TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ambrosino,James N.
AU  - Andrews V,E.Wyllys
AU  - Christie,Jessica Joyce
AU  - Demarest,Arthur
AU  - Doonan,William F.
AU  - Escobedo,Héctor
AU  - Everson,Gloria E.
AU  - Guderjan,Thomas H.
AU  - Hanratty,C.Colleen
AU  - Harrison,Peter D’Arcy
AU  - Inomata,Takeshi
AU  - Johnson,Jodi L.
AU  - Kowalski,Jeff Karl
AU  - Kurjack,Edward B.
AU  - Lichtenstein,Robert J.
AU  - Morgan,Kim
AU  - Sampeck,Kathryn E.
AU  - Starratt,Harold E.
AU  - Stuardo,Rodrigo Liendo
AU  - Traxler,Loa P.
AU  - Triadan,Daniela
AU  - Wolley,Claudia
TI  - Maya Palaces and Elite Residences: An Interdisciplinary Approach 
T2  - The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
SN  - 9780292798601
AV  - F1435.3.A6 M37 2003
U1  - 972.81/016 21
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Maya architecture
KW  - Mayas
KW  - Dwellings
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Palaces
KW  - Latin America
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter One. Elite Residences at Blue Creek, Belize --; Chapter Two. At Court in Copan --; Chapter Three. A Multipurpose Structure in the Late Classic Palace at Copan --; Chapter Four. Palaces of the Royal Court at Tikal --; Chapter Five. The Political Acquisition of Sacred Geography --; Chapter Six. Where Did Elites Live? --; Chapter Seven. Access Patterns in Maya Royal Precincts --; Chapter Eight. Evidence for the Functions and Meanings of Some Northern Maya Palaces --; Chapter Nine. The Function of a Maya Palace at Yaxuna --; Chapter Ten. Palace and Society in the Northern Maya Lowlands --; Chapter Eleven. The Tripartite Layout of Rooms in Maya Elite Residences --; Chapter Twelve. Conclusions --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Maya "palaces" have intrigued students of this ancient Mesoamerican culture since the early twentieth century, when scholars first applied the term "palace" to multi-room, gallery-like buildings set on low platforms in the centers of Maya cities. Who lived in these palaces? What types of ceremonial and residential activities took place there? How do the physical forms and spatial arrangement of the buildings embody Maya concepts of social organization and cosmology? This book brings together state-of-the-art data and analysis regarding the occupants, ritual and residential uses, and social and cosmological meanings of Maya palaces and elite residences. A multidisciplinary team of senior researchers reports on sites in Belize (Blue Creek), Western Honduras (Copan), the Peten (Tikal, Dos Pilas, Aguateca), and the Yucatan (Uxmal, Chichen-Itza, Dzibilchaltun, Yaxuna). Archaeologist contributors discuss the form of palace buildings and associated artifacts, their location within the city, and how some palaces related to landscape features. Their approach is complemented by art historical analyses of architectural sculpture, epigraphy, and ethnography. Jessica Joyce Christie concludes the volume by identifying patterns and commonalties that apply not only to the cited examples, but also to Maya architecture in general
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/712447
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292798601
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292798601/original
ER  -