Lowland Maya Civilization in the Eighth Century A.D.: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks 7th and 8th October, 1989

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1993 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, 482 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 7-8, 1989 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Eighth-century physical geography, environment, and natural resources in the Maya lowlands" by Don S. Rice; "The economics of social power and wealth among eighth-century Maya households" by Patricia A. McAnany; "The social organization of the late classic Maya: problems of definition and approaches" by Robert J. Sharer; "Ancient Maya political organization" by Joyce Marcus; "The topography of ancient Maya religious pluralism: a dialogue with the present" by Gary H. Gossen and Richard M. Leventhal; "A view of ancient Maya settlements in the eighth century" by Gair Tourtellot; "Pottery, potters, palaces, and polities: some socioeconomic and political implications of late classic Maya ceramic industries" by Joseph W. Ball; "Analytical approaches to late classic Maya lithic industries" by Daniel R. Potter; "Architecture and social change in late classic Maya society: the evidence from Mundo Perdido, Tikal" by Juan Pedro Laporte; "Historical inscriptions and the Maya collapse" by David Stuart; "On the eve of the collapse: Maya art of the eighth century" by Mary Ellen Miller; "The study of Maya warfare: what it tells us about the Maya and what it tells us about Maya archaeology" by David Webster "Reconceptualizing the Maya cultural tradition: programmatic comments" by John S. Henderson and Jeremy A. Sabloff.