How the Maya Built Their World: Energeti

Klappentext The social structures and engineering that enabled the Maya to build their massive buildings. "Abrams is proposing what I think is a very useful and potentially powerful tool; personally, I would even hope it becomes a standard archaeological analysis for ancient architecture, with concomitant development of site-specific analogues." - Wendy Ashmore, associate professor of anthropology, University of Pennsylvania Zusammenfassung Explicates author's theory of architectural energetics, which involves translating structures into volumes of raw and manufactured materials that are then multiplied by the time required for their production and assembly to determine the labor costs of past construction efforts. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Tables Preface 1. Introduction 2. Background to Architectural Energetics at Copan 3. Maya Architectural Forms 4. The Energetics of Construction 5. Costs and the Construction Process 6. Energetics and the Hierarchy of Social Power 7. The Organization of Construction Labor 8. Architecture and Economics 9. Conclusions Appendix A. Costs per Task per Structure Appendix B. Reuse Savings References Index

Product details

• Authors: Elliot M. Abrams
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2009
• EAN: 9780292704626
• ISBN: 978-0-292-70462-6
• Series: University of Texas Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches