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E-book Painted Pottery of Honduras : Object Lives and Itineraries

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This book is an experiment. Starting in the late 1970s, I began conducting ar-chaeological research in the lower Ulua River valley, a 2400 square kilometer swathe of lowlands that stretches over 70 km inland from the Caribbean coast. One of my earliest and continuing interests has been the pottery of the region, particularly the vessels called Ulua Polychromes. Long collected by museums, Ulua Polychromes have nonetheless suffered from a history of being under-stood from the perspective of Maya societies to the west, rather than from the sites where they were made, used, and discarded. The main exceptions to this generalization have been undergraduate honors papers, masters’ theses, and doctoral dissertations that are sometimes difficult to obtain. Even the authors of these works have had to contend with a history of inconsistent field projects that resulted only in preliminary reports without follow-up, severely limiting the available information for interpretation of complete objects in museum collections, and offering often unrepresentative representations of Ulua Poly-chromes recovered in excavations.In the 1980s and 1990s, I began a series of publications attempting to convey what I had learned about these things from my work as an archaeologist in the field, and as a researcher working with major museum collections in the United States and Honduras. The challenge was that I could not assume readers knew anything about the archaeology of Honduras, except perhaps the great Classic Maya site, Copan, located far west of the lower Ulua Valley, and in my view hav-ing little consequential engagement with societies that I have studied. Unlike comparable efforts at presenting models for understanding polychrome pot-tery from sites in the lowlands of Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico, there are still almost no widely available publications providing context for Ulua pottery. This is a serious problem because, as I and other scholars working in Honduras have argued, the forms of social organization in place during the period of pro-duction of Ulua Polychromes were vastly different than the more familiar ar-chaic states of the Guatemalan Peten and Yucatan peninsula. So every attempt I have made since 1985 to develop a book dedicated to Ulua Polychromes–and this is the third full draft of such a work I have produced–has ended up spend-ing far more time on broader archaeology than on the specifics of the pottery itself.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

972.83 JOY p

Penerbit

Belgium : BRILL., 2017

Deskripsi Fisik

366 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789004341500

Klasifikasi

972.83

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

History of Honduras

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

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