Harry J. Shafer, and Thomas R. Hester

Hattula Moholy-Nagy

Kazuo Aoyama

Part II
CHERT STUDIES

Jason W. Barrett

Nicholas F. Hearth and Scott L. Fedick

Bruce H. Dahlin, Marjukka Bastamow, Timothy Beach, Zachary X. Hruby, Scott R. Hutson, and Daniel Mazeau

Part III
OBSIDIAN STUDIES

Jos Crasborn Chavarra

Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos

Geoffrey E. Braswell and Michael D. Glascock

Edgar Suyuc Ley

Part IV
JADE STUDIES

Karl A. Taube, Zachary X. Hruby, and Luis A. Romero

Brigitte Kovacevich

Part V
CONCLUSION

Zachary X. Hruby

Kazuo Aoyama is a professor of Anthropology at Ibaraki University, Japan. He has worked extensively in western Honduras and the southwestern Petn, Guatemala.
Email: aoyama@mx.ibaraki.ac.jp

Jason W. Barrett is an adjunct professor of Anthropology at Texas A&M and an archaeologist for the Environmental Affairs Division of the Texas Department of Transportation.
Email: jwbarrett@gmail.com

Marjukka Bastamow is an M.A. student in the Department of Archaeology, Institute for Cultural Research, University of Helsinki.
Email: marjukka.bastamow@helsinki.fi

Timothy Beach is an associate professor of Geography and Geoscience at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, and is known for his work on the environmental history of the Maya.
Email: beacht@georgetown.edu

Geoffrey E. Braswell is an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the Toledo Regional Interaction Project, Belize.
Email: gbraswell@ucsd.edu

Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos is the curator of the Museo Popol Vuh, Universidad Francisco Marroqun, Guatemala.
Email: ofchinch@ufm.edu.gt

Jos Crasborn Chavarra is the director of the Parque Arqueolgico Quirigu, Guatemala.
Email: josecrasborn@yahoo.com