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Kukulcan's Realm

Urban Life at Ancient Mayapán

University Press of Colorado

Kukulcan's Realm chronicles the fabric of socioeconomic relationships and religious practice that bound the Postclassic Maya city of Mayapán's urban residents together for nearly three centuries. Presenting results of ten years of household archaeology at the city, including field research and laboratory analysis, the book discusses the social, political, economic, and ideological makeup of this complex urban center.

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Transient Landscapes

Insights on a Changing Planet

University Press of Colorado
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Thiefing a Chance

Factory Work, Illicit Labor, and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Trinidad

University Press of Colorado
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The Verging Cities

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
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The Ecology of Pastoralism

University Press of Colorado
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Bridging the Gaps

Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico; A Volume in Memory of Bruce E. Byland

University Press of Colorado
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Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies

University Press of Colorado

Ancient market activities are dynamic in the economies of most ancient states, yet they have received little research from the archaeological community. Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies is the first book to address the development, change, and organizational complexity of ancient markets from a comparative archaeological perspective.

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Ancient Zapotec Religion

An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Perspective

University Press of Colorado
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In the Realm of Nachan Kan

Postclassic Maya Archaeology at Laguna De On, Belize

University Press of Colorado

i>In the Realm of Nachan Kan</i> opens a window on Postclassic Maya patterns of cultural development and organization through a close examination of the small rural island of Laguna de On, a location that was distant from the governing political centers of the day.

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Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany

University Press of Colorado

Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making, biodiversity, and global environmental change, and has much to offer to archaeology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary study of human relationships with the natural world. Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany demonstrates those connections and highlights the increasing relevance of the study of past human-plant interactions for understanding the present and future.

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Old Blue's Road

A Historian's Motorcycle Journeys in the American West

University Press of Colorado
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Ancient Tollan

Tula and the Toltec Heartland

University Press of Colorado
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Wyoming Revisited

Rephotographing the Scenes of Joseph E. Stimson

University Press of Colorado

In Wyoming Revisited, Michael A. Amundson uses the power of rephotography to show how landscapes across the state have endured over the last century. Three sets of photographs—the original black-and-white photographs taken by famed Wyoming photographer Joseph E. Stimson more than a century ago, repeat black-and-white images taken by Amundson in the 1980s, and a third view taken by the author in 2007–08—are accompanied by captions explaining the history and importance of each site as well as information on the process of repeat photographic fieldwork.

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Sacred Darkness

A Global Perspective on the Ritual Use of Caves

Edited by Holley Moyes
University Press of Colorado

. In Sacred Darkness, contributors use archaeological evidence as well as ethnographic studies of modern ritual practices to envision the cave as place of spiritual and ideological power that emerges as a potent venue for ritual practice.

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Gambling Debt

Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy

University Press of Colorado
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Elusive Unity

Factionalism and the Limits of Identity Politics in Yucatán, Mexico

University Press of Colorado

In Elusive Unity, Armstrong-Fumero examines early twentieth-century peasant politics and twenty-first-century indigenous politics in the rural Oriente region of Yucatán.

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Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East

Recent Contributions from Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology

University Press of Colorado
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Class Not Dismissed

Reflections on Undergraduate Education and Teaching the Liberal Arts

University Press of Colorado

In Class Not Dismissed, award-winning professor Anthony Aveni tells the personal story of his six decades in college classrooms and some of the 10,000 students who have filled them. Through anecdotes of his own triumphs and tribulations—some amusing, others heartrending—Aveni reveals his teaching story and thoughts on the future of higher education.

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No One Ailing Except a Physician

Medicine in the Mining West, 1848-1919

University Press of Colorado

No One Ailing Except a Physician takes readers back to those free-wheeling days in the mining towns and the dark recesses of the mines themselves, a time when illness or injury was usually survived more due to sheer luck than the interventions of medicine.

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Obsidian Reflections

Symbolic Dimensions of Obsidian in Mesoamerica

University Press of Colorado

Departing from the political economy perspective taken by the vast majority of volumes devoted to Mesoamerican obsidian, Obsidian Reflections is an examination of obsidian's sociocultural dimensions—particularly in regard to Mesoamerican world view, religion, and belief systems.

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Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology

From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains

University Press of Colorado

As the Ice Age waned, Clovis hunter-gatherers began to explore and colonize the area now known as Colorado. Their descendents and later Paleoindian migrants spread throughout Colorado's plains and mountains, adapting to diverse landforms and the changing climate. In this new volume, Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado assemble experts in archaeology, paleoecology-climatology, and paleofaunal analysis to share new discoveries about these ancient people of Colorado

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The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community

University Press of Colorado

In The Evolution of Production Organization in a Maya Community, Dean E. Arnold continues his unique approach to ceramic ethnoarchaeology, tracing the history of potters in Ticul, Yucatán, and their production space over a period of more than four decades. This follow-up to his 2008 work Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution uses narrative to trace the changes in production personnel and their spatial organization through the changes in production organization in Ticul.

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Industrializing the Rockies

Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914

University Press of Colorado

In Industrializing the Rockies, David A. Wolff places the deadly conflicts and strikes as well as the racial tensions and the economics of the coal industry in the context of the Western coal industry from its inception in 1868 to the age of maturity in the early twentieth century. The result is the first book-length study of the emergence of coalfield labor relations and a general overview of the role of coal mining in the American West.

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A Prehistory of South America

Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent

University Press of Colorado
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The Logan Notebooks

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
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Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World

From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century

University Press of Colorado
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Texcoco

Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives

University Press of Colorado
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