2006
DOI: 10.1007/s10814-005-9000-1
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New World States and Empires: Politics, Religion, and Urbanism

Abstract: The past decade has seen a veritable explosion in archaeological research on complex societies in Latin America. In 1993, Smith published an overview of research to that date; this article is one of two bringing that summary up to the present. Our first article, New World states and empires: Economic and social organization (Smith and Schreiber, 2005), dealt with issues regarding economic and social organization. The present article tackles political organization and dynamics, religion, urbanism, and settlemen… Show more

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“…The results have important implications for surface archaeology. In their review of the archaeological literature from 1995 to 2005, Michael Smith and Katharina Schreiber [74] state that, "For the Classic Maya, studies of sacred landscapes are dominated by research on caves." Very importantly, they also noted that, "In contrast to the empirically grounded cave research, other work on Classic Maya sacred landscapes is highly speculative in nature" (p. 19).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The results have important implications for surface archaeology. In their review of the archaeological literature from 1995 to 2005, Michael Smith and Katharina Schreiber [74] state that, "For the Classic Maya, studies of sacred landscapes are dominated by research on caves." Very importantly, they also noted that, "In contrast to the empirically grounded cave research, other work on Classic Maya sacred landscapes is highly speculative in nature" (p. 19).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…E. Smith 2002;Smith and Schreiber 2006). However, studies from around the world have called into question the causal relationship between urbanism and the state (McIntosh 2005;Possehl 1998;M.…”
Section: The Emergence Of Urbanismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In contrast, Gasparini pointed to the Incan grid designs of Ollantaytambo, Chucuito, Hatunqolla, and Paucarqolla, all of which predate European contact (1993; see also Gasparini and Margolies 1980). More controversially, he developed a theory that the pre-Columbian grid design of Cholula directly influenced the layout of the nearby Spanish town of Puebla during the sixteenth century (but see Smith and Schreiber 2006).…”
Section: Challenges To Stanislawski's Diffusionist Theory Of the Gridmentioning
confidence: 99%