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Books by Gyles Iannone
  | | Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings(Reprint) (Maya Studies) by Gyles Iannone, Brett A. Houk, Sonja A. Schwake Paperback, 378 Pages, Published 2018 by University Press Of Florida ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-6405-5, ISBN: 0-8130-6405-8 "Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and destruction of monuments and even violent death. This is the first comprehensive volume to focus on the varied responses to the failure of Classic period dynasties in the southern lowlands. The contributors offer new insights into the Maya "collapse," evaluating the trope of the scapegoat king ..." |
 | | The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context(1st Edition) Case Studies in Resilience and Vulnerability by Gyles Iannone Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2014 by University Press Of Colorado ISBN-13: 978-1-60732-279-5, ISBN: 1-60732-279-X "In "The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, " contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic collapses, including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750 1050), were not caused solely by climate change related droughts but by a combination of other social, political, and environmental factors. New and senior scholars of archaeology and en ..." |
 | | Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings (Maya Studies) by Gyles Iannone, Brett A. Houk, Sonja A. Schwake, Houk &. Schwake Iannone Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2016 by University Press Of Florida ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-6275-4, ISBN: 0-8130-6275-6 "“A valuable contribution to our knowledge of the events surrounding the collapse of the ancient Maya in the Late and Terminal Classic periods, particularly the death of kings and the failure of the institution of divine kingship.”—Lisa LeCount, coeditor of Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and Its Hinterlands “A comprehensive look at the concept of Maya kingship as well as new insights into the Maya collapse—a must read fo ..." |
 | | Perspectives on Ancient Maya Rural Complexity(1st Edition) (Monographs) by Gyles Iannone, Samuel V. Connell Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2003 by Cotsen Institute Of Archaeology Press ISBN-13: 978-1-931745-06-2, ISBN: 1-931745-06-4 "Settlement archaeology in the Maya area has focused much of its attention on the polar extremes of the settlement continuum. As a result of this urban/rural bias, a whole range of complex rural settlements remain underexplored. The chapters in this volume highlight the variable quality of these ""middle level settlements."" The authors also grapple with the possible social implications of such diversity. The contrasting opinions that re ..." |
 | | Beyond Collapse(1st Edition) Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex Societies (Visiting Scholar Conference ... Investigations Occasional Paper No. 42) by Ronald K. Faulseit, J. Heath Anderson, Christina Conlee, Thomas Emerson, Kristin Hedman, Gary Feinman, Julie Hoggarth, Scott Hutson, Gyles Iannone, T. R. Kidder, Michael Loughlin, Katie Lantzas, Maureen Meyers, Christopher Pool, Christopher Rodning, Jakob Sedig, Nicola Sharratt, Rebecca Storey, Glenn Storey, Joseph Tainter, Victor Thompson, Andrea Torvinen, Kari Zobler, Richard Sutter, Stacy Dunn, Jerry Ek, Geoff Mccafferty, Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown, David Small Paperback, 552 Pages, Published 2015 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-3399-8, ISBN: 0-8093-3399-6 "The Maya. The Romans. The great dynasties of ancient China. It is generally believed that these once mighty empires eventually crumbled and disappeared. A recent trend in archaeology, however, focusing on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful societies has found social resilience and transformation instead of collapse. In Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation ..." |
 | | The Realm Below(1st Edition) Speleoarchaeological Investigations in the Macal River Valley, Belize by Jaime Awe, Christophe Helmke, Shawn Morton, Gyles Iannone, Dorie Reents-Budet, Ronald Bishop Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2019 by Precolumbia Mesoweb Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9859317-9-7, ISBN: 0-9859317-9-5 "The impression given by painted pottery, murals, and carved monuments in the Maya area is of a highly scheduled existence, marked by periodic and prescribed acts and ritual obligations, especially among the rulers and elites of antiquity. This relationship was mapped out in the very structure of their ancient cities, with wide processional ways leading to soaring pyramidal structures and temples that served as stages for the politico-re ..." |
 | | Maya Archaeology 3(1st Edition) Featuring the Grolier Codex by Stephen Houston, Michael Coe, Mary Miller, Karl Taube, Simon Martin, Takeshi Inomata, Daniela Triadan, Christophe Helmke, Jaime Awe, Shawn Morton, Gyles Iannone, Kenichiro Tsukamoto, Octavio Esparza, Arnoldo Gonzalez, Joshua Balcells, Mary Jane Acuña, Joel Skidmore, Charles Golden, Chip Breitwieser, Charles W. Golden Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Precolumbia Mesoweb Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9859317-0-4, ISBN: 0-9859317-0-1 "Continuing in the tradition of the Maya Archaeology series from Precolumbia Mesoweb Press, this volume offers chapters by leading authorities on discoveries and research in the field of Maya archaeology. Topics include a royal tomb at Palenque, an early Maya ceremonial center at Ceibal, a hieroglyphic stairway at El Palmar recording a pilgrimage to distant Copan, and breakthrough insights into Maya divinity. The volume is accompanied by ..." |
 | | The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context Case Studies in Resilience and Vulnerability by Gyles Iannone 448 Pages, Published 2014 by University Press Of Colorado ISBN-13: 978-1-60732-280-1, ISBN: 1-60732-280-3 "Revealingly, when Paul Farmer was asked how to solve the Haitian problem, he replied that jobs should be created so that people had money and could afford to buy fuel and not deforest the landscape. This politically correct reply conveniently glosses over the fact that the Haitian people, through their fecundity, are heavily implicated in their own plight (see Table 15.1). Such an assessment is today politically incorrect (and, eve ..." |
 | | The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context Case Studies in Resilience and Vulnerability by Gyles Iannone 448 Pages, Published 2013 by University Press Of Colorado ISBN-13: 978-1-4920-1323-5, ISBN: 1-4920-1323-4 "Archaeology symposium from which this volume is derived. The goal of this chapter is to briefly contextualize the various droughts in relation to the archaeologically defined periods of “collapse” that punctuated the long-term sequence of ancient Maya sociocultural development. This contextualization will set the stage for the more detailed assessments provided in the various case studies. Before discussing the various sociocultura ..." |
 | | Perspectives on Ancient Maya Rural Complexity by Samuel V. Connell, Gyles Iannone 160 Pages, Published 2003 by Isd Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-938770-80-7, ISBN: 1-938770-80-3 "Banton, R.E., G.M. Feinman, S.A. Kowalcwski, and P.N. Peregrine 1995 A dual- processual theory for the evolution of Mesoamerican civilization. ... Publications in Anthropology 23, New York: Viking Fund. ... American Anthropologist 99.602– 648. ... 1991 Preliminary spatial analysis of the site core of Cahai Pech, Belize and its implications for lowland Maya social organization. ... Occasional Publication 3. ... Priests, peasants, and ..." |
 | | Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings by Gyles Iannone, Brett A. Houk, Sonja A. Schwake 383 Pages, Published 2018 by University Press Of Florida ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-6380-5, ISBN: 0-8130-6380-9 "This is the first comprehensive volume to focus on the varied responses to the failure of Classic period dynasties in the southern lowlands." |