Cerro Palenque: Power and Identity on the Maya Periphery Tapa dura - 1992

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University of Texas Press, 1991. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Austin TX: University of Texas Press, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 6 x 9. VERY GOOD/ DUST JACKET FAIR. 188 pages. Text is clean and unlined. Former owner's name written on the front cover page. Orange cloth board with gold lettering on the spine. Cover is very gently worn. Dust jacket has a tear in the front upper corner, otherwise in good condition. Binding and hinges are firm.

x+188 pages with 6 tables, 26 figures and indexes. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's reddish brown cloth with gilt lettering in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Excavations at Cerro Palenque, a hilltop site in the Ulua Valley of northwest Honduras, have revolutionized scholars' ideas about the Terminal Classic period (roughly AD 850-1050) of Maya history and about the way in which cultures of the southeast Maya periphery related to the Lowland Maya. In this path-finding study, Rosemary Joyce combines archaeological data gleaned from the site research in 1980-1983 with anthropological theory about the evolution of social power to reconstruct something of the culture and life-ways of the prehispanic inhabitants of Cerro Palenque. Joyce organizes her study in a novel way. Rather than presenting each category of excavated material (ceramics, lithics, etc) in a separate chapter, she integrates this data in discussions of what people did and where they did it, resulting… Leer más

University of Texas Press, Austin TX, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 188 pages. Hardcover. Text in English. There is a small tear to the foot of the spine of the jacket with some associated crimping. Faint and minimal shelfwear to the edges. Else, the binding is tight, the corners of the boards sharp, and interior clean and free of markings. Bound in orange cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Extensive bibliography and index..

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Several Illus. 8vo, red cloth, d.w. Austin: University of Texas Press, (1991). Very good<br/><br/>