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Book Synopsis Izapa Relief Carving by : Virginia Grady Smith
Download or read book Izapa Relief Carving written by Virginia Grady Smith and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1984 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the visual traits of Izapa-style monuments to establish a stylistic inventory of visual elements and the rules for their use, and compares other Late Pre-Classic monuments of the Guatemala-Chiapas highlands and Pacific slopes.
Book Synopsis Izapa Sculpture: Album by : V. Garth Norman
Download or read book Izapa Sculpture: Album written by V. Garth Norman and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Izapan-style Art by : Jacinto Quirarte
Download or read book Izapan-style Art written by Jacinto Quirarte and published by Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1973 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :V. Garth Norman Publisher :Provo, Utah : New World Archaeological Foundation, Brigham Young University ISBN 13 : Total Pages :402 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (321 download)
Book Synopsis Izapa Sculpture: Text by : V. Garth Norman
Download or read book Izapa Sculpture: Text written by V. Garth Norman and published by Provo, Utah : New World Archaeological Foundation, Brigham Young University. This book was released on 1976 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Gareth W. Lowe Publisher :Provo, Utah : New World Archaeological Foundation, Brigham Young University ISBN 13 : Total Pages :382 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Izapa written by Gareth W. Lowe and published by Provo, Utah : New World Archaeological Foundation, Brigham Young University. This book was released on 1982 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Izapa Sculpture by : V. Garth Norman
Download or read book Izapa Sculpture written by V. Garth Norman and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Izapa Sculpture by : V. Garth Norman
Download or read book Izapa Sculpture written by V. Garth Norman and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Izapa Sculpture, Part 2 by : V. GARTH. NORMAN
Download or read book Izapa Sculpture, Part 2 written by V. GARTH. NORMAN and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 2 of a complementary two-volume set presents the documentation of Izapa sculpture, including, descriptions, comparative data, and suggested interpretive possibilities. This publication is companion to the Izapa Sculpture, Part 1: Album. Published by New World Archaeological Foundation.
Download or read book Izapa Sculpture written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ritual and Power in Stone by : Julia Guernsey
Download or read book Ritual and Power in Stone written by Julia Guernsey and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Mesoamerican city of Izapa in Chiapas, Mexico, is renowned for its extensive collection of elaborate stone stelae and altars, which were carved during the Late Preclassic period (300 BC-AD 250). Many of these monuments depict kings garbed in the costume and persona of a bird, a well-known avian deity who had great significance for the Maya and other cultures in adjacent regions. This Izapan style of carving and kingly representation appears at numerous sites across the Pacific slope and piedmont of Mexico and Guatemala, making it possible to trace political and economic corridors of communication during the Late Preclassic period. In this book, Julia Guernsey offers a masterful art historical analysis of the Izapan style monuments and their integral role in developing and communicating the institution of divine kingship. She looks specifically at how rulers expressed political authority by erecting monuments that recorded their performance of rituals in which they communicated with the supernatural realm in the persona of the avian deity. She also considers how rulers used the monuments to structure their built environment and create spaces for ritual and politically charged performances. Setting her discussion in a broader context, Guernsey also considers how the Izapan style monuments helped to motivate and structure some of the dramatic, pan-regional developments of the Late Preclassic period, including the forging of a codified language of divine kingship. This pioneering investigation, which links monumental art to the matrices of political, economic, and supernatural exchange, offers an important new understanding of a region, time period, and group of monuments that played a key role in the history of Mesoamerica and continue to intrigue scholars within the field of Mesoamerican studies.
Book Synopsis Sculpture and Social Dynamics in Preclassic Mesoamerica by : Julia Guernsey
Download or read book Sculpture and Social Dynamics in Preclassic Mesoamerica written by Julia Guernsey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity. Julia Guernsey situates the origins and evolution of monumental stone sculpture within a broader social and political context and demonstrates the role that such sculpture played in creating and institutionalizing social hierarchies. This book focuses specifically on an enigmatic type of public, monumental sculpture known as the "potbelly" that traces its antecedents to earlier, small domestic ritual objects and ceramic figurines. The cessation of domestic rituals involving ceramic figurines along the Pacific slope coincided not only with the creation of the first monumental potbelly sculptures, but with the rise of the first state-level societies in Mesoamerica by the advent of the Late Preclassic period. The potbellies became central to the physical representation of new forms of social identity and expressions of political authority during this time of dramatic change.
Book Synopsis Stela 5, Izapa, Chiapas, Mexico by : M. Wells Jakeman
Download or read book Stela 5, Izapa, Chiapas, Mexico written by M. Wells Jakeman and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Archaeological Guide to Central and Southern Mexico by :
Download or read book An Archaeological Guide to Central and Southern Mexico written by and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visitor's guide to the ancient Maya cities of Mexico provides photos, descriptions, and up-to-date tourist information on seventy archaeological sites and sixty museums, detailing the art, architecture, and history of each.
Book Synopsis Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America by : Susan Toby Evans
Download or read book Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America written by Susan Toby Evans and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference is devoted to the pre-Columbian archaeology of the Mesoamerican culture area, one of the six cradles of early civilization. It features in-depth articles on the major cultural areas of ancient Mexico and Central America; coverage of important sites, including the world-renowned discoveries as well as many lesser-known locations; articles on day-to-day life of ancient peoples in these regions; and several bandw regional and site maps and photographs. Entries are arranged alphabetically and cover introductory archaeological facts (flora, fauna, human growth and development, nonorganic resources), chronologies of various periods (Paleoindian, Archaic, Formative, Classic and Postclassic, and Colonial), cultural features, Maya, regional summaries, research methods and resources, ethnohistorical methods and sources, and scholars and research history. Edited by archaeologists Evans and Webster, both of whom are associated with Pennsylvania State University. c. Book News Inc.
Download or read book Izapa written by Darlena K. Bugbee and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Maya Calendar Origins by : Prudence M. Rice
Download or read book Maya Calendar Origins written by Prudence M. Rice and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos, Prudence M. Rice proposed a new model of Maya political organization in which geopolitical seats of power rotated according to a 256-year calendar cycle known as the May. This fundamental connection between timekeeping and Maya political organization sparked Rice's interest in the origins of the two major calendars used by the ancient lowland Maya, one 260 days long, and the other having 365 days. In Maya Calendar Origins, she presents a provocative new thesis about the origins and development of the calendrical system. Integrating data from anthropology, archaeology, art history, astronomy, ethnohistory, myth, and linguistics, Rice argues that the Maya calendars developed about a millennium earlier than commonly thought, around 1200 BC, as an outgrowth of observations of the natural phenomena that scheduled the movements of late Archaic hunter-gatherer-collectors throughout what became Mesoamerica. She asserts that an understanding of the cycles of weather and celestial movements became the basis of power for early rulers, who could thereby claim "control" over supernatural cosmic forces. Rice shows how time became materialized—transformed into status objects such as monuments that encoded calendrical or temporal concerns—as well as politicized, becoming the foundation for societal order, political legitimization, and wealth. Rice's research also sheds new light on the origins of the Popol Vuh, which, Rice believes, encodes the history of the development of the Mesoamerican calendars. She also explores the connections between the Maya and early Olmec and Izapan cultures in the Isthmian region, who shared with the Maya the cosmovision and ideology incorporated into the calendrical systems.
Book Synopsis Travels in the Maya World by : Carol Miller
Download or read book Travels in the Maya World written by Carol Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-08-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a guidebook, nor an illustrated manual, nor an academic resolution of the mystery of the Mayas. "Travels in the Maya World", instead, is lively, evocative, readable and funny. The descriptions are rich, full of color, flavor and texture, at the same time enveloped in history, based on keen observation, with a genuine love for the subject and its setting. Both a companion piece to a Maya Land trip and level-headed insight into the background of the culture, this book is well-informed, with often disturbing revelations: on the ecological drain on the habitat, on the social conflicts in the area, on problems and patterns inherited as a result of hundreds of years, consequences, really, of the use and misuse of the land and its people. A book as valuable as it is delightful.
