The Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies: From Farmers’ Fields to Rulers’ Realms

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The Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies
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List of Figures
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Foreword
List of Abbreviations
PART I. THEORETICAL APPROACHES
	1. Nuts, Bolts, and Bridges: Some Reflections
	2. Modeling Maya Markets
	3. A New Direction in the Study of Ancient Maya Economics: Language, Logic, and Models from Strategic Management Studies
PART II. HOUSEHOLD AND COMMUNITY ECONOMIES AND RESOURCES
	4. Similar Markets, Different Economies: Comparing Small Households at Tikal and Chunchucmil
	5. Rural Economies of Agrarian Houselots before and after the Rise of Urban Mayapán
	6. Stone for My House: The Economics of Stoneworking and Elite Housing in the Puuc Hills of Yucatán
	7. Chert Resource Availability, Production, and Economic Logic: Case Studies from the Northwestern Petén, Guatemala, and Western Belize
	8. The Ancient Maya Economic Landscape of Caracol, Belize
	9. Commerce, Redistribution, Autarky, and Barter: The Multitiered Urban Economy of El Perú–Waka’, Guatemala
	10. Large-Scale Production of Basic Commodities at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala: Implications for Ancient Maya Political Economy
PART III. AGRICULTURE, CLIMATE, LAND
	11. Gardens of the Maya
	12. Yucatec Land and Labor before and after Spanish Incursions
	13. Maya Cornucopia: Indigenous Food Plants of the Maya Lowlands
	14. Service Relationships within the Broader Economy of Cerén, a Young Maya Village
PART IV. POLITICAL ELITES, WEALTHY PERSONS, AND ECONOMIC ADMINISTRATION
	15. A Discrepancy between Elite Office and Economic Status in the El Palmar Dynasty: A View from the Guzmán Group of El Palmar, Mexico
	16. Bundling the Sticks: A Case for Classic Maya Tallies
	17. Maya Economic Organization and Power: A View from Elite Households at Aguateca
PART V. ECONOMIC EXCHANGE SPHERES: ROUTES, FACILITIES, AND SYMBOLIC CONTEXTS
	18. Economic Interactions and the Rise of Sociopolitical Complexity in the Maya Lowlands: A Perspective from the Mirador-Calakmul Basin
	19. Classic Maya Interaction Networks and the Production and Consumption of Cotton Fiber and Textiles
	20. The Political Geography of Long-Distance Exchange in the Elevated Interior Region of the Yucatán Peninsula
	21. An Intracoastal Waterway and Trading Port System in Prehispanic Northwest Yucatán, Mexico
	22. The Difference a Marketplace Makes: A View of Maya Market Exchange from the Late Classic Buenavista del Cayo Marketplace
	23. Decentralizing the Economies of the Maya West
	24. A Stone Duty? Flake Ritual Deposits and the Missing Workshops of the Maya Lowlands
	25. Terminal Classic Interactions between the Western Petén Lakes Chain and the Western Lowlands
	26. Maya Economics: Through a Glass, Sideways (One More Time)
	27. Conclusion: The Ties That Bind
Appendix: Indigenous Food Plants of the Maya Lowlands
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index