Full Description
From the Preclassic to the present, Maya peoples have continuously built, altered, abandoned, and re-used structures, imbuing them with new meanings at each transformation. RUINS OF THE PAST is the first volume to focus on how later Maya peoples perceived, used, and sometimes ritually destroyed ruins of structures built by ancestors.
Contents
; Contents List of Figures Foreword'Wendy Ashmore Note on Use of Accents Chapter 1: Places of Remembrance: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands'Travis W. Stanton and Aline Magnoni Chapter 2: Forgotten Structures, Haunted Houses, and Occupied Hearts: Ancient Perspectives and Contemporary Interpretations of Abandoned Sites and Buildings in the Mirador Basin, Guatemala'Richard D. Hansen, Wayne K. Howell, and Stanley P. Guenter Chapter 3: The Transformation of Abandoned Architecture at Piedras Negras'Mark B. Child and Charles W. Golden Chapter 4: Structure Abandonment and Landscape Transformation: Examples from the Three Rivers Region'Lauren A. Sullivan, Jon B. Hageman, Brett A. Houk, Paul Hughbanks, and Fred Valdez Jr. Chapter 5: Manipulating Memory in the Wake of Dynastic Decline at El Peru-Waka': Termination Deposits at Abandoned Structure M13-1'Olivia C. Navarro Farr, David A. Freidel, and Ana Lucia Arroyave Prera Chapter 6: Establishing and Reusing Sacred Place: A Diachronic Perspective from Blackman Eddy, Belize'M. Kathryn Brown and James F. Garber Chapter 7: Anatomy of a Post-Collapse Society: Identity and Interaction in Early Postclassic Cop n'T. Kam Manahan Chapter 8: Landscape Transformations and Changing Perceptions at Chunchucmil, Yucat n'Aline Magnoni, Scott R. Hutson, and Travis W. Stanton Chapter 9: Edzn : A Lived Place through Time'Antonio Benavides C. Chapter 10: Memories, Meanings, and Historical Awareness: Post-Abandonment Behaviors among the Lowland Maya'Marcello A. Canuto and Anthony P. Andrews Afterword'Denise Fay Brown References Cited Author Biographies Index;
