Prudence M. Rice

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The Kowoj

Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala

University Press of Colorado

Neighbors of the better-known Itza in the central Petén lakes region of Guatemala, the Kowoj Maya have been studied for little more than a decade. The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala summarizes the results of recent research into this ethno-political group conducted by Prudence Rice, Don Rice, and their colleagues.

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The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands

Collapse, Transition, and Transformation

University Press of Colorado

The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands revisits one of the great problems in Mayan archaeology - the apparent collapse of Classic Maya civilization from roughly A.D. 830 to 950. During this period the Maya abandoned their power centers in the southern lowlands and rather abruptly ceased the distinctive cultural practices that marked their apogee in the Classic period. Archaeological fieldwork during the past three decades, however, has uncovered enormous regional variability in the ways the Maya experienced the shift from Classic to Postclassic society, revealing a period of cultural change more complex than acknowledged by traditional models.

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Maya Calendar Origins

Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time

University of Texas Press

A major rethinking of the origins of the two primary calendars used by the ancient lowland Maya, proposing that the calendars developed about a millennium earlier than commonly thought.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Vintage Moquegua

History, Wine, and Archaeology on a Colonial Peruvian Periphery

University of Texas Press

This fascinating, deeply human narrative of colonialism and capitalism captures the history of a New World winery in the desert mountains of southern Peru.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Maya Political Science

Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos

University of Texas Press

Rice builds a new model of Classic lowland Maya (AD 179–948) political organization and political geography.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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The Lowland Maya Postclassic

University of Texas Press

This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.

  • Copyright year: 1985
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Space-Time Perspectives on Early Colonial Moquegua

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2014
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Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos

Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya Figurines, Ritual, and Time

University Press of Colorado

Explores the sociocultural significance of more than three hundred Middle Preclassic Maya figurines uncovered at the site of Nixtun-Ch'ich' on Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Itzas of Petén, Guatemala

University Press of Colorado

Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Itzas of Petén, Guatemala is the first exhaustively detailed and thorough account of the Itzas—a Maya group that dominated much of the western lowland area of tropical forest, swamps, and grasslands in Petén, Guatemala.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Macanché Island, El Petén, Guatemala

Excavations, Pottery, and Artifacts

University Press of Florida
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Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island

Complexity, Ritual, and Pottery

University of Alabama Press

Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theories
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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