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Chan An Ancient Maya Farming Community
No full textThe farming community of Chan thrived for over twenty centuries, surpassing the longevity of many larger Maya urban centers. Between 800 BC and 1200 AD it was a major food production center, and this collection of essays reveals the important role played by Maya farmers in the development of ancient Maya society. Chan offers a synthesis of compelling and groundbreaking discoveries gathered over ten years of research at this one archaeological site in Belize. The contributors develop three central themes, which structure the book. They examine how sustainable farming practices maintained the surrounding forest, allowing the community to exist for two millennia. They trace the origins of elite Maya state religion to the complex religious belief system developed in small communities such as Chan. Finally, they describe how the group-focused political strategies employed by local leaders differed from the highly hierarchical strategies of the Classic Maya kings in their large cities. In breadth, methodology, and findings, this volume scales new heights in the study of Maya society and culture.Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introducing the Chan Site: Farmers in Complex Societies -- Part 1. Time, Space, and Landscapes -- 2. A Changing Cultural Landscape: Settlement Survey and GIS at Chan -- 3. Ceramics and Chronology at Chan -- 4. Agricultural Practices at Chan: Farming and Political Economy in an Ancient Maya Community -- 5. Agroforestry and Agricultural Production of the Ancient Maya at Chan -- Part 2. Life in a Farming Community Center -- 6. Ritual in a Farming Community -- 7. Nonroyal Governance at Chan's Community Center -- 8. "Empty" Spaces and Public Places: A Microscopic View of Chan's Late Classic West Plaza -- Part 3. Diversity across the Chan Community -- 9. Recognizing Difference in Small-Scale Settings: An Examination of Social Identity Formation at the Northeast Group, Chan -- 10. Organization of Chert Tool Economy during the Late and Terminal Classic Periods at Chan: Preliminary Thoughts Based upon Debitage Analyses -- 11. Limestone Quarrying and Household Organization at Chan -- Part 4. Bodies, Material Culture, and Meaning -- 12. The Chan Community: A Bioarchaeological Perspective -- 13. Creating Community with Shell -- 14. Obsidian Acquisition, Trade, and Regional Interaction at Chan -- 15. Contextualizing Ritual Behavior: Caches, Burials, and Problematical Deposits from Chan's Community Center -- Part 5. Conclusion -- 16. Learning from an Ancient Maya Farming Community -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- YThe farming community of Chan thrived for over twenty centuries, surpassing the longevity of many larger Maya urban centers. Between 800 BC and 1200 AD it was a major food production center, and this collection of essays reveals the important role played by Maya farmers in the development of ancient Maya society. Chan offers a synthesis of compelling and groundbreaking discoveries gathered over ten years of research at this one archaeological site in Belize. The contributors develop three central themes, which structure the book. They examine how sustainable farming practices maintained the surrounding forest, allowing the community to exist for two millennia. They trace the origins of elite Maya state religion to the complex religious belief system developed in small communities such as Chan. Finally, they describe how the group-focused political strategies employed by local leaders differed from the highly hierarchical strategies of the Classic Maya kings in their large cities. In breadth, methodology, and findings, this volume scales new heights in the study of Maya society and culture.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Inauguración del XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan. Zonas Arqueológicas en Contextos Urbanos. <p>XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan.Zonas Arqueológicas en Contextos Urbanos<p>
No full textEl acto inaugural del XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan “Zonas arqueológicas en contextos urbanos”, tuvo lugar el 6 de noviembre de 2018, en la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH). El Simposio fue inaugurado por el Antrop. Diego Prieto Hernández, Director General del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, en compañía de otras autoridades del INAH así como investigadores, docentes, alumnos y público en general.</p
Clausura del XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan. Zonas Arqueológicas en Contextos Urbanos. <p>XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan.Zonas Arqueológicas en Contextos Urbanos<p>
No full textDel 6 al 8 de noviembre de 2018, se llevó a cabo el XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan “Zonas arqueológicas en contextos urbanos”. Durante su desarrollo se contó con un amplio programa de trabajo que incluyó 31 ponencias, cinco conferencias magistrales y nueve sesiones de carteles. Se trató de un evento en el que participaron reconocidos académicos a nivel nacional e internacional en el ámbito de la arqueología; además de que se logró debatir y aportar ideas en un mismo foro acerca de la construcción de soluciones para la problemática de las zonas arqueológicas en contextos urbanos. El acto de clausura se efectuó con la presencia de diversas autoridades del INAH en compañía de investigadores, docentes, alumnos y público en general.</p
Vickers-Chan-7thGraders_Multiplex_Social .zip
No full textThe dataset representing the multiplex social network in a school in Victoria, Australia.
If you use this dataset in your work either for analysis or for visualization, you should acknowledge/cite the following papers:
Representing Classroom Social Structure. Melbourne: Victoria Institute of Secondary Education
M. Vickers and S. Chan, (1981)
The data were collected by Vickers from 29 seventh grade students in a school in Victoria, Australia. Students were asked to nominate their classmates on a number of relations including the following three (layers):
1. Who do you get on with in the class?
2. Who are your best friends in the class?
3. Who would you prefer to work with?
Students 1 through 12 are boys and 13 through 29 are girls.
There are 29 nodes in total, labelled with integer ID between 1 and 29, with 740 connections.
The multiplex is directed and unweighted, stored as edges list in the file
Vickers-Chan-7thGraders_multiplex.edges
with format
layerID nodeID nodeID weight
(Note: all weights are set to 1)
The IDs of all layers are stored in
Vickers-Chan-7thGraders_layers.txt
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Percentage yield of Pra-Sa-Chan-Dang (PSCD) formulation and its plant ingredients.
No full textPercentage yield of Pra-Sa-Chan-Dang (PSCD) formulation and its plant ingredients.</p
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A Christmas Card from Mr and Mrs. Ka Yau Chan and family to Dr. Hector P. Garcia.
No full textA Christmas Card from Mr and Mrs. Ka Yau Chan and family to Dr. Hector P. Garcia
Chan Chan (Peru), aerial view of ruins
No full text"Chan Chan. See G.R., Jan., 1932, p. 13"; "A section of one of the vertical photographs made in the aerial survey of Chan-Chan. The scale of the photograph is about 1:15,000."Johnson-Shippee ExpeditionGrayscaleBox 39 L [14 b1] 53 No. 17,703 to [14 b1] 5501 No. 17,84
Supporting data for Chan et al. (2021) "Heterogeneous nitrate production mechanisms in intense haze events in the North China Plain"
No full textThis dataset includes observational and modeling data in support of the findings in Chan, Y.C., M.J. Evans, P. He, C.D. Holmes, L. Jaegle, P. Kasibhatla, X.-Y. Liu, T. Sherwen, J.A. Thornton, X. Wang, Z. Xie, S. Zhai, and B. Alexander "Heterogeneous nitrate production mechanisms in intense haze events in North China" which was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres in 2021. Scripts for reproducing the published figures and instructions for reproducing model experiments are also included. More details can be found in the data-and-analysis-script.readme.
Professor Becky Alexander ([email protected]) is the corresponding author
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