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7: The Origins of Maya States (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology a)

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The Pre-Columbian Maya were organized into a series of independent kingdoms or polities moderately than unified into a single state. The vast majority of studies of Maya states focal point at the apogee of their development in the classic period, ca. 250-850 C.E. Because of this, Maya states are defined in line with the specific political structures that characterized classic period lowland Maya society. The Origins of Maya States is the first study in over 30 years to examine the origins and development of these states specifically all through the preceding preclassic period, ca. 1000 B.C.E. to 250 C.E.

Attempts to bear in mind the origins of Maya states cannot escape the limitations of archaeological data, and this is complicated by both the variability of Maya states in time and space and the interplay between internal development and external impacts. To mitigate these factors, editors Loa P. Traxler and Robert J. Sharer assemble a number of essays that combines an examination of topical issues with regional perspectives from both the Maya area and neighboring Mesoamerican regions to highlight the role of interregional interaction in the evolution of Maya states. Topics covered include material signatures for the development of Maya states, evaluations of extant models for the emergence of Maya states, and advancement of new models in accordance with up to date archaeological data. Contributors address the development of complexity all through the preclassic era within the Maya regions of the Pacific coast, highlands, and lowlands and explore preclassic economic, social, political, and ideological systems that provide a developmental context for the origins of Maya states.

Contributors: Marcello A. Canuto, John E. Clark, Ann Cyphers, Francisco Estrada-Belli, David C. Grove, Norman Hammond, Richard D. Hansen, Eleanor King, Michael Love, Simon Martin, Astrid Runggaldier, Robert Sharer, Loa Traxler.

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