Quiriguá Reports, Volume IV: Settlement Archaeology at Quiriguá, Guatemala (University Museum Monograph, 126) - Hardcover

Ashmore, Wendy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 193170791X ISBN 13: 9781931707916

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2007

Synopsis

This monograph reports the results of the Quiriguá Project Site Periphery Program, five seasons (1975-1979) of archaeological survey and excavation in the 96 km2 immediately adjoining the classic Maya site of Quiriguá. Ashmore identifies and helps us understand where and how the people of Quiriguá lived. She presents detailed material evidence in two data catalogues, for the floodplain settlement adjoining Quiriguá and for sites in the wider periphery.

The work situates Quiriguá settlement firmly in a regional context, benefiting from the extraordinary abundance of information amassed in southeastern Mesoamerica since 1979. It sheds new light on the political, economic, and social dynamics of the region including the sometimes-fractious interactions between Quiriguá, its overlords at Copan, and people elsewhere in the Lower Motagua Valley and beyond.

Content of this book's CD-ROM may be found online at this location: http://core.tdar.org/project/376582.

University Museum Monograph, 126

About this title

About the Author:

Wendy Ashmore is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 193170791X
• ISBN 13: 9781931707916
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376