Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction xiii
6. Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches
7. Beyond Geoarchaeology: Pragmatist Explorations of Alternative Viewscapes in the British Bronze age and Beyond 3
8. Perceptions of Landscapes in Uncertain Times: Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico and the Volcan Baru, Panama 15
9. Specialzation, Social Complexity and Vernacular Architecture: A Cross-Cultural Study of Space Constuction 29
10. Maya Mortuary Spaces as Cosmological Metaphors 37
11. Intrasite Spatial Analysis
12. The Behavioral Ecology of Early Pleistocene Hominids in the Koobi Fora Region, East Turkana Basin, Northern Kenya 49
13. Spatial Models of Intrasettlement Spatial Organization in the Eia of Southern Africa: A view From Ndondondwane on the Central Cattle Pattern 61
14. The Intrasettlement Spatial Structure of Early Neolithic Settlements in Temperate Southeastern Europe: A view from Blagotin, Serbia 69
15. Architectural Complexes
16. The Inhabitation of Rio Viejo's Acropolis 83
17. Who Put the "Haram" in the Mhahram Bilqis? 97
18. Form, Style and Function of Structure 12A, Minanha, Belize 107
19. The Machine in the Ceremonial Centre 115
20. Messages in Stone: Constructing Sociopolitical Inequality in Late Bronze Age Cyprus 123
21. Individual, Household and Community Space in Early Bronze Age Western Anatolia and the Nearby Islands 133
22. Urban Spaces and Cityscapes
23. Body, Boundaries, and "Lived" Urban Space: A Research Model for the Eighth-Century City at Copan, Honduras 143
24. The Symbolic Space of the Ancient Maya Sweatbath 157
25. Space, Place, and the Rise of "Urbanism" in the Canadian Arctic 169
26. Architectural Variability in the Maya Lowlands of the Late Classic Period: A Recent Perspective on Ancient Maya Cultural Diversity 177
27. Maya Readings of Settlement Space 189
28. Spatial Alignments in Maya Architecture 199
29. Archaeological Aproaches to Ancient Maya Geopolitical Borders 205
30. Landscape and Natural Environment
31. Reconstructing Ritual: Some Thoughts on the Location of Petroglyph Groups in the Nasca Valley, Peru 217
32. "What You See is Where You Are": An Examination of Native North American Place Names 227
33. Burials and the Landscapes of Gournia, Crete, in the Bronze Age 233
34. The Origins of Transhumant Pastoralism in Temperate Southeastern Europe 243
35. Colvis Progenitors: From Swan Point, Alaska to Anzick Site, Montana in Less Than A Decade? 253
36. Impacts of Imperialism: Nabataen, Roman, and Byzantine Landscapes in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan 269
37. The Archaelolgy of Transportation
38. Comparing Landscapes of Transportation: Riverine-Oriented and Land-Oriented Systems in the Indus Civilization and the Mughal Empire 281
39. The Life and Times of a British Logging Road in Belize 293
40. Moving Mountains: The Trade and Transport of Rocks and Minerals Within the Greater Indus Valley Region 301
41. Hidden Passage: Graeco-Roman Roads in Egypt's Eastern Desert 315
42. Boats, Bitumen and Bartering: The Use of a Utilitarian Good to Track Movement and Transport in Ancient Exchange Systems 323
43. Textual and Iconographic Approaches
44. Weaving Space: Textile Imagery and Landscape in the Mixtec Codices 333
45. Engendering Roman Spaces 343
46. A Star of Naranjo: The Celestial Presence of God L 355
47. Performing Coatepec: The Raising of the Banners Festival Among the Mexica 371
48. Framework for the Future
49. Archaeology in the New World Order: What We Can Offer the Planet 383
50. Index 397