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Rome and the Classic Maya: Comparing the Slow Collapse of Civilizations

by Rebecca Storey
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781629584577
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
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  • Pages: 296
  • Original Price: GBP 175.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 704 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Archaeology and Ancient / Rome

This volume compares two of the most famous cases of civilizational collapse, that of the Roman Empire and the Classic Maya world. First examining the concept of collapse, and how it has been utilized in the historical, archaeological and anthropological study of past complex societies, Storey and Storey draw on extensive archaeological evidence to consider the ultimate failure of the institutions, infrastructure and material culture of both of these complex cultures.

Detailing the relevant economic, political, social and environmental factors behind these notable falls, Rome and the Classic Maya contends that a phenomenon of "slow collapse" has repeatedly occurred in the course of human history: complex civilizations are shown to eventually come to an end and give way to new cultures. Through their analysis of these two ancient case studies, the authors also present intriguing parallels to the modern world and offer potential lessons for the future.

Rebecca Storey is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Houston, who has been teaching anthropology for 30 years. Trained in both biological anthropology and archaeology, she received her Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University. Her research has specialized on the Precolumbian civilizations of Teotihuacan and the Classic-period Maya sites of K'axob and Copan, especially on the skeletal remains that provide information about health and lifestyle not available from other kinds of archaeological data. The Classic Maya collapse is an important focus of her research, as both K'axob and Copan were abandoned as part of this phenomenon. Glenn Reed Storey is Associate Professor of Classics and Anthropology at the University of Iowa. He has degrees from Columbia University and Oxford University and a doctorate from Penn State University in anthropology. He teaches a wide range of courses, ranging from Beginning Classical Greek to Anthropology and Contemporary World Problems. His research has focused on the Roman economy and demography, while carrying out excavations at the site of Gangivecchio, a Greco-Roman site in Sicily, in tandem with investigations using ground penetrating radar.

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