Before the Volcano Erupted : The Ancient Ceren Village in Central America (1ST)

Before the Volcano Erupted : The Ancient Ceren Village in Central America (1ST)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 226 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780292777613
  • DDC分類 972.8422

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On an August evening around AD 600, residents of the Ceren village in the Zapotitan Valley of what is now El Salvador were sitting down to their nightly meal when ground tremors and loud steam emissions warned of an impending volcanic eruption. The villagers fled, leaving their town to be buried under five meters of volcanic ash and forgotten until a bulldozer uncovered evidence of the extraordinarily preserved town in 1976. The most intact Precolumbian village in Latin America, Ceren has been called the "Pompeii of the New World." This book and its accompanying CD-ROM and website (ceren.colorado.edu) present complete and detailed reports of the excavations carried out at Ceren since 1978 by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, ethnographers, volcanologists, geophysicists, botanists, conservators, and others. The book is divided into sections that discuss the physical environment and resources, household structures and economy, special buildings and their uses, artifact analysis, and topical and theoretical issues.As the authors present and analyze Ceren's houses and their goods, workshops, civic and religious buildings, kitchen gardens, planted fields, and garbage dumps, a new and much clearer picture of how commoners lived during the Maya Classic Period emerges. These findings constitute landmark contributions to the anthropology and archaeology of Central America.

Contents

* Preface (Payson Sheets) * Introduction (Payson Sheets, with an Appendix by Brian R. McKee) * Part I. Multidisciplinary Research *Volcanology, Stratigraphy, and Effects on Structures (C. Dan Miller) * Geophysical Exploration at Ceren (Lawrence B. Conyers and Hartmut Spetzler) * Ceren Plant Resources: Abundance and Diversity (David L. Lentz and Carlos R. Ramirez-Sosa) * Part II. Household Archaeology *Ancient Home and Garden: The View from Household 1 at Ceren (Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, Scott E. Simmons, and David B. Tucker) * Household 2 at Ceren: The Remains of an Agrarian and Craft-Oriented Corporate Group (Brian R. McKee) * Structure 16: The Kitchen of Household 3 (Inga Calvin) * Structure 4: A Storehouse-Workshop for Household 4 (Andrea I. Gerstle and Payson Sheets) * Part III. Special Buildings *The Civic Complex (Andrea I. Gerstle) * Structure 9: A Precolumbian Sweat Bath at Ceren (Brian R. McKee) * Structure 10: Feasting and Village Festivals (Linda A. Brown and Andrea I. Gerstle) * Divination at Ceren: The Evidence from Structure 12 (Scott E. Simmons and Payson Sheets) * Part IV. Artifacts *Ceramics and Their Use at Ceren (Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, with contributions by Ronald L. Bishop) * The Chipped Stone Artifacts of Ceren (Payson Sheets) * Groundstone Artifacts in the Ceren Village (Payson Sheets) * Household and Community Animal Use at Ceren (Linda A. Brown) * Artifacts Made from Plant Materials (Harriet F. Beaubien and Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett) * Part V. Topics and Issues of Ceren Research * The Conservation Program at Ceren (Harriet F. Beaubien) * Household Production and Specialization at Ceren (Payson Sheets and Scott E. Simmons) * Cultivating Biodiversity: Milpas, Gardens, and the Classic Period Landscape (Payson Sheets and Michelle Woodward) * Continuity and Change in the Contemporary Community of Joya de Ceren (Carlos Benjamin Lara M. and Sarah B. Barber) * Summary and Conclusions (Payson Sheets) * Glossary * References * Index