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Hardcover
+ CD | 8.5 X 11” | 376 pp.
207 b/w images | 18 color images | 185 tables
ISBN 1-931707-91-X
ISBN 978-1-931707-91-6
$100
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Settlement
Archaeology at Quiriguá, Guatemala
Wendy
Ashmore
This monograph reports the results of the Quiriguá
Project Site Periphery Program, five seasons (1975-1979)
of archaeological survey and excavation in the 96 km2
immediately adjoining the Classic Maya site of Quiriguá.
Ashmore identifies and helps us understand where and how
the people of Quiriguá lived. She presents detailed
material evidence in two data catalogues, for the floodplain
settlement adjoining Quiriguá and for sites in
the wider periphery.
The work situates Quiriguá settlement firmly in
a regional context, benefiting from the extraordinary
abundance of information amassed in southeastern Mesoamerica
since 1979. It sheds new light on the political, economic,
and social dynamics of the region including the sometimes-fractious
interactions between Quiriguá, its overlords at
Copan, and people elsewhere in the Lower Motagua Valley
and beyond.
Wendy
Ashmore is Professor of Anthropology at University of
California, Riverside.
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