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Tikal: Dynasties, Foreigners, and Affairs of State: Advancing Maya Archaeology - Sabloff, Jeremy A (Editor)
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New insights from the Tikal excavations and epigraphic breakthroughs suggest that a thriving marketplace existed in the center of the city, that foreigners comprised a significant element of its populace, and that differences in tomb form and contents signal the changing fortunes of Tikal's rulers. Essay topics include the timing of the foundation of the Tikal dynasty, the earliest experiments in socio-political complexity, the 6th-7th century hiatus in monument erection, the reassertion of central authority around A.D. 700 ...

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Tikal: Dynasties, Foreigners, and Affairs of State: Advancing Maya Archaeology 2003, School for Advanced Research Press

ISBN-13: 9781930618220

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