caa a22 4500 38631800X CHVBK 20180307111614.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0003598X00073646 doi S0003598X00073646 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0003598X00073646 Fash William L. Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA A new look at Maya statecraft from Copan, Honduras [Elektronische Daten] [William L. Fash] The revelations in the study of the Ancient Maya made possible by the revolution in hieroglyphic decipherment have not occurred in isolation. Archaeological investigations within the last three decades have produced a much broader vision of Maya society during the Classic Period than previously possible. Particularly, the study of settlement patterns in conjunction with environmental studies has opened new vistas onto the size and organization of the populations which supported the rulers in their civic-ceremonial centres (Ashmore 1981; Culbert & Rice n.d.). The challenge for the present, and future, is to combine the archaeological record with the studies of inscriptions and politico-religious symbolism, to build a more complete and incisive reconstruction of the past. Where the two records are particularly clear and abundant, we may also aspire to explaining the past. Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988 Antiquity Cambridge University Press 62/234(1988-03), 157-169 0003-598X 62:234<157 1988 62 AQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00073646 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00073646 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fash William L. Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Antiquity Cambridge University Press 62/234(1988-03), 157-169 0003-598X 62:234<157 1988 62 AQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge