Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) Tapa dura - 1981

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1981 University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM. 1981. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. A School of American Research Book. Advanced Seminar Series. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for former owner name on front pastedown. Book Condition: Near Fine; light shelfwear. DJ: Good; chipping and small missing pieces on top edge; chipping at spine tail; wear at tip covers; moisture stain on rear panel at bottom; light sunfading of front panel. 465 pp 8vo. This book investigates the settlement patterns of the pre-Hispanic lowland Maya remains over the landscape based on history, ethnographic analogy and trade. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Albuquerque, NM: University of Mexico Press for The School of American Research, 1981. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. American First. Some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; illustrated with black and white maps, drawings, charts and settlement plans; 465 pages; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

xviii+465 pages with diagrams, maps, charts, tables and index. Royal Octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with silver lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition.Professor Ashmore's interests center on the social use and understanding of space. Since the mid-1970s, she has studied the architecture and settlement patterns of the ancient Maya and neighboring peoples, through archaeological field research in Guatemala, Honduras and Belize. Her consideration of the social and symbolic aspects of spatial organization has been expressed in the archaeology of households, the analysis of civic planning in cities and towns, and the study of ancient landscapes. Most recently, she has turned attention to how gender affects and is affected by architecture and other kinds of spatial order. She is completing a monograph on settlement and landscape at the Maya center of Quirigua, Guatemala, and articles on ancient civic planning, on household abandonment in archaeology, and on… Leer más