Antonia E Foias
Biographic Data
| ID | 119393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonia E Foias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonia E |
| FAMILY NAME | Foias |
| SIGNATURE | FOIAS A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3744-2908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Karen Bassie-Sweet, Maya Gods of War
Maya Gods of War. 2021. By Karen Bassie-Sweet. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado. 340pp. $82 (hardcover), Open Access (e-book)
The Earliest Maya Farmers of Peten
The origins and cultural affiliations of the first sedentary agricultural and pottery-producing communities in the southern Maya lowlands remain hotly debated. Here, we describe the discovery of a new early farming settlement at the small site of Buenavista-Nuevo San José on Lake Peten Itza in northern Guatemala. Evidence for a pre-Mamom occupation (1000–700 BC) at this site was found in the deepest fill layers overlying bedrock, including potter…
Les ordures de la maisonnée
Que peuvent nous apprendre les pratiques de rejet sur les maisonnées de la période maya classique ? La plupart des analyses archéologiques des dépotoirs se sont concentrées sur l’analyse du contenu : description, classement et comparaison de ce que contenaient les dépotoirs, afin de documenter les populations qui ont laissé de tels vestiges. L’étude des pratiques concrètes par lesquelles on se débarrasse des détritus peut encore nous en apprendre…
Household Garbage
What can the practices of discard tell us about Classic period Maya households? Most archaeological analyses of middens are concerned with an analysis of content: describing, classifying, and comparing midden contents to tell us about the people who left such remains. Yet much can be learned about households from studying the actual practices of getting rid of trash. This paper documents midden patterns from the Classic period Maya site of Motul …
Ancient Maya Political Dynamics
This book is meant to show how archaeologists worldwide understand and reconstruct ancient political systems, and more specifically, how Maya archaeologists have reconstructed political power, institutions, and dynamics among ancient Maya states during the Classic period in the first millennium A.D. The book engages with the theoretical literature in political anthropology, the debates and history of how archaeologists have reconstructed ancient …
Motul de San José
This edited volume considers the interrelationships between political and economic power during the apogee of Maya civilization in the first millennium A.D. at the center of Motul de San José in northern Guatemala. Multiple perspectives are brought to bear on the issues of political power among the Classic Maya. Epigraphers and art historians reconstruct the royal history of this center during the Late Classic from inscriptions on stone monuments…
Motul de San José
"Scholars have long debated the nature of Maya political organization during the Classic period (AD 250-950). Complex questions regarding political centralization, economic change, and the role of politics and economics in the rise and collapse of the civilization have been examined and reexamined from a variety of perspectives. Antonia Foias and Kitty Emery have assembled a broad collection of essays all focused on a single polity, that of Motul…
Pottery politics
Cultural Evolution
Cultural Evolution: Contemporary Viewpoints. Gary M. Feinman and Linda Manzanilla, eds. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000. 267 pp
Changing Ceramic Production and Exchange in the Petexbatun Region, Guatemala
The typological, modal, and chemical analyses of the pottery from the Petexbatun region of southwestern Peten, Guatemala, are used to establish a regional ceramic chronology and to assess three theories used to explain the Classic Maya collapse of the ninth and tenth centuriesa.d.The three explanations are based on: (1) foreign invasion; (2) commercialization; and (3) internal warfare. Each of these theories suggests different changes in the regi…
Changing Ceramic Production and Exchange in the Petexbatun Region, Guatemala
The typological, modal, and chemical analyses of the pottery from the Petexbatun region of southwestern Peten, Guatemala, are used to establish a regional ceramic chronology and to assess three theories used to explain the Classic Maya collapse of the ninth and tenth centuriesa.d.The three explanations are based on: (1) foreign invasion; (2) commercialization; and (3) internal warfare. Each of these theories suggests different changes in the regi…
Ancient Maya Political Dynamics
This book is meant to show how archaeologists worldwide understand and reconstruct ancient political systems, and more specifically, how Maya archaeologists have reconstructed political power, institutions, and dynamics among ancient Maya states during the Classic period in the first millennium A.D. The book engages with the theoretical literature in political anthropology, the debates and history of how archaeologists have reconstructed ancient …
Cultural Evolution
Cultural Evolution: Contemporary Viewpoints. Gary M. Feinman and Linda Manzanilla, eds. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000. 267 pp
Changing Ceramic Production and Exchange in the Petexbatun Region, Guatemala
The typological, modal, and chemical analyses of the pottery from the Petexbatun region of southwestern Peten, Guatemala, are used to establish a regional ceramic chronology and to assess three theories used to explain the Classic Maya collapse of the ninth and tenth centuriesa.d.The three explanations are based on: (1) foreign invasion; (2) commercialization; and (3) internal warfare. Each of these theories suggests different changes in the regi…
Cultural Evolution
Cultural Evolution: Contemporary Viewpoints. Gary M. Feinman and Linda Manzanilla, eds. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000. 267 pp
Pottery politics
Motul de San José
This edited volume considers the interrelationships between political and economic power during the apogee of Maya civilization in the first millennium A.D. at the center of Motul de San José in northern Guatemala. Multiple perspectives are brought to bear on the issues of political power among the Classic Maya. Epigraphers and art historians reconstruct the royal history of this center during the Late Classic from inscriptions on stone monuments…
Motul de San José
"Scholars have long debated the nature of Maya political organization during the Classic period (AD 250-950). Complex questions regarding political centralization, economic change, and the role of politics and economics in the rise and collapse of the civilization have been examined and reexamined from a variety of perspectives. Antonia Foias and Kitty Emery have assembled a broad collection of essays all focused on a single polity, that of Motul…
Ancient Maya Political Dynamics
This book is meant to show how archaeologists worldwide understand and reconstruct ancient political systems, and more specifically, how Maya archaeologists have reconstructed political power, institutions, and dynamics among ancient Maya states during the Classic period in the first millennium A.D. The book engages with the theoretical literature in political anthropology, the debates and history of how archaeologists have reconstructed ancient …
Les ordures de la maisonnée
Que peuvent nous apprendre les pratiques de rejet sur les maisonnées de la période maya classique ? La plupart des analyses archéologiques des dépotoirs se sont concentrées sur l’analyse du contenu : description, classement et comparaison de ce que contenaient les dépotoirs, afin de documenter les populations qui ont laissé de tels vestiges. L’étude des pratiques concrètes par lesquelles on se débarrasse des détritus peut encore nous en apprendre…
Household Garbage
What can the practices of discard tell us about Classic period Maya households? Most archaeological analyses of middens are concerned with an analysis of content: describing, classifying, and comparing midden contents to tell us about the people who left such remains. Yet much can be learned about households from studying the actual practices of getting rid of trash. This paper documents midden patterns from the Classic period Maya site of Motul …
The Earliest Maya Farmers of Peten
The origins and cultural affiliations of the first sedentary agricultural and pottery-producing communities in the southern Maya lowlands remain hotly debated. Here, we describe the discovery of a new early farming settlement at the small site of Buenavista-Nuevo San José on Lake Peten Itza in northern Guatemala. Evidence for a pre-Mamom occupation (1000–700 BC) at this site was found in the deepest fill layers overlying bedrock, including potter…
Karen Bassie-Sweet, Maya Gods of War
Maya Gods of War. 2021. By Karen Bassie-Sweet. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado. 340pp. $82 (hardcover), Open Access (e-book)
Archaeology (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Maya (7 works) · History (6 works) · Latin American history and culture (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works)