Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism: Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics

Integrating recent lidar survey data with more traditional excavation and artifact-based archaeological practices, chapters in this volume offer broadened perspectives on the patterns of Maya urban design and planning by viewing bottom-up and self-organizing processes as integral to the form, development, and dissolution of Classic lowland cities alongside potentially centralized civic designs. Full of innovative examples of how to build an archaeology of urbanism that can be applied not just to the lowland Maya and across the region, Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism simultaneously improves interpretations of lowland Maya culture history and contributes to empirical and comparative discussions of tropical, non-Western cities worldwide.

Contributors: Divina Perla Barrera, Arianna Campiani, Cyril Castanet, Adrian S. Z. Chase, Lydie Dussol, Sara Dzul G鏮gora, Keith Eppich, Thomas Garrison, Mar燰 Rocio Gonz嫮ez de la Mata, Timothy Hare, Julien Hiquet, Takeshi Inomata, Eva Lemonnier, Jos?Francisco Osorio Le鏮, Marilyn Masson, Elsa Damaris Men幯dez, Timothy Murtha, Philippe Nond嶮廩, Keith M. Prufer, Louise Purdue, Francisco P廨ez Ru瞵, Julien Sion, Travis Stanton, Rodrigo Liendo Stuardo, Karl A. Taube, Marc Test? Amy E. Thompson, Daniela Triadan