Don S. 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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Urbanism in the Preindustrial World

Cross-Cultural Approaches

Edited by Glenn R. Storey
University of Alabama Press

A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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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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Urbanism in the Preindustrial World

Cross-Cultural Approaches

Edited by Glenn R. Storey
University of Alabama Press

A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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