The Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies: From Farmers' Fields to Rulers' Realms

A timely synthesis of the latest research and perspectives on ancient Maya economics, this volume illuminates the sophistication and intricacy of economic systems in the Preclassic, Classic, and Postclassic periods.

Contributors from a wide range of disciplines move beyond paradigms of elite control and centralized exchange to focus on individual agency, highlighting production and exchange that took place at all levels of society. Case studies draw on new archaeological evidence from rural households and urban marketplaces to reconstruct the trade networks for tools, ceramics, obsidian, salt, and agricultural goods throughout the empire. They also describe the ways household production integrated with community, regional, and interregional markets.

Redirecting the field of ancient Maya economic studies away from simplistic characterizations of the past by fully representing the range of current views on the subject, this volume delves deeply into multiple facets of a complex, interdependent material world.

Contributors: Anthony P. Andrews Chlo Andrieu Beatriz Balc rcel Adolfo Iv n Bat n George Bey Ronald L. Bishop Geoffrey E. Braswell Marcello Canuto Bernadette Cap Arlen F. Chase Diane Z. Chase Rub n Chuc Aguilar Maia Dedrick Pedro Delgado K , Arthur A. Demarest Keith Eppich B rbara Escamilla Ojeda Scott L. Fedick Luis Flores Cob Lynda Florey Folan William J. Folan David A. Freidel Tom s Gallareta Negr n Charles Golden Stanley P. Guenter Joel D. Gunn Richard D. Hansen Timothy S. Hare Enrique Hern ndez Rachel A. Horowitz Scott R. Hutson Takeshi Inomata Eleanor M. King Marilyn A. Masson Patricia A. McAnany Carlos Morales-Aguilar Carlos Peraza Lope Dorie Reents-Budet Prudence M. Rice William Ringle Fernando Robles Castellanos Alejandra Roche Recinos Bradley W. Russell Andrew Scherer Whittaker Schroder Payson Sheets Edgar Suyuc Alexandre Tokovinine Paola Torres Daniela Triadan Kenichiro Tsukamoto Clive Vella Bart Victor Beniamino Volta Brent K. S. Woodfill Andrew R. Wyatt Norman Yoffee

A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813066298
• ISBN13: 9780813066295
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 654 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"