How the Maya Built Their World: Energetics and Ancient Architecture - Tapa blanda

Abrams, Elliot M.

 
9780292704626: How the Maya Built Their World: Energetics and Ancient Architecture
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ISBN 10: 0292704623 ISBN 13: 9780292704626
Editorial: Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas, 1994

Sinopsis

Maya architecture is often described as "massive" and "monumental," but experiments at Copan, Honduras, convinced Elliot Abrams that 300 people could have built one of the large palaces there in only 100 days.

In this groundbreaking work, Abrams explicates his theory of architectural energetics, which involves translating structures into volumes of raw and manufactured materials that are then multiplied by the time required for their production and assembly to determine the labor costs of past construction efforts. Applying this method to residential structures of the Late Classic period (A.D. 700-900) at Copan leads Abrams to posit a six-tiered hierarchic social structure of political decision making, ranging from a stratified elite to low-ranking commoners. By comparing the labor costs of construction and other economic activities, he also prompts a reconsideration of the effects of royal construction demands on commoners.

How the Maya Built Their World will interest a wide audience in New and Old World anthropology, archaeology, architecture, and engineering.

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Elliot M. Abrams is an associate professor of anthropology at Ohio University.

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Editorial
Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
Año de publicación
1994
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0292704623
ISBN 13 
9780292704626
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
196
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9780292704619: How the Maya Built Their World: Energetics and Ancient Architecture

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ISBN 10:  0292704615 ISBN 13:  9780292704619
Editorial: University of Texas Press, 1994
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