Description
In this volume, contributors address the challenges faced by smaller polities on the peripheries of powerful kingdoms and ask how subordination used to be experienced and independent policy asserted. Leading experts provide state-of-the-art analysis in varied topics and detailed discussion of the development of this major website online and the region more broadly. The first half of the volume comprises a historical narrative of the cultural sequence of El Zotz, tracing the changes in occupation and landscape use across time; the second one half provides deep technical analyses of material evidence, including soils, ceramics, stone tools, and bone.
The ever-changing, inconstant landscapes of peripheral kingdoms like El Zotz reveal much about their more dominant—and better known—neighbors. An Inconstant Landscape offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of this important but under-studied website online, an essential context for the study of the Classic Maya in Guatemala, and a premier reference in terms of peripheral kingdoms at the height of Maya civilization.
Contributors: Timothy Beach, Nicholas Carter, Ewa Czapiewska-Halliday, Alyce de Carteret, William Delgado, Colin Doyle, James Doyle, Laura Gámez, Jose Luis Garrido López, Yeny Myshell Gutiérrez Castillo, Zachary Hruby, Melanie Kingsley, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Cassandra Mesick Braun, Sarah Newman, Rony Piedrasanta, Edwin Román, and Andrew K. Scherer