Elliot M Abrams
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 150584 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Elliot M Abrams |
| PRENOMES | Elliot M |
| SOBRENOME | Abrams |
| ASSINATURA | ABRAMS E M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ohio University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Architectural Energetics in Archaeology
Massive assumptions and moundbuilders
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines specific cases from Vietnam and South Korea where recent fieldwork at major settlements provides a basis for producing energetic models to evaluate hypotheses related to incipient states. It also examines the construction of unique circular ceremonial temples in the Tequila Valleys region of Jalisco, Mexico, during the L…
Environmental Change Since the Woodland Period in the Mid-Ohio Valley
Palynological analyses of sediment cores from Patton Bog in southeastern Ohio recorded environmental changes from ca. 1000 B.C. to the present, representing the first pollen core analyzed from this region. Pollen data show an increase in prairie species, implying periodic expansion of grassland environments during the Woodland period coeval with the initial collection and eventual domestication of Eastern Agricultural Complex seeds. It is suggest…
Chemical composition of architectural plaster at the Classic Maya kingdom of Piedras Negras, Guatemala
Hopewell Archaeology
The Taber Well Site (33HO611)
From ca. 1500 B.C. through A.D. 300, small indigenous communities in southeastern Ohio incrementally increased their population size, adopted a more sedentary lifeway within recognized territories, formalized the burial of select individuals in mounds, and supplemented their hunting and gathering economy with gardening. Data from the Taber Well site (33HO611) are presented, from which we infer that surplus lithic production was taking place at th…
An essay on energetics
The authors describe an ingenious Aztec form of irrigated field system and assess its costs and benefits. Swamps were reclaimed by digging channels by hand and the excavated soil used to construct embanked fields (chinampas). The banks were anchored by planted trees and the trees, the crops and the water channels created a sheltered space which itself raised the temperature and increased productivity. The construction of the whole system took 25 …
Architectural Energetics, Ancient Monuments, and Operations Management
A Late Classic lime-plaster kiln from the Maya centre of Copan, Honduras
Under and behind the splendours of Maya ceremonial buildings are the craft skills of the artisans who put them up. A first find of a lime-plaster kiln, from Copan in Honduras, illuminates one of those technologies, the burning of lime in a closed oven rather than on an open-air pyre
How the Maya Built Their World
This succinct volume introduces a materialist methodology for the energetic analysis of residential architecture. Although the author clearly intends "architectural energetics" to have broad cross-cultural utility, this exploratory application is confined to the pre-Hispanic Maya center of Copan, Honduras, where a comparatively large sample of 46 residences has been excavated. Through a liberal use of ethnographiC analogy (supplemented with exper…
A Model of Fluctuating Labor Value and the Establishment of State Power
Assessment of the nature of intrasocietal relationships in the context of the origin of state-level power is a critical area of study within anthropological archaeology. A well-established model of such emergent political relations (Wittfogel 1957) posits that differential access to land, coupled with intensification of agriculture, places common farmers in a position of inferiority, and thus subjects them to exploitation by the elite controllers…
How the Maya Built Their World
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 a…
The causes and consequences of deforestation among the prehistoric Maya
Economic Specialization and Construction Personnel in Classic Period Copan, Honduras
The degree of development of specialist positions associated with large-scale construction at the Maya site of Copan, Honduras, is evaluated. The methodology used involves the quantification of energy, in human labor, which was expended in the construction of Str. 10L-22, a major palace in the Main Center of Copan. The results suggest that few specialists were required, and that the vast majority of construction personnel were unspecialized consc…
An Elite Compound at Copan, Honduras
Although the Lowland Maya site of Copan, in western Honduras, has been the focus of archaeological research for a century, most excavations have been centered on the ruins of the Main Group. A major objective of the current Copan Archaeological Project is the complete excavation of a series of archaeological complexes in the densely settled Sepultura residential zone NE of the Main Group. In 1980–1981 an impressive compound, Plaza A, was largely …
Economic Specialization and Construction Personnel in Classic Period Copan, Honduras
The degree of development of specialist positions associated with large-scale construction at the Maya site of Copan, Honduras, is evaluated. The methodology used involves the quantification of energy, in human labor, which was expended in the construction of Str. 10L-22, a major palace in the Main Center of Copan. The results suggest that few specialists were required, and that the vast majority of construction personnel were unspecialized consc…
Hopewell Archaeology
A Model of Fluctuating Labor Value and the Establishment of State Power
Assessment of the nature of intrasocietal relationships in the context of the origin of state-level power is a critical area of study within anthropological archaeology. A well-established model of such emergent political relations (Wittfogel 1957) posits that differential access to land, coupled with intensification of agriculture, places common farmers in a position of inferiority, and thus subjects them to exploitation by the elite controllers…
An essay on energetics
The authors describe an ingenious Aztec form of irrigated field system and assess its costs and benefits. Swamps were reclaimed by digging channels by hand and the excavated soil used to construct embanked fields (chinampas). The banks were anchored by planted trees and the trees, the crops and the water channels created a sheltered space which itself raised the temperature and increased productivity. The construction of the whole system took 25 …
A Late Classic lime-plaster kiln from the Maya centre of Copan, Honduras
Under and behind the splendours of Maya ceremonial buildings are the craft skills of the artisans who put them up. A first find of a lime-plaster kiln, from Copan in Honduras, illuminates one of those technologies, the burning of lime in a closed oven rather than on an open-air pyre
An Elite Compound at Copan, Honduras
Although the Lowland Maya site of Copan, in western Honduras, has been the focus of archaeological research for a century, most excavations have been centered on the ruins of the Main Group. A major objective of the current Copan Archaeological Project is the complete excavation of a series of archaeological complexes in the densely settled Sepultura residential zone NE of the Main Group. In 1980–1981 an impressive compound, Plaza A, was largely …
Chemical composition of architectural plaster at the Classic Maya kingdom of Piedras Negras, Guatemala
Environmental Change Since the Woodland Period in the Mid-Ohio Valley
Palynological analyses of sediment cores from Patton Bog in southeastern Ohio recorded environmental changes from ca. 1000 B.C. to the present, representing the first pollen core analyzed from this region. Pollen data show an increase in prairie species, implying periodic expansion of grassland environments during the Woodland period coeval with the initial collection and eventual domestication of Eastern Agricultural Complex seeds. It is suggest…
The Taber Well Site (33HO611)
From ca. 1500 B.C. through A.D. 300, small indigenous communities in southeastern Ohio incrementally increased their population size, adopted a more sedentary lifeway within recognized territories, formalized the burial of select individuals in mounds, and supplemented their hunting and gathering economy with gardening. Data from the Taber Well site (33HO611) are presented, from which we infer that surplus lithic production was taking place at th…
An Elite Compound at Copan, Honduras
Although the Lowland Maya site of Copan, in western Honduras, has been the focus of archaeological research for a century, most excavations have been centered on the ruins of the Main Group. A major objective of the current Copan Archaeological Project is the complete excavation of a series of archaeological complexes in the densely settled Sepultura residential zone NE of the Main Group. In 1980–1981 an impressive compound, Plaza A, was largely …
Economic Specialization and Construction Personnel in Classic Period Copan, Honduras
The degree of development of specialist positions associated with large-scale construction at the Maya site of Copan, Honduras, is evaluated. The methodology used involves the quantification of energy, in human labor, which was expended in the construction of Str. 10L-22, a major palace in the Main Center of Copan. The results suggest that few specialists were required, and that the vast majority of construction personnel were unspecialized consc…
The causes and consequences of deforestation among the prehistoric Maya
How the Maya Built Their World
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 a…
A Model of Fluctuating Labor Value and the Establishment of State Power
Assessment of the nature of intrasocietal relationships in the context of the origin of state-level power is a critical area of study within anthropological archaeology. A well-established model of such emergent political relations (Wittfogel 1957) posits that differential access to land, coupled with intensification of agriculture, places common farmers in a position of inferiority, and thus subjects them to exploitation by the elite controllers…
A Late Classic lime-plaster kiln from the Maya centre of Copan, Honduras
Under and behind the splendours of Maya ceremonial buildings are the craft skills of the artisans who put them up. A first find of a lime-plaster kiln, from Copan in Honduras, illuminates one of those technologies, the burning of lime in a closed oven rather than on an open-air pyre
How the Maya Built Their World
This succinct volume introduces a materialist methodology for the energetic analysis of residential architecture. Although the author clearly intends "architectural energetics" to have broad cross-cultural utility, this exploratory application is confined to the pre-Hispanic Maya center of Copan, Honduras, where a comparatively large sample of 46 residences has been excavated. Through a liberal use of ethnographiC analogy (supplemented with exper…
Architectural Energetics, Ancient Monuments, and Operations Management
An essay on energetics
The authors describe an ingenious Aztec form of irrigated field system and assess its costs and benefits. Swamps were reclaimed by digging channels by hand and the excavated soil used to construct embanked fields (chinampas). The banks were anchored by planted trees and the trees, the crops and the water channels created a sheltered space which itself raised the temperature and increased productivity. The construction of the whole system took 25 …
The Taber Well Site (33HO611)
From ca. 1500 B.C. through A.D. 300, small indigenous communities in southeastern Ohio incrementally increased their population size, adopted a more sedentary lifeway within recognized territories, formalized the burial of select individuals in mounds, and supplemented their hunting and gathering economy with gardening. Data from the Taber Well site (33HO611) are presented, from which we infer that surplus lithic production was taking place at th…
Hopewell Archaeology
Chemical composition of architectural plaster at the Classic Maya kingdom of Piedras Negras, Guatemala
Environmental Change Since the Woodland Period in the Mid-Ohio Valley
Palynological analyses of sediment cores from Patton Bog in southeastern Ohio recorded environmental changes from ca. 1000 B.C. to the present, representing the first pollen core analyzed from this region. Pollen data show an increase in prairie species, implying periodic expansion of grassland environments during the Woodland period coeval with the initial collection and eventual domestication of Eastern Agricultural Complex seeds. It is suggest…
Architectural Energetics in Archaeology
Massive assumptions and moundbuilders
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines specific cases from Vietnam and South Korea where recent fieldwork at major settlements provides a basis for producing energetic models to evaluate hypotheses related to incipient states. It also examines the construction of unique circular ceremonial temples in the Tequila Valleys region of Jalisco, Mexico, during the L…
Archaeology (14 obras) · Geography (12 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 obras) · Maya (8 obras) · Ecology (6 obras) · Ecology (5 obras) · Latin American history and culture (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Art (4 obras)