Macanche Island, El Peten, Guatemala: Excavations, Pottery, and Artifacts by Prudence M Rice ISBN 13: 9780813008387

University Press of Florida. Used - Very Good. First Edition. 1987 Hardcover. Very Good.

University Press of Florida, 1987-08-20. Hardcover. Good. 0.7992 10.5984 7.7008. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover shows light shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

"This work makes a solid contribution to our understanding of a poorly known era in cenral lowland Maya prehistory.... It also provides stratigraphic evidence for phasing the subdivisions of the Postclassic era, offering important support for a detailed chronology of this era in the central lowlands--an unresolved and disputed issue until now." -- Robert J. Sharer, University of Pennsylvania "Rice has written the best and most comprehensive study of Postclassic pottery from the southern Maya lowlands. We have precious few windows into the panorama of late Maya history in the Peten, and the ceramics, although they can never tell us all we wish to know, give us some of the most detailed information we are ever likely to have on the centuries after the southern Maya collapse" -- E. Wyllys Andrews V, Tulane University In reconsidering the transition from the Classic to the Postclassic period of Maya civilization in the Department of Peten, Guatemala, Prudence Rice challenges traditional concepts of… Read more

xvi+267 pages with plates (some in color), charts, tables, photographs, appendices and index. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8") bound in original publisher's red cloth with silver lettering to spine in pictorial jacket. First edition. Prudence Rice places the rural outpost of Macanche Island within the larger geographical and historical context of the Yucatan peninsula during the Postclassic period. She weaves together analyses of the artifacts, largely ceramics, of Bullard's 1968 excavation with the artifacts found in later excavations focused on the Peten lake basins. Typological descriptions of the pottery are supplemented by analyses of function, slip and paste and by discussions of locally manufacture imported material. This book enables us to reconstruct and understand the role of rural outposts of a powerful civilization during a time of economic and political chaos. Condition: Jacket small closed tear at front head else a fine copy in a near fine jacket.

Gainesville, FL: University Presses of Florida, 1987. VERY GOOD/POOR. Spine slightly cocked, corners of boards lightly bumped, price sticker and previous owner name and date on front free endpaper. Jacket worn, lightly soiled, with numerous chips and tears, large piece missing from rear panel. xvi, 267 pp., 78 figs., 18 tables, xxiv plates (some color).. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 4to.

University Press of Florida, 1987-08-20. Hardcover. Good.

Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.: University of Florida Press, 1987. (16)267pp + 2pp color plates. Maps, drawings, photos. Detailed & technical.. First Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

University Press of Florida, 1987-08-20. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Jacket edges have small tears to the top, minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. "This work makes a solid contribution to our understanding of a poorly known era in cenral lowland Maya prehistory.... It also provides stratigraphic evidence for phasing the subdivisions of the Postclassic era, offering important support for a detailed chronology of this era in the central lowlands--an unresolved and disputed issue until now." -- Robert J. Sharer, University of Pennsylvania "Rice has written the best and most comprehensive study of Postclassic pottery from the southern Maya lowlands. We have precious few windows into the panorama of late Maya history in the Peten, and the ceramics, although they can never tell us all we wish to know, give us some of the most detailed information we are ever likely to have on the centuries after the southern Maya collapse" -- E. Wyllys Andrews V, Tulane… Read more

University Press of Florida, 1987. Hard cover. Clothbound, 8 x 10 1/2 in., 267 pages, references, index. 2 pages color plates, 24 b&w plates, 78 figures. Maya site report, mainly postclassic ceramics. Condition fine in a very good dust jacket.

University Press of Florida, 1989-03-31. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.0285 cent in x 26.8996 cent in x 19.5451 cent in. University Press of Florida, 1989. Original dustjacket, in very good condition. Clean and tight copy, no previous owner inscription.