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Author : Luis Gustavo Jurado Duarte
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Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book Piezas maestras mayas written by Luis Gustavo Jurado Duarte and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia Guernsey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139536508
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
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.
Author : Vera Tiesler
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477327576
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Ancient Maya Teeth written by Vera Tiesler and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Maya dental modification from archaeological sites spanning three millennia. Dental modification was common across ancient societies, but perhaps none were more avid practitioners than the Maya. They filed their teeth flat or pointy, polished and drilled them, and crafted decorative inlays of jade and pyrite. Unusually, Maya of all social classes, ages, and professions engaged in dental modification. What did it mean to them? Ancient Maya Teeth is the most comprehensive study of Maya dental modification ever published, based on thousands of teeth recovered from 130 sites spanning three millennia. Esteemed archaeologist Vera Tiesler sifts the evidence, much of it gathered with her own hands and illustrated here with more than a hundred photographs. Exploring the underlying theory and practice of dental modification, Tiesler raises key questions. How did modifications vary across the individual’s lifespan? What tools were used? How did the Maya deal with pain—and malpractice? How did they keep their dentitions healthy, functioning, and beautiful? What were the relationships among gender, social identity, and particular dental-modification choices? Addressing these and other issues, Ancient Maya Teeth reveals how dental-modification customs shifted over the centuries, indexing other significant developments in Mayan cultural history.
Author : Peter J. Schmidt
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Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Maya written by Peter J. Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harri Kettunen
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Total Pages : 796 pages
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Download or read book Nasal Motifs in Maya Iconography written by Harri Kettunen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellen E. Bell
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9781931707510
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Understanding Early Classic Copan written by Ellen E. Bell and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 2004 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is not just multidisciplinary but interdisciplinary, linking, for example, the architecture of monuments with epigraphy, language concepts, and human events.
Author : Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
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Total Pages : 110 pages
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Download or read book Obras maestras written by Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrés Ciudad Ruíz
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Total Pages : 542 pages
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Download or read book Reconstruyendo la ciudad maya written by Andrés Ciudad Ruíz and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Carrasco
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195142563
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (425 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures written by David Carrasco and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the most up-to-date coverage on our knowledge of this society, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures is the first comprehensive and comparative reference source to chronicle Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, and modern Mesoamerica.Written for a wide audience, it is an invaluable reference for interested lay persons, students, teachers, and scholars in such fields as art, archaeology, religious studies, anthropology, Latin American culture, and the history of the region. Organized alphabetically, the articles range from500-word biographies to 7,000-word entries on geography and history to the legacy of the arts, writings, architecture, and religious rituals.An extensive network of cross-references, blind entries, and annotated bibliographies guide the reader to related entries within the Encyclopedia and provide the groundwork for further research.
Author : Beatriz de la Fuente
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Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book Obras written by Beatriz de la Fuente and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenn Hirth
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Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mesoamerican Lithic Technology written by Kenn Hirth and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any overview of prehispanic society in the Americas would identify its obsidian core-blade production as a unique and highly inventive technology. Normally termed prismatic blades, these long, parallel-sided flakes are among the sharpest cutting tools ever produced by humans. Their standardized form permitted interchangeable use, and such blades became the cutting tool of choice throughout Mesoamerica between 600-800 B.C. Because considerable production skill is required, increased demand may have stimulated the appearance of craft specialists who played an integral role in Mesoamerican society. Some investigators have argued that control over obsidian also had a significant effect on the development and organization of chiefdom and state-level societies. While researchers have long recognized the potential of obsidian studies, recent work has focused primarily on compositional analysis to reconstruct trade and distribution networks. Study of blade production has received much less attention, and many aspects of this highly evolved craft are still lost. This volume seeks to identify current research questions in Mesoamerican lithic technology and to demonstrate that replication studies coupled with experimental research design are valuable analytical approaches to such questions.
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Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Mayas of the Classical Period written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book Journal of Mesoamerican Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress
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Total Pages : 1038 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress
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Total Pages : 1006 pages
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Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395924990
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (249 download)
Download or read book The Buried Mirror written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Spanish culture in Spain and the Americas traces the social, political, and economic forces that created that culture.
Author : Pedro Aplícano Mendieta
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Total Pages : 204 pages
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Download or read book Leyendas Mayas written by Pedro Aplícano Mendieta and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
