Cerro Palenque: Power and Identity on the Maya Periphery

by Rosemary A. Joyce

Book Overview

Excavations at Cerro Palenque, a hilltop site in the Ulua Valley of northwest Honduras, revolutionized scholars' ideas about the Terminal Classic period (roughly ad 850-1050) of Maya history and about the way in which cultures of the southeast Maya periphery related to the Lowland Maya. In this pathfinding study, Rosemary Joyce combines archaeological data gleaned from site research in 1980-1983 with anthropological theory about the evolution of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477306153
• ISBN13: 9781477306154
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"