Description: Presenting the most current research on the Maya rainforest city El Perú-Waka', this volume discusses occupation at the site spanning from 300 BC to 1000 CE and offers researchers an unmatched view of ancient life in a tropical urban environment.
Brief description: David A. Freidel, professor of anthropology emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, is coeditor of The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World: Mythic History and Ritual Order.
Review Quotes:
"Compiles years of research at an important and strategically situated Maya city, synthesizing archaeological and epigraphic data to provide a compelling narrative of life at the site. Notably, this volume places people at the center of archaeological interpretation of the past, highlighting the lives and afterlives of the city's inhabitants, alongside the other-than-human agency imbued into their material culture and monuments."--Whittaker Schroder, University of Florida
"Weaves the material facts recovered by archaeological work, textual information, and iconographic reconstruction of events with novel interpretations of social, political, and ideological aspects of the long historical record."--Rodrigo Liendo Stuardo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México