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Maya Ceremonial Specialization

Author : April Kay Sievert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maya Ceremonial Specialization written by April Kay Sievert and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly visible architecture, sculpture and painting meant Maya religion was the focus for much early research and speculation on Mayan civilization. Subtitled Lithic Tools from the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza, Yucatan' this study evaluates postclassic Maya ceremonialism and addresses three problems in Maya archaeology: assumptions concerning Maya ritual assemblages; the characteristics denoting ceremonial artifacts; the linking of potential indicators of ceremonial functions for stone tools to the purposes for which ceremonies were enacted. Results from this analysis are used to broaden our conception of ritual performance beyond what is seen in Mayan art and architecture.

Stone Tools

Author : George H. Odell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489901736
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Stone Tools written by George H. Odell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lithic analysts have been criticized for being atheoretical in their approach, or at least for not contributing to building archaeological theory. This volume redresses that balance. In Stone Tools, renowned lithic analysts employ explicitly theoretical constructs to explore the archaeological record and use the lithic database to establish its points. Chapters discuss curation, design theory, replacement of stone with metal, piece refitting, and projectile point style.

Handbook of Latin American Studies

Author : Dolores Moyano Martin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292752115
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (521 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Latin American Studies by : Dolores Moyano Martin

Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies written by Dolores Moyano Martin and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Stuides, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Dolores Moyano Martin, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 1977, and P. Sue Mundell has been assistant editor since 1994. The subject categories for Volume 55 are as follows: Anthropology (including Archaeology and Ethnology) Economics Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences Geography Government and Politics International Relations Sociology

The Birth of a Universe: The Maya Science of Pregnancy

Author : Apab'yan Tew
Publisher : Jade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781949299090
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of a Universe: The Maya Science of Pregnancy written by Apab'yan Tew and published by Jade Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So begins The Birth of a Universe, a profound exegesis by Apabyan Tew, a K'iche Maya midwife and daykeeper. We are bound to the ancient 260-day Maya calendar just as we are bound to the planets that gave birth to that divinatory calendar, our conception, growth, and destiny guided by nawales, the spirits of the days. This system, where everything in intertwined and shapes the nature of the soul and consciousness, is the essence of Maya science. Westerners may divide indigenous science into various disciplines such as physics and astronomy. The vital details of the parents' circumstances and emotions at the moment of conception some would call psychology, a psychology that takes into account every intense mood and feeling-the very atmosphere-from the sexual act to the miraculous birth of the child. Others would call the daykeeper's acute analysis of consciousness, spirit, gender, and material status a new (though age-old) philosophy. Like all well-wrought philosophies, this one is intricate and complex. In fact, it reflects a rational world grounded in earth and sky, basic human emotions and urges, as well as invisible forces.This wise, sometimes esoteric volume is an antidote to chaos, presenting a Unified Theory of Birth that opens a pathway to the fates and to the eternal.

Written in Stone

Author : P. Nick Kardulias
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739105368
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Written in Stone written by P. Nick Kardulias and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in Stone: The Multiple Dimensions of Lithic Analysis demonstrates the vitality of contemporary lithics analysis by examining material from a variety of geographical locations. This edited collection is primarily concerned with the link between craft production and social complexity, the nature of trade, and the delineation of settlement patterns and manipulation of landscape. While deconstructing the present to reconstruct the past, each chapter incorporates a technological dimension shaped by the type of analysis utilized. Methods include microwear analysis, which adds significant understanding of stone tool function, to the identification of obsidian sources, which illustrates the potential of lithic provenance studies for reconstructing trade. This book verifies and expands on the notion that lithics play an integral role in our understanding of past societies at all levels of complexity, from Paleolithic hunter-gatherers to archaic states.

Specialization, Exchange and Complex Societies

Author : Elizabeth M. Brumfiel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521321181
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Specialization, Exchange and Complex Societies written by Elizabeth M. Brumfiel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a comparative study of specialised production in prehistoric societies, examines approaches to specialization and exchange.

Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology

Author : Charles Golden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113594606X
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology written by Charles Golden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the current state of Maya archaeology by focusing on the history of the field for the last 100 years, present day research, and forward looking prescription for the direction of the field.

Maya Postclassic State Formation

Author : John W. Fox
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521321105
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Maya Postclassic State Formation written by John W. Fox and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1987 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Fox here offers a fresh and persuasive view of the crucial Classic-Postclassic transition that determined the shape of the later Maya state. Drawing this data from ethnographic analogy and native chronicles as well as archaeology, he identifies segmentary lineage organisation as the key to understanding both the political organisation and the long-distance migrations observed among the Quiche Maya of Guatemala and Mexico. The first part of the book traces the origins of the Quiche, Itza and Xiu to the homeland on the Mexican Gulf coast where they acquired their potent Toltec mythology and identifies early segmentary lineages that developed as a result of social forces in the frontier zone. Dr Fox then matches the known anthropological characteristics of segmentary lineages against the Mayan kinship relationships described in documents and deduced from the spatial patterning within Quiche towns and cities. His conclusion, that the inherently fissile nature of segmentary lineages caused the leapfrogging migrations of up to 500km observed amongst the Maya, offers a convincing solution to a problem that has long puzzled scholars.

The First Maya Civilization

Author : Francisco Estrada-Belli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136882502
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The First Maya Civilization written by Francisco Estrada-Belli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise of such famous cities as Palenque, Copan and Yaxchilan, Maya civilization was already nearly a millennium old. Its first cities, such as Nakbe and El Mirador, had some of the largest temples ever raised in Prehispanic America, while others such as Cival showed even earlier evidence of complex rituals. The reality of this Preclassic Maya civilization has been documented by scholars over the past three decades: what had been seen as an age of simple village farming, belatedly responding to the stimulus of more advanced peoples in highland Mesoamerica, is now know to have been the period when the Maya made themselves into one of the New World's most innovative societies. This book discusses the most recent advances in our knowledge of the Preclassic Maya and the emergence of their rainforest civilization, with new data on settlement, political organization, architecture, iconography and epigraphy supporting a contemporary theoretical perspective that challenges prior assumptions.

Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya

Author : Vernon L. Scarborough
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816522736
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (227 download)

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Book Synopsis Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya by : Vernon L. Scarborough

Download or read book Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya written by Vernon L. Scarborough and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In recent years the Three Rivers region of Belize and Guatemala has been the site of some of the most intensive archaeological research in the Maya Lowlands, providing a wealth of regional data. This volume brings together articles reporting on findings and interpretations of the Programme for Belize Archaeological Project that range over a 10- to 12-year period and that shed new light on how ecology, economy, and political order developed in the ancient past.".

Lithic Analysis

Author : George H. Odell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441990097
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Lithic Analysis written by George H. Odell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical volume does not intend to replace a mentor, but acts as a readily accessible guide to the basic tools of lithic analysis. The book was awarded the 2005 SAA Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis. Some focuses of the manual include: history of stone tool research; procurement, manufacture and function; assemblage variability. It is an incomparable source for academic archaeologists, cultural resource and heritage management archaeologists, government heritage agencies, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of archaeology focused on the prehistoric period.

Lithics

Author : William Andrefsky (Jr.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521578158
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book Lithics written by William Andrefsky (Jr.) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive manual on stone artifact analysis, with detailed examples of how to measure, record and analyse stone tools and stone tool production debris. Logically ordered, clearly written and well illustrated, it is designed for students and professional archaeologists. The first section provides the necessary background information, introducing the reader to lithic raw materials, and the classification of stone artifacts, basic terminology and concepts. It goes on to discuss various methods and techniques of analysis. The final section presents detailed case studies of lithic analysis from different parts of the world, illustrating the actual application of the techniques and methods discussed earlier.

Obsidian Reflections

Author : David M. Carballo
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 160732301X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Obsidian Reflections written by David M. Carballo and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Departing from the political economy perspective taken by the vast majority of volumes devoted to Mesoamerican obsidian, Obsidian Reflections is an examination of obsidian's sociocultural dimensions—particularly in regard to Mesoamerican world view, religion, and belief systems. Exploring the materiality of this volcanic glass rather than only its functionality, this book considers the interplay among people, obsidian, and meaning and how these relationships shaped patterns of procurement, exchange, and use. An international group of scholars hailing from Belize, France, Japan, Mexico, and the United States provides a variety of case studies from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. The authors draw on archaeological, iconographic, ethnographic, and ethnohistoric data to examine obsidian as a touchstone for cultural meaning, including references to sacrificial precepts, powerful deities, landscape, warfare, social relations, and fertility. Obsidian Reflections underscores the necessity of understanding obsidian from within its cultural context—the perspective of the indigenous people of Mesoamerica. It will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists as well as students and scholars of lithic studies and material culture.

Dimensions of Ritual Economy

Author : Patricia Ann McAnany
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0762314850
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Dimensions of Ritual Economy written by Patricia Ann McAnany and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. This book explores how values and beliefs structure the dual processes of provisioning and consuming.

Re-Creating Primordial Time

Author : Gabrielle Vail
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322218
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Re-Creating Primordial Time written by Gabrielle Vail and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts, Vail and Hernández show that in spite of significant cultural change during the Postclassic and Colonial periods, the mythological traditions reveal significant continuity, beginning as far back as the Classic period. Remarkable similarities exist within the Maya tradition, even as new mythologies were introduced through contact with the Gulf Coast region and highland central Mexico. Vail and Hernández analyze the extant Maya codices within the context of later literary sources such as the Books of Chilam Balam, the Popol Vuh, and the Códice Chimalpopoca to present numerous examples highlighting the relationship among creation mythology, rituals, and lore. Compiling and comparing Maya creation mythology with that of the Borgia codices from highland central Mexico, Re-Creating Primordial Time is a significant contribution to the field of Mesoamerican studies and will be of interest to scholars of archaeology, linguistics, epigraphy, and comparative religions alike.

Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America

Author : Susan Toby Evans
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815308874
Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)

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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.

The American Southwest and Mesoamerica

Author : Jonathon E. Ericson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780306441783
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The American Southwest and Mesoamerica written by Jonathon E. Ericson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993-01-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only available volume to summarize current knowledge of prehistoric regional exchange in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica. As such, anthropologists and archaeologists will find it a valuable source of important data for comparative analysis of regional systems relative to sociopolitical organization.