Title Ruins of the past : the use and perception of abandoned structures in the Maya lowlands / Travis W. Stanton and Aline Magnoni, editors

Published Boulder : University Press of Colorado, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 364 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Mesoamerican worlds Mesoamerican worlds. Contents Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Note on Use of Accents -- 1: Places of Remembrance -- 2: Forgotten Structures, Haunted Houses, and Occupied Hearts -- 3: The Transformation of Abandoned Architecture at Piedras Negras -- 4: Structure Abandonment and Landscape Transformation -- 5: Manipulating Memory in the Wake of Dynastic Decline at El PerÃð-Wakaâ€? -- 6: Establishing and Reusing Sacred Place -- 7: Anatomy of a Post-Collapse Society -- 8: Landscape Transformations and Changing Perceptions at Chunchucmil, Yucatán -- 9: Edzná 10: Memories, Meanings, and Historical AwarenessAfterword -- References Cited -- Contributors -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-351) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Maya architecture. Abandoned buildings -- Mexico Abandoned buildings -- Central America Buildings -- Remodeling for other use -- Mexico Buildings -- Remodeling for other use -- Central America SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. Abandoned buildings Antiquities Buildings -- Remodeling for other use Maya architecture SUBJECT Mexico -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084538 Central America -- Antiquities Subject Central America Mexico Form Electronic book Author Stanton, Travis W., 1971- Magnoni, Aline ISBN 9781607320036 1607320037

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