The Life-Giving Stone
Ethnoarchaeology of Maya Metates
Will be published approx. on 15. May 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-8165-2909-4 (ISBN)
Description
Provides a thought-provoking ethnoarchaeological account of metate and mano manufacture, marketing, and use among Guatemalan Maya for whom these stone implements are still essential equipment in everyday life and diet.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Tucson
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
51 black and white photographs, 7 maps, 1 table
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
264 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8165-2909-4 (9780816529094)
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Person
Michael T. Searcy is an archaeologist for the Office of Public Archaeology at Brigham Young University and has worked on a number of archaeological projects in Utah, Mexico, and Guatemala. Searcy also has seven years' experience in ethnographic documentary filmmaking. His film Starvation Doctrine: The Plight of Illegal Immigrants in America won the Best Oklahoma Short Film award in 2009.