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The Aztecs, Maya, and their Predecessors

Author : Muriel Porter Weaver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315418916
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Aztecs, Maya, and their Predecessors written by Muriel Porter Weaver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Edition of this highly successful introduction to the archaeology of Mesoamerica includes full coverage of the Aztec and Maya areas in one volume. Beginning with the settling of the New World and continuing through the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in 1521, this completely updated textbook includes the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphs, the dynamic history of the Maya, the new royal tomb excavated at Copan, Honduras, important new discoveries at Rio Azul and Naj Tunich in Guatemala, and Caracol in Belize, ritual sacrifices on a massive scale revealed at Teotihuacan in central Mexico, and new material from Tula (Toltec capitol) and from the heart of Mexico City.

The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors

Author : Muriel Porter Weaver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors written by Muriel Porter Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Aztecs, Maya, and their predecessors

Author : Muriel Porter Weaver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Aztecs, Maya, and their predecessors written by Muriel Porter Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Codex Mexicanus

Author : Lori Boornazian Diel
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477316736
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Codex Mexicanus written by Lori Boornazian Diel and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a group of Nahua intellectuals in Mexico City set about compiling an extensive book of miscellanea, which was recorded in pictorial form with alphabetic texts in Nahuatl clarifying some imagery or adding new information altogether. This manuscript, known as the Codex Mexicanus, includes records pertaining to the Aztec and Christian calendars, European medical astrology, a genealogy of the Tenochca royal house, and an annals history of pre-conquest Tenochtitlan and early colonial Mexico City, among other topics. Though filled with intriguing information, the Mexicanus has long defied a comprehensive scholarly analysis, surely due to its disparate contents. In this pathfinding volume, Lori Boornazian Diel presents the first thorough study of the entire Codex Mexicanus that considers its varied contents in a holistic manner. She provides an authoritative reading of the Mexicanus’s contents and explains what its creation and use reveal about native reactions to and negotiations of colonial rule in Mexico City. Diel makes sense of the codex by revealing how its miscellaneous contents find counterparts in Spanish books called Reportorios de los tiempos. Based on the medieval almanac tradition, Reportorios contain vast assortments of information related to the issue of time, as does the Mexicanus. Diel masterfully demonstrates that, just as Reportorios were used as guides to living in early modern Spain, likewise the Codex Mexicanus provided its Nahua audience a guide to living in colonial New Spain.

The Aztec Kings

Author : Susan D. Gillespie
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816547602
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Aztec Kings written by Susan D. Gillespie and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the American Society for Ethnohistory's Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize Scholars have long viewed histories of the Aztecs either as flawed chronologies plagued by internal inconsistencies and intersource discrepancies or as legends that indiscriminately mingle reality with the supernatural. But this new work draws fresh conclusions from these documents, proposing that Aztec dynastic history was recast by its sixteenth-century recorders not merely to glorify ancestors but to make sense out of the trauma of conquest and colonialism. The Aztec Kings is the first major study to take into account the Aztec cyclical conception of time—which required that history constantly be reinterpreted to achieve continuity between past and present—and to treat indigenous historical traditions as symbolic statements in narrative form. Susan Gillespie focuses on the dynastic history of the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, whose stories reveal how the Aztecs used "history" to construct, elaborate, and reify ideas about the nature of rulership and the cyclical nature of the cosmos, and how they projected the Spanish conquest deep into the Aztec past in order to make history accommodate that event. By demonstrating that most of Aztec history is nonliteral, she sheds new light on Aztec culture and on the function of history in society. By relating the cyclical structure of Aztec dynastic history to similar traditions of African and Polynesian peoples, she introduces a broader perspective on the function of history in society and on how and why history must change.

Pre-Columbian America

Author : Kathleen Kuiper Manager, Arts and Culture
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 161530150X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Pre-Columbian America written by Kathleen Kuiper Manager, Arts and Culture and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of ancient American civilizations prior to the arrival of Columbus, discussing history, agriculture, religion, architecture, art, and politics.

Middle America

Author : Mary W. Helms
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819122308
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Middle America written by Mary W. Helms and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1982 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by Prentice-Hall in 1975.

The Lowland Maya Postclassic

Author : Arlen F. Chase
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477302603
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Lowland Maya Postclassic written by Arlen F. Chase and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.

Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire

Author : David Carrasco
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226094901
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire written by David Carrasco and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-06-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davíd Carrasco draws from the perspectives of the history of religions, anthropology, and urban ecology to explore the nature of the complex symbolic form of Quetzalcoatl in the organization, legitimation, and subversion of a large segment of the Mexican urban tradition. His new Preface addresses this tradition in the light of the Columbian quincentennial. "This book, rich in ideas, constituting a novel approach . . . represents a stimulating and provocative contribution to Mesoamerican studies. . . . Recommended to all serious students of the New World's most advanced indigenous civilization."—H. B. Nicholson, Man

Sacred Sites, Sacred Places

Author : David L. Carmichael
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135633207
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Sites, Sacred Places written by David L. Carmichael and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Sites, Sacred Places explores the concept of 'sacred' and what it means and implies to people in differing cultures. It looks at why people regard some parts of the land as special and why this ascription remains constant in some cultures and changes in others. Archaeologists, legislators and those involved in heritage management sometimes encounter conflict with local populations over sacred sites. With the aid of over 70 illustrations the book examines the extreme importance of such sacred places in all cultures and the necessity of accommodating those intimate beliefs which are such a vital part of ongoing cultural identity. Sacred Sites, Sacred Places therefore will be of help to those who wish to be non-destructive in their conservation and excavation practices. This book is unique in attempting to describe the belief systems surrounding the existence of sacred sites, and at the same time bringing such beliefs and practices into relationship with the practical problems of everyday heritage management. The geographical coverage of the book is exceptionally wide and its variety of contributors, including indigenous peoples, archaeologists and heritage professionals, is unrivalled in any other publication.

Historical Dictionary of Ancient Mesoamerica

Author : Joel W. Palka
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810837157
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Ancient Mesoamerica written by Joel W. Palka and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This historical dictionary covers some of the major discoveries of the diverse investigations that have taken place throughout ancient Mesoamerican over the last 100 years."--Preface.

The A to Z of Ancient Mesoamerica

Author : Joel W. Palka
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461671736
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of Ancient Mesoamerica written by Joel W. Palka and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Mesoamerica drew world interest in the 19th century when photographs, drawings, and descriptions of discoveries of ruined cities in exotic locations in Mexico and Central America were published. These accounts from early explorers, archaeologists, and travelers made the cultures and archaeological sites of ancient Mesoamerica including the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Mixtec, Tarascan, Toltec, Zapotec, and other civilizations a major focus of intensive research, public and private funding, and lay interest. The A to Z of Ancient Mesoamerica covers some of the major discoveries throughout ancient Mesoamerica from the last 100 years. The results of previous and continuing research and explorations, plus recent interpretations of ancient cultures and new work at archaeological sites in Mesoamerica are summarized here. Included in this volume are information and insights on archaeological sites, material culture, social and economic organization, religion and belief systems, and the social history of ancient Mesoamerica. The entries contain geographical, chronological, historical, and interpretive data that serve as a condensed and accessible resource of reference material. Also presented here are select historical personages of ancient times and some brief notes on their lives and accomplishments taken from hieroglyphic texts, painted books or codices, and written documents and oral histories from the colonial period. With a bibliography and chronology, this text will be the perfect starting point for high school or undergraduate research, and a helpful ready-reference for more experienced scholars.

Twin Tollans

Author : Cynthia Kristan-Graham
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884023234
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Twin Tollans written by Cynthia Kristan-Graham and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 2007 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume had its beginnings in the two-day colloquium, "Rethinking Chichén Itzá, Tula and Tollan," that was held at Dumbarton Oaks. The selected essays revisit long-standing questions regarding the nature of the relationship between Chichen Itza and Tula. Rather than approaching these questions through the notions of migrations and conquests, these essays place the cities in the context of the emerging social, political, and economic relationships that took shape during the transition from the Epiclassic period in Central Mexico, the Terminal Classic period in the Maya region, and the succeeding Early Postclassic period.

Wealth and poverty: Aztec standard of living

Author : Stanford Mc Krause
Publisher : Brainy Bookstore Mckrause
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wealth and poverty: Aztec standard of living written by Stanford Mc Krause and published by Brainy Bookstore Mckrause. This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth century, in the eyes of the ruling class, land, arable land, remained the basis of all prosperity. As the dignitary rose in rank, he acquired the rights to more and larger areas of real estate. Theoretically, nobody was the owner of the land. The land belonged to the collective owner, calpulli, to public institutions such as temples, or to the city itself. There was no private ownership of the land, there was collective ownership with individual right of use.

The Hydraulic System of Uxul

Author : Nicolaus Seefeld
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784919306
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book The Hydraulic System of Uxul written by Nicolaus Seefeld and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research seeks to close an essential research gap – the understanding of the water management strategies of the Maya in pre-Hispanic times. It focuses on the archaeological investigation of the hydraulic system of Uxul, a medium-sized Maya centre in the south of the state of Campeche, Mexico.

Native Peoples of the World

Author : Steven L. Danver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317463994
Total Pages : 2475 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Native Peoples of the World written by Steven L. Danver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 2475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the world's indigenous peoples, their cultures, the countries in which they reside, and the issues that impact these groups.

Archaeology of Native North America

Author : Dean R. Snow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317350065
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of Native North America written by Dean R. Snow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive text is intended for the junior-senior level course in North American Archaeology. Written by accomplished scholar Dean Snow, this new text approaches native North America from the perspective of evolutionary ecology. Succinct, streamlined chapters present an extensive groundwork for supplementary material, or serve as a core text.The narrative covers all of Mesoamerica, and explicates the links between the part of North America covered by the United States and Canada and the portions covered by Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and the Greater Antilles. Additionally, book is extensively illustrated with the author's own research and findings.