Community and Difference: Change in Late Classic Maya Villages of the Petexbatn Region

by Markus Eberl

Through the use of sophisticated ceramic chronology techniques, the author documents how small farming communities like Nacimiento and Dos Ceibas grew from hamlets in the seventh century A.D. into villages with several hundred inhabitants. He traces how local elites emerged during the eighth century A.D. and built outsized residential groups.

Mutual exchanges in these villages leveled material wealth, but also translated into social status...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826519016
• ISBN13: 9780826519016
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 3.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.5" x 10.7"