The Great Maya Droughts
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The Great Maya Droughts
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Author : Richardson B. Gill
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2000
The Great Maya Droughts written by Richardson B. Gill and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Proposes a long sought solution to the mystery of the collapse of the Maya civilization: a series of severe droughts during the ninth and tenth centuries which brought famine, thirst, and death to the Maya lowlands.
The Great Maya Droughts In Cultural Context
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Author : Gyles Iannone
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2014-03-15
The Great Maya Droughts In Cultural Context written by Gyles Iannone and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-15 with Social Science categories.
In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic “collapses,” including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750–1050), were not caused solely by climate change–related droughts but by a combination of other social, political, and environmental factors. New and senior scholars of archaeology and environmental science explore the timing and intensity of droughts and provide a nuanced understanding of socio-ecological dynamics, with specific reference to what makes communities resilient or vulnerable when faced with environmental change.Contributors recognize the existence of four droughts that correlate with periods of demographic and political decline and identify a variety of concurrent political and social issues. They argue that these primary underlying factors were exacerbated by drought conditions and ultimately led to societal transitions that were by no means uniform across various sites and subregions. They also deconstruct the concept of “collapse” itself—although the line of Maya kings ended with the Terminal Classic collapse, the Maya people and their civilization survived. The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context offers new insights into the complicated series of events that impacted the decline of Maya civilization. This significant contribution to our increasingly comprehensive understanding of ancient Maya culture will be of interest to students and scholars of archaeology, anthropology, geography, and environmental studies.
The Great Maya Droughts
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Author : Richardson Benedict Gill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Great Maya Droughts written by Richardson Benedict Gill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Droughts categories.
The Great Maya Droughts In Cultural Context
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Author : Gyles Iannone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Great Maya Droughts In Cultural Context written by Gyles Iannone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic "collapses," including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750), were caused not solely by climate change-related droughts but by a combination of other social, political, and environmental factors. New and senior scholars of archaeology and environmental science explore the timing and intensity of droughts and provide a nuanced understanding of socio-ecological dynamics, with specific reference to what makes communities resilient or vulnerable when faced with environmental change. Contributors recognize the existence of four droughts that correlate with periods of demographic and political decline and identify a variety of concurrent political and social issues. They argue that these primary underlying factors were exacerbated by drought conditions and ultimately led to societal transitions that were by no means uniform across various sites and subregions. They also deconstruct the concept of "collapse" itself--although the line of Maya kings ended with the Terminal Classic collapse, the Maya people and their civilization survived
The Great Maya Droughts
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Author : Richardson Benedict Gill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Great Maya Droughts written by Richardson Benedict Gill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Central America categories.
The Great Maya Droughts
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Author : Richardson B. Gill
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2000
The Great Maya Droughts written by Richardson B. Gill and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Proposes a long sought solution to the mystery of the collapse of the Maya civilization: a series of severe droughts during the ninth and tenth centuries which brought famine, thirst, and death to the Maya lowlands.
Ritual Violence And The Fall Of The Classic Maya Kings
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Author : Gyles Iannone
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2018-11-05
Ritual Violence And The Fall Of The Classic Maya Kings written by Gyles Iannone and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-05 with Social Science categories.
Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and destruction of monuments and even violent death. This is the first comprehensive volume to focus on the varied responses to the failure of Classic period dynasties in the southern lowlands. The contributors offer new insights into the Maya "collapse," evaluating the trope of the scapegoat king and the demise of the traditional institution of kingship in the early ninth century AD--a time of intense environmental, economic, social, political, and even ideological change. A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Collapse
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Author : Jared Diamond
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-03-21
Collapse written by Jared Diamond and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-21 with History categories.
From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future. What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors. 'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis 'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times
Ancient Maya
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Author : Arthur Demarest
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-12-09
Ancient Maya written by Arthur Demarest and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-09 with History categories.
In this new archaeological study, Arthur Demarest brings the lost pre-Columbian civilization of the Maya to life. In applying a holistic perspective to the most recent evidence from archaeology, paleoecology, and epigraphy, this theoretical interpretation emphasises both the brilliant rain forest adaptations of the ancient Maya and the Native American spirituality that permeated all aspects of their daily life. Demarest draws on his own discoveries and the findings of colleagues to reconstruct the complex lifeways and volatile political history of the Classic Maya states of the first to eighth centuries. He provides a new explanation of the long-standing mystery of the ninth-century abandonment of most of the great rain forest cities. Finally, he draws lessons from the history of the Classic Maya cities for contemporary society and for the ongoing struggles and resurgence of the modern Maya peoples, who are now re-emerging from six centuries of oppression.
Understanding Collapse
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Author : Guy D. Middleton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-26
Understanding Collapse written by Guy D. Middleton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-26 with History categories.
In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.