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- Title
- Aspects of urban design in an ancient Maya center: El Pilar, Belize.
- Creator
- Wernecke, Daniel Clark., Florida Atlantic University, Kennedy, William J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
- Abstract/Description
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Research on Maya centers have focused on monogenic descriptions assuming a uniqueness of design rather than looking at Maya centers as systems encompassing multiple functions as well as an innate strategy of urban design. The analysis of Maya architecture, in particular, has often become a pseudonym for the study of individual structure's chronology rather than an examination of structures using architectural theory and method. Using data from the site of El Pilar, this thesis examines the...
Show moreResearch on Maya centers have focused on monogenic descriptions assuming a uniqueness of design rather than looking at Maya centers as systems encompassing multiple functions as well as an innate strategy of urban design. The analysis of Maya architecture, in particular, has often become a pseudonym for the study of individual structure's chronology rather than an examination of structures using architectural theory and method. Using data from the site of El Pilar, this thesis examines the restricted ways in which Maya urban centers have been architecturally analyzed in the past and will incorporate those methods, into the wider scope of architectural theory to propose a holistic analysis of one center. This analysis places ancient Maya regional centers, such as El Pilar, in a broader comparative context, one that readily enables comparisons between other regional Maya centers as well as the cities of other world cultures.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15097
- Subject Headings
- Anthropology, Archaeology
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A CERAMIC CHRONOLOGY FOR THE BISCAYNE BAY REGION OF SOUTHEAST FLORIDA.
- Creator
- MCGREGOR, ARCHIE JAMES., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
- Abstract/Description
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A chronology for the region surrounding Biscayne Bay in Southeast Florida is presented using all suitably reported ceramic material and the quantitative seriation method. The intention is to go beyond the present chronology of distinct ceramic periods to one that more clearly presents the development of the prehistoric ceramic continuum of the region. Exploration is made of the possibility of establishing ceramic areas as bases for future work toward the development of culture areas in...
Show moreA chronology for the region surrounding Biscayne Bay in Southeast Florida is presented using all suitably reported ceramic material and the quantitative seriation method. The intention is to go beyond the present chronology of distinct ceramic periods to one that more clearly presents the development of the prehistoric ceramic continuum of the region. Exploration is made of the possibility of establishing ceramic areas as bases for future work toward the development of culture areas in Southern Florida prehistory. To this end, comparative seriation material from the Everglades and Gold Coast regions is discussed.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13667
- Subject Headings
- Anthropology, Archaeology
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A Middle Woodland ceramic typology for Hatteras Island, North Carolina.
- Creator
- Block, Dorothy A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
- Abstract/Description
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This study presents a comprehensive ceramic typology for the Middle Woodland period (300 B.C.-A.D. 800) on Hatteras Island, North Carolina. It provides graphic illustrations of relative frequencies for ceramic series and types for five sites on Hatteras Island and two sites on Colington Island to the north. These data are then synthesized with comparative data from Roanoke Island and eight sites along the adjacent mainland coastal plain. They show that a significant southern influence was in...
Show moreThis study presents a comprehensive ceramic typology for the Middle Woodland period (300 B.C.-A.D. 800) on Hatteras Island, North Carolina. It provides graphic illustrations of relative frequencies for ceramic series and types for five sites on Hatteras Island and two sites on Colington Island to the north. These data are then synthesized with comparative data from Roanoke Island and eight sites along the adjacent mainland coastal plain. They show that a significant southern influence was in place on the barrier islands and coastal mainland during the Middle Woodland period. The border between the northern and southern culture regions during the Middle Woodland can be drawn at the Tar-Pamlico drainage rather than at the Neuse River to the south.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2005
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13276
- Subject Headings
- Anthropology, Archaeology
- Format
- Document (PDF)