Ancient Maya pottery classification, analysis, and interpretation (University Press of Florida, 2013)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Type-Variety: What Works and What Doesn't; 3. Types and Traditions, Spheres and Systems: A Consideration of Analytic Constructs and Concepts in the Classification and Interpretation of Maya Ceramics; 4. Interpreting Form and Context: Ceramic Subcomplexes at Caracol, Nohmul, and Santa Rita Corozal, Belize; 5. Ceramic Resemblances, Trade, and Emulation: Changing Utilitarian Pottery Traditions in the Maya Lowlands
6. Type-Variety on Trial: Experiments in Classification and Meaning Using Ceramic Assemblages from Lamanai, Belize7. Establishing the Cunil Ceramic Complex at Cahal Pech, Belize; 8. Technological Style and Terminal Preclassic Orange Ceramics in the Holmul Region, Guatemala; 9. Acanmul, Becán, and the Xcocom Phenomenon through a Type-Variety Looking Glass: Resolving Historical Enigmas through Hands-On Typological Assessments; 10. Looking for Times: How Type-Variety Analysis Helps Us "See" the Early Postclassic in Northwestern Honduras
11. Slips, Styles, and Trading Patterns: A Postclassic Perspective from Central Petén, Guatemala12. Mayapán's Chen Mul Modeled Effigy Censers: Iconography and Archaeological Context; 13. Problems and Prospects in Maya Ceramic Classification, Analysis, and Interpretation; References; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.
The ancient Maya produced a broad range of ceramics that has attracted concerted scholarly attention for over a century. Pottery sherds--the most abundant artifacts recovered from sites--reveal much about artistic expression, religious ritual, economic systems, cooking traditions, and cultural exchange in Maya society. Today, nearly every Maya archaeologist uses the type-variety classificatory framework for studying sherd collections. This impressive volume brings together many of the archaeologists signally involved in the analysis and interpretation of ancient Maya ceramics and rep