Settlement and politics in three classic Maya polities

Description:

"Settlement pattern data from the Greater Rosario Valley, Chiapas - the southwest periphery of lowland Maya civilization - are analyzed with an emphasis on the late/terminal classic period. A variety of settlement/political models, from the household to regional levels, are considered; favors a segmentary-state system of political organization"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

subjects: Antiquities,  Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric,  Mayas,  Politics and government,  Prehistoric Land settlement patterns

Places: Mexico,  Rosario Valley,  Rosario Valley (Mexico)