An Inconstant Landscape : The Maya Kingdom of el Zotz, Guatemala.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (493 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface: Stephen Houston and Thomas G. Garrison -- Part I: The Culture History of the Pa'ka'n Dynasty -- Chapter 1: A Fortress in Heaven: Researching the Long Term at El Zotz, Guatemala (Stephen Houston, Thomas G. Garrison, and Edwin Román) -- Chapter 2: Monumental Beginnings: The Preclassic Maya of El Palmar and the Buenavista Valley, Peten, Guatemala (James A. Doyle and Rony E. Piedrasanta) -- Chapter 3: Ruling through Defense: The Rise of an Early Classic Dynasty at El Zotz (Edwin Román, Thomas G. Garrison, and Stephen Houston) -- Chapter 4: Border Lords and Client Kings: El Zotz and Bejucal in the Late Classic Period (Nicholas P. Carter, Yeny M. Gutiérrez Castillo, and Sarah Newman) -- Chapter 5: Collapse, Continuity, Change: El Zotz in the Terminal Classic Period (Sarah Newman, Jose Luis Garrido, and Nicholas P. Carter) -- Chapter 6: In the Wake of "Collapse": The Post-Dynastic or Early Postclassic Period at El Zotz (Melanie J. Kingsley and Laura Gámez) -- Part II: Technical Analysis at El Zotz -- Chapter 7: Environments of El Zotz: Water and Soil Chemistry, the El Zotz Dam, and Long-Term Environmental Change (Timothy Beach, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Colin Doyle, and William Delgado) -- Chapter 8: Understanding Social, Economic, and Political Change: The Ceramics of El Zotz (Ewa Czapiewska-Halliday, Nicholas P. Carter, Melanie J. Kingsley, Sarah Newman, and Alyce de Carteret) -- Chapter 9: Lithic Technologies and Economies at El Zotz (Zachary Hruby) -- Chapter 10: A Tableau in Clay: Figurines and Figurine-Whistles of El Zotz (Alyce de Carteret and Jose Luis Garrido) -- Chapter 11: Constructed Landscapes: Architectural Stratigraphy, Behavioral Practices, and Building Technologies at El Zotz (Cassandra Mesick Braun). Chapter 12: Grave Matters: Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology at El Zotz, Bejucal, and El Palmar (Andrew K. Scherer) -- Chapter 13: An Inconstant Landscape: Pa'ka'n in Regional View (Thomas G. Garrison and Stephen Houston) -- References Cited -- Contributor Biographies -- Index.