Petexbatun Regional Archaeological Project – A Multidisciplinary Study of the Maya Collapse
A Multidisciplinary Study of the Collapse of a Classic Maya Kingdom
Series: Vanderbilt Institute of Mesoamerican Archaeology;
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date of Publication 24 February 2026
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780826514431
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 266x196x17 mm
- Weight 1880 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 maps, 9 figures, 29 drawings, 12 photographs, references, index 700
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Short description:
Provides an overview to the multi-volume ""Petexbatun"" project series, describing the objectives, structure, personnel, and findings of the seven-year investigation. This book provides answers to some questions about the Classic Maya collapse, and features a preview of evidence on the debate over the fate of the Classic Maya civilization.
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This overview and introduction to the multi-volume ""Petexbatun"" project series describes the objectives, structure, personnel, and major findings of the seven-year multidisciplinary investigation. The previous research, issues, and problem-orientation of the project are reviewed, and an unusually frank history of the 1989-1996 field investigations is presented. Final results of the dozen ""Petexbatun"" subprojects are previewed, including summaries of site-specific studies of centers and subordinate kingdoms and the regional disciplinary subprojects exploring osteology, ecology, faunal studies, ceramics, epigraphic history, settlement patterns, defensive systems, caves, and other aspects of Classic period civilization and culture change. Then, based on the project's findings, Demarest presents interpretive reconstructions of the linked historics of the Pasion River kingdoms and correlates these interpretations with the variable evidence and culture-histories of other regions of the Classic Maya lowlands. He points out that only through linking such accurate regional culture-histories can we begin to understand the eighth- through tenth-century changes in Classic Maya civilization. The volume describes how the ""Petexbatun"" project addressed this challenge in its research design, structure, and large, multicentered zone of study. Building on the previous 20 years of Harvard research in adjacent zones, the Vanderbilt projects succeeded in reconstructing events and processes throughout the Pasion River Valley, the largest single inland trade route of the ancient Maya world. In its conclusions, this first of the ""Petexbatun"" volumes of multidisciplinary studies, evidence, analyses, and interpretations, provides answers to some long-standing questions about the ""Classic Maya collapse,"" as well as a new, preliminary culture-history of the abandonment, decline, or transformation of the Classic Maya kingdoms of the western Peten. It is an exciting preview and summary of a decade of evidence on the debate over the fate of the Classic Maya civilization, one of the great controversies in the history of Pre-Columbian archaeology.
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