TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aimers,James J.
AU  - Chase,Diane Z.
AU  - Chase,Arlen F.
AU  - 
TI  - Ancient Maya pottery: classification, analysis, and interpretation 
T2  - Maya studies
SN  - 9780813042572
AV  - F1435 .A535 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Florida
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Maya pottery
KW  - Classification
KW  - Mayas
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Type-Variety: What Works and What Doesn't; 3. Types and Traditions, Spheres and Systems: A Consideration of Analytic Constructs and Concepts in the Classification and Interpretation of Maya Ceramics; 4. Interpreting Form and Context: Ceramic Subcomplexes at Caracol, Nohmul, and Santa Rita Corozal, Belize; 5. Ceramic Resemblances, Trade, and Emulation: Changing Utilitarian Pottery Traditions in the Maya Lowlands; 6. Type-Variety on Trial: Experiments in Classification and Meaning Using Ceramic Assemblages from Lamanai, Belize7. Establishing the Cunil Ceramic Complex at Cahal Pech, Belize; 8. Technological Style and Terminal Preclassic Orange Ceramics in the Holmul Region, Guatemala; 9. Acanmul, Becán, and the Xcocom Phenomenon through a Type-Variety Looking Glass: Resolving Historical Enigmas through Hands-On Typological Assessments; 10. Looking for Times: How Type-Variety Analysis Helps Us "See" the Early Postclassic in Northwestern Honduras; 11. Slips, Styles, and Trading Patterns: A Postclassic Perspective from Central Petén, Guatemala12. Mayapán's Chen Mul Modeled Effigy Censers: Iconography and Archaeological Context; 13. Problems and Prospects in Maya Ceramic Classification, Analysis, and Interpretation; References; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; 2; b
N2  - The ancient Maya produced a broad range of ceramics that has attracted concerted scholarly attention for over a century. Pottery sherds--the most abundant artifacts recovered from sites--reveal much about artistic expression, religious ritual, economic systems, cooking traditions, and cultural exchange in Maya society. Today, nearly every Maya archaeologist uses the type-variety classificatory framework for studying sherd collections. This impressive volume brings together many of the archaeologists signally involved in the analysis and interpretation of ancient Maya ceramics and rep
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