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Author : Eduard Seler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Observations and Studies in the Ruins of Palenque written by Eduard Seler and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eduard Seler
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Download or read book Observations and Studies in the Ruins of Palenque written by Eduard Seler and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Asa Simon Mittman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351894315
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous written by Asa Simon Mittman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics, and cultural and media studies. The companion will offer scholars and graduate students the first comprehensive and authoritative review of this emergent field.
Author : Linda Schele
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884020851
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Bodega of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico written by Linda Schele and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1979 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Parmington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107002346
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City written by Alexander Parmington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how images, texts and architectural form controlled movement of people through the various precincts in Classic Maya cities.
Author : Gabrielle Vail
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780884023463
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests written by Gabrielle Vail and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines evidence for cultural interchange among the intellectual powerbrokers in Postclassic Mesoamerica, specifically those centered in the northern Maya lowlands and the central Mexican highlands. It includes a wealth of new data and interpretive frameworks in a comprehensive discussion of a critical time period in Mesoamerica.
Author : Geoffrey E. Braswell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292705876
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Maya and Teotihuacan written by Geoffrey E. Braswell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debate has been fierce about the date and extent of influence of the central Mexican culture of Teotihuaca on the Maya. This volume, which aims to bring the debate up-to-date, comprises thirteen essays that draw on recent archaeological evidence, particularly burials and ceramic assemblages, to recreate the region's ethnicity during the Early Classic period. Evidence of interaction is also found in carved monuments and architectural design. Includes an extensive bibliography.
Author : Gabrielle Vail
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185929
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume Two written by Gabrielle Vail and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited resource complements its companion volume on Classic Period monumental inscriptions. Authors Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle Vail provide a comprehensive listing of graphemes found in the Dresden, Madrid, and Paris codices, 40 percent of which are unique to these painted manuscripts, and discuss current and past interpretations of these graphemes. The New Catalog uses an original coding system developed for the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project. The new three-digit codes group the graphemes according to their visual, rather than functional, characteristics to allow readers to see distinctions between similar signs. Each entry contains the grapheme’s New Catalog code, an image, the corresponding Thompson number, proposed syllabic and logographic values, calendrical significance, and bibliographical citations. Appendices and an index of signs from both volumes contain images of all graphemes and variants ordered by code, allowing readers to search for graphemes by visual form or by their proposed logographic and phonetic values. Together the two volumes of the New Catalog represent the most significant updating of the sign lists for the Maya script proposed in half a century. They provide a cutting-edge reference tool critical to the research of Mesoamericanists in the fields of archaeology, art history, ethnohistory, and linguistics, and a valuable resource to scholars specializing in comparative studies of writing systems and related disciplines.
Author : Carolyn E. Tate
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292739125
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Yaxchilan written by Carolyn E. Tate and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As archaeologists peel away the jungle covering that has both obscured and preserved the ancient Maya cities of Mexico and Central America, other scholars have only a limited time to study and understand the sites before the jungle, weather, and human encroachment efface them again, perhaps forever. This urgency underlies Yaxchilan: The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City, Carolyn Tate's comprehensive catalog and analysis of all the city's extant buildings and sculptures. During a year of field work, Tate fully documented the appearance of the site as of 1987. For each sculpture and building, she records its discovery, present location, condition, measurements, and astronomical orientation and reconstructs its Long Counts and Julian dates from Calendar Rounds. Line drawings and photographs provide a visual document of the art and architecture of Yaxchilan. More than mere documentation, however, the book explores the phenomenon of art within Maya society. Tate establishes a general framework of cultural practices, spiritual beliefs, and knowledge likely to have been shared by eighth-century Maya people. The process of making public art is considered in relation to other modes of aesthetic expression, such as oral tradition and ritual. This kind of analysis is new in Maya studies and offers fresh insight into the function of these magnificent cities and the powerful role public art and architecture play in establishing cultural norms, in education in a semiliterate society, and in developing the personal and community identities of individuals. Several chapters cover the specifics of art and iconography at Yaxchilan as a basis for examining the creation of the city in the Late Classic period. Individual sculptures are attributed to the hands of single artists and workshops, thus aiding in dating several of the monuments. The significance of headdresses, backracks, and other costume elements seen on monuments is tied to specific rituals and fashions, and influence from other sites is traced. These analyses lead to a history of the design of the city under the reigns of Shield Jaguar (A.D. 681-741) and Bird Jaguar IV (A.D. 752-772). In Tate's view, Yaxchilan and other Maya cities were designed as both a theater for ritual activities and a nexus of public art and social structures that were crucial in defining the self within Maya society.
Author : Michael D. Carrasco
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813070171
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Under the Shade of Thipaak written by Michael D. Carrasco and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society for Ethnobotany Daniel F. Austin Award The important cultural role of an ancient, endangered plant Under the Shade of Thipaak is the first book to explore the cultural role of cycads, plants that evolved over 250 million years ago and are now critically endangered, in the ancient and modern Mesoamerican and Caribbean worlds. This volume demonstrates how these ancient plants have figured prominently in regional mythologies, rituals, art, and foodways from the Pleistocene-Holocene transition to the present. Contributors discuss the importance of cycads from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including biology and population genetics, historical ecology, archaeology, art history, linguistics, and conservation and sustainability. Chapters pay special attention to the enduring conceptual relationships between cycads and maize. This book demonstrates how a close examination of cycad-human relationships can motivate conservation of these threatened plants in ways that engage local communities, as well as promote the significance of ancient and modern practices that unite nature and culture. Contributors: Francisco Barona-Gómez | Emanuel Bojorquez Quintal | Mark A. Bonta | Edder Daniel Bustos-Díaz | Dánae Cabrera-Toledo | Michael Calonje | Michael D. Carrasco | Angélica Cibrián-Jaramillo | Joshua D. Englehardt | Jorge González-Astorga | Naishla M. Gutiérrez-Arroyo | José Saíd Gutiérrez-Ortega | Thomas Hart | Jaime R. Pagán-Jiménez | Francisco Pérez-Zavala | Luis Rojas Abarca | Esteban Sánchez Rodríguez | Dennis William Stevenson | Amber M. VanDerwarker | Luis R. Velázquez Maldonado | Andrew P. Vovides
Author : David M. Pendergast
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing the Past written by David M. Pendergast and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memorial volume dedicated to Hal Ball gathers a selection of papers on the ancient past of the Maya, Mesoamerica, or Central American peoples. It reflects the diversity of the honorand's interests in the ancient worlds represented and mirrors the varied ways in which scholars approach their reconstruction. The chapters include examinations of the sites of Ecab, Palenque, Cuello and Lamanai; the rollicking tale of an episode in the nineteenth-century history of Copan; a group of general studies that embrace a wide range of topics, from Maya warfare to the Lamanai Temple type and an unusual class of artifact found in non-Maya Mesoamerica; a look at housework at Cihuatán and at stone sculpture in El Salvador; and a final chapter that suggests what one can learn from working in the tropical setting in which all of the research recounted here has taken place.
Author : Vera Tiesler
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816537313
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Janaab' Pakal of Palenque written by Vera Tiesler and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavations of Maya burial vaults at Palenque, Mexico, half a century ago revealed what was then the most extraordinary tomb finding of the pre-Columbian world; its discovery has been crucial to an understanding of the dynastic history and ideology of the ancient Maya. This volume communicates the broad scope of applied interdisciplinary research conducted on the Pakal remains to provide answers to old disputes over the accuracy of both skeletal and epigraphic studies, along with new questions in the field of Maya dynastic research. A benchmark in biological anthropology that presents an updated study of a well-known personage, the volume also offers innovative approaches to the biocultural and interdisciplinary re-creation of Maya dynastic history.
Author : Martha J. Macri
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806134970
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs: The Classic period inscriptions written by Martha J. Macri and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, archaeologists, photographers, and artists recorded the Maya carvings that remained, often by transporting box cameras and plaster casts through the jungle on muleback. The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume I: The Classic Period Inscriptions is a guide to all the known hieroglyphic symbols of the Classic Maya script. In the New Catalog Martha J. Macri and Matthew G. Looper have produced a valuable research tool based on the latest Mesoamerican scholarship. An essential resource for all students of Maya texts, the New Catalog is also accessible to nonspecialists with an interest in Mesoamerican cultures. Macri and Looper present the combined knowledge of the most reliable scholars in Maya epigraphy. They provide currently accepted syllabic and logographic values, a history of references to published discussions of each sign, and related lexical entries from dictionaries of Maya languages, all of which were compiled through the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project. This first volume of the New Catalog focuses on texts from the Classic Period (approximately 150-900 C.E.), which have been found on carved stone monuments, stucco wall panels, wooden lintels, carved and painted pottery, murals, and small objects of jadeite, shell, bone, and wood. The forthcoming second volume will describe the hieroglyphs of the three surviving Maya codices that date from later periods.
Author : Robert Goldwater Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalog of the Robert Goldwater Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Robert Goldwater Library and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antonio del Rio
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Description of the Ruins of an Ancient City, Discovered Near Palenque, in the Kingdom of Guatemala, in Spanish America ... Followed by Teatro Critico Americano written by Antonio del Rio and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : William Henry Holmes
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Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book Archaeological Studies Among the Ancient Cities of Mexico: Monuments of Chiapas, Oaxaca and the Valley of Mexico written by William Henry Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
