The Real Business Of Ancient Maya Economies: From Farmers’ Fields To Rulers’ Realms (maya Studies)

A timely synthesis of the latest research and perspectives on ancient Maya economics, this volume illuminates the sophistication and intricacy of economic systems in the Preclassic, Classic, and Postclassic periods.Contributors from a wide range of disciplines move beyond paradigms of elite control and centralized exchange to focus on individual agency, highlighting production and exchange that took place at all levels of society. Case studies draw on new archaeological evidence from rural households and urban marketplaces to reconstruct the trade networks for tools, ceramics, obsidian, salt, and agricultural goods throughout the empire. They also describe the ways household production integrated with community, regional, and interregional markets.Redirecting the field of ancient Maya economic studies away from simplistic characterizations of the past by fully representing the range of current views on the subject, this volume delves deeply into multiple facets of a complex, interdependent material world. Contributors: Anthony P. Andrews Chloé Andrieu Beatriz Balcárcel Adolfo Iván Batún George Bey Ronald L. Bishop Geoffrey E. Braswell Marcello Canuto Bernadette Cap Arlen F. Chase Diane Z. Chase Rubén Chuc Aguilar Maia Dedrick Pedro Delgado Kú, Arthur A. Demarest Keith Eppich Bárbara Escamilla Ojeda Scott L. Fedick Luis Flores Cobá Lynda Florey Folan William J. Folan David A. Freidel Tomás Gallareta Negrón Charles Golden Stanley P. Guenter Joel D. Gunn Richard D. Hansen Timothy S. Hare Enrique Hernández Rachel A. Horowitz Scott R. Hutson Takeshi Inomata Eleanor M. King Marilyn A. Masson Patricia A. McAnany Carlos Morales-Aguilar Carlos Peraza Lope Dorie Reents-Budet Prudence M. Rice William Ringle Fernando Robles Castellanos Alejandra Roche Recinos Bradley W. Russell Andrew Scherer Whittaker Schroder Payson Sheets Edgar Suyuc Alexandre Tokovinine Paola Torres Daniela Triadan Kenichiro Tsukamoto Clive Vella Bart Victor Beniamino Volta Brent K. S. Woodfill Andrew R. Wyatt Norman Yoffee A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. ChaseISBN : 9780813066295 Part I. Theoretical Approaches -- Nuts, Bolts, And Bridges: Some Reflections / David A. Freidel -- Modeling Maya Markets / Eleanor King -- A New Direction In The Study Of Ancient Maya Economics: Language, Logic, And Models From Strategic Management Studies / Arthur A. Demarest, Bart Victor, Chloe Andrieu, And Paola Torres -- Part Ii. Household And Community Economies And Resources -- Understanding Variability In Distribution And Consumption In Low-wealth Households From The Classic Period / Scott Hutson -- Rural Economies At Agrarian Houselots Before And After The Rise Of Urban Mayapan / Marilyn Masson, Carlos Peraza Lope, Timothy Hare, Bradley Russell, Pedro -- Delgado K, Barbara Escamilla Ojeda, And Luis Flores Cob -- Stone For My House: The Economics Of Stoneworking And Elite Housing In The Puuc Hills Of Yucatan / William Ringle, Tom S Gallareta Negron, And George Bey -- Chert Resource Availability, Production, And Economic Logic: Case Studies From The Northwestern Peten, Guatemala, And Western Belize / Rachel Horowitz, Marcello Canuto And Chloe Andrieu -- The Ancient Maya Economic Landscape Of Caracol, Belize / Diane Z. Chase And Arlen F. Chase -- Commerce, Autarky, Barter, And Redistribution: The Multi-tiered Urban Economy Of El Peru-waka?, Guatemala / Keith Eppich -- Large-scale Production Of Basic Commodities At Salinas De Los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala: Implications For Ancient Maya Political Economy / Brent Woodfill -- Part Iii. Agriculture, Climate, Land -- Gardens Of The Maya / Andrew Wyatt -- Yucatan Land And Labor Before And After Spanish Incursions / Adolfo Ivan Baten Alpuche, Patricia A. Mcanany And Maia Dedrick -- Maya Cornucopia: Indigenous Food Plants Of The Maya Lowlands / Scott L. Fedick -- Service Relationships Within The Broader Economy Of Ceran, A Young Maya Village / Payson Sheets -- Part Iv. Political Elites, Wealthy Persons, And Economic Administration -- A Discrepancy Between Elite Office And Economic Status In The El Palmar Dynasty, Mexico / Kenichiro Tsukamoto -- Bundling The Sticks: Tallies In Classic Maya Inscriptions / Alexandre Tokovinine -- Maya Economic Organization And Power: Elite Households At Aguateca / Daniela Triadan And Takeshi Inomata -- Part V. Economic Exchange Spheres: Routes, Facilities, And Symbolic Contexts -- Economic Interaction And The Rise Of Socio-political Complexity In The Maya Lowlands: The Case From The Mirador Basin / Richard Hansen, Edgar Suyuc, Stanley Guenter, Carlos Morales-aguilar, Enrique -- Hernandez, And Beatriz Balcarcel -- The Contents, Roles, And Meanings Of Tribute Among The Classic Maya / Dorie Reents-budet And Ronald Bishop -- The Political Geography Of Long-distance Exchange In The Elevated Interior Region Of The Yucatan Peninsula / Beniamino Volta, Joel D. Gunn, Lynda Florey Folan, William J. Folan, And -- Geoffrey E. Braswell -- An Intracoastal Waterway And Trading Port System In Prehispanic Northwest Yucatan, Mexico / Fernando Robles Castellanos, Anthony P. Andrews, And Ruben Chuc Aquilar -- The Difference A Marketplace Makes: A View Of Maya Market Exchange From The Late Classic Buenavista Del Cayo Marketplace / Bernadette Cap -- Decentralizing The Economies Of The Maya West / Charles Golden, Andrew Scherer, Whittaker Schroder, Clive Vella, And Alejandra Roche Recinos -- A Stone Duty? Flake Ritual Deposits And The Missing Workshops Of The Maya Lowlands / Chloe Andrieu -- Terminal Classic Interactions Between The Western Peten Lakes Chain And The Western Lowlands / Prudence Rice -- Maya Economics: Through A Glass, Sideways (one More Time) / Norman Yoffee -- Conclusion: The Ties That Bind / Marilyn Masson -- Appendix. Indigenous Food Plants Of The Maya Lowlands / Scott L. Fedick Edited By Marilyn A. Masson, David A. Freidel, And Arthur A. Demarest. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web. Cover The Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies Title Copyright Contents List of Figures List of Tables Foreword List of Abbreviations PART I. THEORETICAL APPROACHES 1. Nuts, Bolts, and Bridges: Some Reflections 2. Modeling Maya Markets 3. A New Direction in the Study of Ancient Maya Economics: Language, Logic, and Models from Strategic Management Studies PART II. HOUSEHOLD AND COMMUNITY ECONOMIES AND RESOURCES 4. Similar Markets, Different Economies: Comparing Small Households at Tikal and Chunchucmil 5. Rural Economies of Agrarian Houselots before and after the Rise of Urban Mayapán 6. Stone for My House: The Economics of Stoneworking and Elite Housing in the Puuc Hills of Yucatán 7. Chert Resource Availability, Production, and Economic Logic: Case Studies from the Northwestern Petén, Guatemala, and Western Belize 8. The Ancient Maya Economic Landscape of Caracol, Belize 9. Commerce, Redistribution, Autarky, and Barter: The Multitiered Urban Economy of El Perú–Waka’, Guatemala 10. Large-Scale Production of Basic Commodities at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala: Implications for Ancient Maya Political Economy PART III. AGRICULTURE, CLIMATE, LAND 11. Gardens of the Maya 12. Yucatec Land and Labor before and after Spanish Incursions 13. Maya Cornucopia: Indigenous Food Plants of the Maya Lowlands 14. Service Relationships within the Broader Economy of Cerén, a Young Maya Village PART IV. POLITICAL ELITES, WEALTHY PERSONS, AND ECONOMIC ADMINISTRATION 15. A Discrepancy between Elite Office and Economic Status in the El Palmar Dynasty: A View from the Guzmán Group of El Palmar, Mexico 16. Bundling the Sticks: A Case for Classic Maya Tallies 17. Maya Economic Organization and Power: A View from Elite Households at Aguateca PART V. ECONOMIC EXCHANGE SPHERES: ROUTES, FACILITIES, AND SYMBOLIC CONTEXTS 18. Economic Interactions and the Rise of Sociopolitical Complexity in the Maya Lowlands: A Perspective from the Mirador-Calakmul Basin 19. Classic Maya Interaction Networks and the Production and Consumption of Cotton Fiber and Textiles 20. The Political Geography of Long-Distance Exchange in the Elevated Interior Region of the Yucatán Peninsula 21. An Intracoastal Waterway and Trading Port System in Prehispanic Northwest Yucatán, Mexico 22. The Difference a Marketplace Makes: A View of Maya Market Exchange from the Late Classic Buenavista del Cayo Marketplace 23. Decentralizing the Economies of the Maya West 24. A Stone Duty? Flake Ritual Deposits and the Missing Workshops of the Maya Lowlands 25. Terminal Classic Interactions between the Western Petén Lakes Chain and the Western Lowlands 26. Maya Economics: Through a Glass, Sideways (One More Time) 27. Conclusion: The Ties That Bind Appendix: Indigenous Food Plants of the Maya Lowlands Bibliography List of Contributors Index A timely synthesis of the latest research and perspectives on ancient Maya economics, this volume illuminates the sophistication and intricacy of economic systems in the Preclassic, Classic, and Postclassic periods. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines move beyond paradigms of elite control and centralized exchange to focus on individual agency, highlighting production and exchange that took place at all levels of society. Case studies draw on new archaeological evidence from rural households and urban marketplaces to reconstruct the trade networks for tools, ceramics, obsidian, salt, and agricultural goods throughout the empire. They also describe the ways household production integrated with community, regional, and interregional markets. Redirecting the field of ancient Maya economic studies away from simplistic characterizations of the past by fully representing the range of current views on the subject, this volume delves deeply into multiple facets of a complex, interdependent material world. Contributors: Anthony P. Andrews | Chloé Andrieu | Beatriz Balcárcel | Adolfo Iván Batún | George Bey | Ronald L. Bishop | Geoffrey E. Braswell | Marcello Canuto | Bernadette Cap | Arlen F. Chase | Diane Z. Chase | Rubén Chuc Aguilar | Maia Dedrick | Pedro Delgado Kú, | Arthur A. Demarest | Keith Eppich | Bárbara Escamilla Ojeda | Scott L. Fedick | Luis Flores Cobá | Lynda Florey Folan | William J. Folan | David A. Freidel | Tomás Gallareta Negrón | Charles Golden | Stanley P. Guenter | Joel D. Gunn | Richard D. Hansen | Timothy S. Hare | Enrique Hernández | Rachel A. Horowitz | Scott R. Hutson | Takeshi Inomata | Eleanor M. King | Marilyn A. Masson | Patricia A. McAnany | Carlos Morales-Aguilar | Carlos Peraza Lope | Dorie Reents-Budet | Prudence M. Rice | William Ringle | Fernando Robles Castellanos | Alejandra Roche Recinos| Bradley W. Russell | Andrew Scherer | Whittaker Schroder | Payson Sheets | Edgar Suyuc | Alexandre Tokovinine | Paola Torres | Daniela Triadan | Kenichiro Tsukamoto | Clive Vella | Bart Victor | Beniamino Volta | Brent K. S. Woodfill | Andrew R. Wyatt | Norman Yoffee A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase "A timely synthesis of the latest research and perspectives on ancient Maya economics, this volume illuminates the sophistication and complexity of economic systems in the Preclassic, Classic, and Postclassic periods. Fully representing the range of current views on the subject, these essays delve deeply into multiple facets of a complex, interdependent material world"-- Provided by publisher