Ancient Maya Commoners

Commendation Quotes: This is a landmark volume that begins to fill a longstanding and critical gap in our understanding of the ancient Maya. . . . [It] will serve as an essential work for students and professional scholars alike to begin to correct the prevalent emphasis on the elite Maya. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments 1. Examining Ancient Maya Commoners Anew Jon C. Lohse and Fred Valdez, Jr. 2. Daily Life in a Highland Maya Community: Zinacantan in Mid-Twentieth Century Evon Z. Vogt 3. The Role of Pottery and Food Consumption among Late Preclassic Maya Commoners at Lamanai, Belize Terry G. Powis 4. Of Salt and Water: Ancient Commoners on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala Barbara Arroyo 5. Down on the Farm: Classic Maya "Homesteads" as "Farmsteads" Nicholas Dunning 6. Intra-Site Settlement Signatures and Implications for Late Classic Maya Commoner Organization at Dos Hombres, Belize Jon C. Lohse 7. Heterogeneous Hinterlands: The Social and Political Organization of Commoner Settlements near Xunantunich, Belize Jason Yaeger and Cynthia Robin 8. The Spatial Mobility of Non-Elite Populations in Classic Maya Society and Its Political Implications Takeshi Inomata 9. Commoners in Postclassic Maya Society: Social versus Economic Class Constructs Marilyn A. Masson and Carlos Peraza Lope 10. Methods for Understanding Classic Maya Commoners: Structure Function, Energetics, and More Nancy Gonlin 11. Maya Commoners: The Stereotype and the Reality Joyce Marcus Contributors IndexPublisher Marketing: Offers the fullest understanding to date of the lifeways of ancient Maya commoners

Contributor Bio:  Lohse, Jon C Jon C. Lohse, a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin, is Principal Investigator of the Blue Creek Regional Political Ecology Project in northwestern Belize. Contributor Bio:  Valdez, Fred, Jr Fred Valdez, Jr., is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He coordinates multidisciplinary research in northwestern Belize as Director of the Programme for Belize Archaeological Project.