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Janaab' Pakal of Palenque

Author : Vera Tiesler
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816537313
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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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.

Kaqchikel Chronicles

Author :
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788223
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Kaqchikel Chronicles written by and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of documents known as the Kaqchikel Chronicles consists of rare highland Maya texts, which trace Kaqchikel Maya history from their legendary departure from Tollan/Tula through their migrations, wars, the Spanish invasion, and the first century of Spanish colonial rule. The texts represent a variety of genres, including formal narrative, continuous year-count annals, contribution records, genealogies, and land disputes. While the Kaqchikel Chronicles have been known to scholars for many years, this volume is the first and only translation of the texts in their entirety. The book includes two collections of documents, one known as the Annals of the Kaqchikels and the other as the Xpantzay Cartulary. The translation has been prepared by leading Mesoamericanists in collaboration with Kaqchikel-speaking linguistic scholars. It features interlinear glossing, which allows readers to follow the translators in the process of rendering colonial Kaqchikel into modern English. Extensive footnoting within the text restores the depth and texture of cultural context to the Chronicles. To put the translations in context, Judith Maxwell and Robert Hill have written a full scholarly introduction that provides the first modern linguistic discussion of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and pragmatic structure of sixteenth-century Kaqchikel. The translators also tell a lively story of how these texts, which derive from pre-contact indigenous pictographic and cartographic histories, came to be converted into their present form.

The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition

Author : Robert J. Sharer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804748179
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition written by Robert J. Sharer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich findings of recent exploration and research are incorporated in this completely revised and greatly expanded sixth edition of this standard work on the Maya people. New field discoveries, new technical advances, new successes in the decipherment of Maya writing, and new theoretical perspectives on the Maya past have made this new edition necessary.

50 Events That Shaped Latino History [2 volumes]

Author : Lilia Fernández
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book 50 Events That Shaped Latino History [2 volumes] written by Lilia Fernández and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which historical events were key to shaping Latino culture? This book provides coverage of the 50 most pivotal developments over 500 years that have shaped the Latino experience, offering primary sources, biographies of notable figures, and suggested readings for inquiry. Latinos—people of European, Indigenous, and African descent—have had a presence in North America long before the first British settlements arrived to the Eastern seaboard. The encounters between Spanish colonizers and the native peoples of the Americas initiated 500 years of a rich and vibrant history—an intermingled, cultural evolution that continues today in the 21st century. 50 Events that Shaped Latino History: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic is a valuable reference that provides a chronological overview of Latino/a history beginning with the indigenous populations of the Americas through the present day. It is divided into time period, such as Pre-Colonial Era to Spanish Empire, pre-1521–1810, and covers a variety of themes relevant to the time period, making it easy for the reader find information. The coverage offers readers background on critical events that have shaped Latino/a populations, revealed the conditions and experiences of Latinos, or highlighted their contributions to U.S. society. The text addresses events as varied as the U.S.-Mexican War to the rise of Latin jazz. The entries present a balance of political and cultural events, social developments, legal cases, and broader trends. Each entry has a chronology, a main narrative, biographies of notable figures, and suggested further readings, as well as one or more primary sources that offer additional context or information on the given event. These primary source materials offer readers additional insight via a first-hand account, original voices, or direct evidence on the subject matter.

The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal

Author : Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal written by Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes up anew the riddles within a number of Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions first recognised by Floyd Lounsbury. Gerardo Aldana unpacks these mathematical riddles using an approach grounded in a reading of the texts made possible by recent advances in decipherment. Using a history of science methodology, he expands upon (and sometimes questions) the foundational work of archaeoastronomers. Aldana follows three lines of investigation: a reading of the hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Classic period (ad250-900), mathematical analysis to recover Classic Maya astronomical practice, and a historiography of Maya astronomy. During troubled times in Palenque, Aldana contends, Kan Balam II devised a means to preserve the legitimacy of his ruling dynasty. He celebrated a re-creation of the city as a contemporary analogue of a mythical Creation on three levels: monumental construction for a public audience, artistic patronage for an elite audience, and a secret mathematical astronomical language only for rulers-elect. Discussing all of these efforts, Aldana focuses on the recovery of the secret language and its historical context.

Death and the Classic Maya Kings

Author : James L. Fitzsimmons
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292781989
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Death and the Classic Maya Kings written by James L. Fitzsimmons and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like their regal counterparts in societies around the globe, ancient Maya rulers departed this world with elaborate burial ceremonies and lavish grave goods, which often included ceramics, red pigments, earflares, stingray spines, jades, pearls, obsidian blades, and mosaics. Archaeological investigation of these burials, as well as the decipherment of inscriptions that record Maya rulers' funerary rites, have opened a fascinating window on how the ancient Maya envisaged the ruler's passage from the world of the living to the realm of the ancestors. Focusing on the Classic Period (AD 250-900), James Fitzsimmons examines and compares textual and archaeological evidence for rites of death and burial in the Maya lowlands, from which he creates models of royal Maya funerary behavior. Exploring ancient Maya attitudes toward death expressed at well-known sites such as Tikal, Guatemala, and Copan, Honduras, as well as less-explored archaeological locations, Fitzsimmons reconstructs royal mortuary rites and expands our understanding of key Maya concepts including the afterlife and ancestor veneration.

Seven Wonders of Ancient North America

Author : Mary B. Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822575728
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Seven Wonders of Ancient North America written by Mary B. Woods and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes seven monumental ancient North American architectural sites that still exist today, including Jellyfish Cove, the Anasazi Cliff Palace, and the pyramids of Teotihuacâan.

Res

Author : Hung Wu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0873658647
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Res written by Hung Wu and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Res 61/62 includes “Chinese coffins from the first millennium b.c. and early images of the afterworld” by Alain Thote; “Art and personhood” by Björn Ewald; “Western Han sarcophagi and the transformation of Chinese funerary art” by Zheng Yan; “Reading identity on Roman strigillated sarcophagi” by Janet Huskinson; and other papers.

The Maya World

Author : Scott R. Hutson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351029568
Total Pages : 983 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Maya World written by Scott R. Hutson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maya World brings together over 60 authors, representing the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and ethnography, who explore cutting-edge research on every major facet of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world. The Maya world, which covers Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador, contains over a hundred ancient sites that are open to tourism, eight of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and many thousands more that have been dug or await investigation. In addition to captivating the lay public, the ancient Maya have attracted scores of major interdisciplinary research expeditions and hundreds of smaller projects going back to the 19th century, making them one of the best-known ancient cultures. The Maya World explores their renowned writing system, towering stone pyramids, exquisitely painted murals, and elaborate funerary tombs as well as their creative agricultural strategies, complex social, economic, and political relationships, widespread interactions with other societies, and remarkable cultural resilience in the face of historical ruptures. This is an invaluable reference volume for scholars of the ancient Maya, including archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists.

Memory in Fragments

Author : Megan E. O'Neil
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477329390
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Memory in Fragments written by Megan E. O'Neil and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here in the US, we're having difficult discussions about who we should monumentalize, the political implications of our statues, or what to do with monuments that no longer reflect our ideals. In a way, this book looks at how the Maya dealt with these and related issues. The author explores how the ancient Maya engaged with their history by using, reusing, altering, and burying stone sculptures. O'Neil shows, for example, how the ancient Maya repurposed stelae that were damaged by their enemies. In some cases, they would break the stelae to signify a change in their status, and bury them with others so that the buried monuments connected with those still standing in specific sacred sites. Infused with agency, the sculptures retained ceremonial meaning. O'Neil explores how those breakages and other, different human interactions, amidst unstable religious, political, and historical contexts, changed the sculptures' "lives.""--

The Ancient American World

Author : William Leonard Fash
Publisher : Steck-Vaughn
ISBN 13 : 0195222474
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient American World written by William Leonard Fash and published by Steck-Vaughn. This book was released on 2005 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle schoolers never had it so good! Complete your ancient history collection with this series for students in grades 6 -8. A unique and engrossing collaboration between scholars and young adult fiction writers, The World in Ancient Times covers the ancient world from India to Greece, America to China. Each chapter is filled to the brim with the widest possible range of primary sources, giving each history lesson the texture missing from many general introductions.

The Mayan Red Queen

Author : Leonide Martin
Publisher : Made For Success Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1613398468
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Mayan Red Queen written by Leonide Martin and published by Made For Success Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Maya city of Lakam Ha has a new, young ruler, K'inich Janaab Pakal. His mother and prior ruler, Sak K’uk, has selected his wife, the next queen. Lalak is a shy and homely young woman from a nearby city who relates better to animals than people. She is chosen as Pakal’s wife because of her pristine lineage to B’aakal dynasty founders ̶ but also because she is no beauty. Arriving at Lakam Ha, she is overwhelmed by its sophisticated, complex society and expectations of the royal court. Her mother-in-law, Sak K’uk, is critical and hostile, resenting any intrusion between herself and her son. She chose Lalak to avoid being displaced in Pakal’s affections, and does everything she can to keep it this way. The official name she confers on Lalak exposes her view of the girl as a breeder of future rulers: Tz’aabk’u Ahau, the Accumulator of Lords who sets the royal succession. Lalak struggles to learn her new role and prove her worth, facing challenges in her relationship with Pakal, for he is enamored of a beautiful woman banished from Lakam Ha by his mother. Pakal’s esthetic tastes and love of beauty affect his view of his homely wife. Lalak, however, is fated to play a pivotal role in Pakal’s mission to restore the spiritual portal to the Triad Gods that was destroyed in a devastating attack by archenemy Kan. Through learning sexual alchemy, Lalak brings the immense creative force of sacred union to rebuild the portal, but first Pakal must come to view his wife in a new light. In modern times, ten years after the discovery of the Red Queen's tomb, archeologist Francesca is studying new research about this mysterious royal woman in Mérida, Mexico. She teams up with British linguist Charlie to decipher an ancient manuscript left by her deceased grandmother. It provides clues about her grandmother's secrets that propel them into exploring her family history in a remote Maya village.

Maya Gods of War

Author : Karen Bassie-Sweet
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646421329
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Maya Gods of War written by Karen Bassie-Sweet and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous archaeological projects have found substantial evidence of the military nature of Maya society, and warfare is a frequent theme of Maya art. Maya Gods of War investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made. Author Karen Bassie-Sweet traces the semantic markers used to distinguish flint from other types of stone, surveys various types of Chahk thunderbolt deities and their relationship to flint weapons, and explores the connection between lightning and the ruling elite. Additional chapters review these fire and solar deities and their roles in Maya warfare and examine the nature and manifestations of the Central Mexican thunderbolt god Tlaloc, his incorporation into the Maya pantheon, and his identification with meteors and obsidian weapons. Finally, Bassie-Sweet addresses the characteristics of the deity God L, his role as an obsidian merchant god, and his close association with the ancient land route between the highland Guatemalan obsidian sources and the lowlands. Through analysis of the nature of the Teotihuacán deities and exploration of the ways in which these gods were introduced into the Maya region and incorporated into the Maya worldview, Maya Gods of War offers new insights into the relationship between warfare and religious beliefs in Mesoamerica. This significant work will be of interest to scholars of Maya religion and iconography.

The Ark of Millions of Years

Author : E. J. Clark
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434380645
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book The Ark of Millions of Years written by E. J. Clark and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The authors have, perhaps through their scientific backgrounds, avoided the trap of so many in this genre. They have combined all the facts with clarity. They have provided practical tools and knowledge with which the individual person can reach their maximum potential, and thus may have shown us a way to get out of this alive." -The Scientific Journal "Dr. Agnew is a great explorer. He brings back evidence from places no one has seen in thousands of years. One afternoon, I shared in his journeys like a little boy waiting for stories around the campfire. I wish I could go with him on his next voyage." -Hanny el Zeini (author of Omm Sety's Egypt) This is the consummate work on the End Times. Something more urgently important than terrorism or warfare is looming on the horizon. It is 2012. Global warming and natural disasters are linked to this date. Old Testament prophets foresaw this date as an End Time cataclysm where a third of the Earth will perish. Modern religionists believe it is the coming day of rapture. Ancient civilizations left irrefutable messages in stone and legend that the Earth itself will make a dimensional shift. Earth's magnetic tetrahedrons are being energized as never before in anticipation of her prophesied 2012 appointment with destiny. Many cycles of time expire in 2012. Why? The research within the covers of this book will open your eyes even as ours were opened. In appears humans have been handed one roadmap through ancient prophets that leads to the end of the human race. This book unlocks the secret for hundreds of millions of people who know that many are called, but few choose. The authors have assembled the finest proof in the universe to empower human beings for a collective choice. We have the power to choose a different future for the universe. Can we actually walk away from Armageddon and become the star explorers we were meant to be? Is there any chance we will get out of the 2012 End Times alive? Yes, read the book and choose a new future for planet Earth. This is the final book in what may be the most comprehensive trilogy on 2012 ever written, also called The End Time Books. You will receive the tools and the information you need to understand your full potential. You are only limited by your dreams and your fear. Let's get started. The authors are available for public speaking at book clubs, expos, conferences, television and radio interviews. They are among the hardest working authors in the business and want to make sure everyone has a chance to hear these words. They may be reached through contact information found at www.arkofmillionsofyears.com

The Code of Kings

Author : Linda Schele
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684852098
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Code of Kings written by Linda Schele and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-06-06 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly informative tour of a lost civilization discusses Mayan history and culture and focuses on seven sites that exemplify the Mayan tradition of using public places to record their history and belief system. Maps, drawings & photos.

Maya Narrative Arts

Author : Karen Bassie-Sweet
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607327422
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Maya Narrative Arts written by Karen Bassie-Sweet and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Maya Narrative Arts, authors Karen Bassie-Sweet and Nicholas A. Hopkins present a comprehensive and innovative analysis of the principles of Classic Maya narrative arts and apply those principles to some of the major monuments of the site of Palenque. They demonstrate a recent methodological shift in the examination of art and inscriptions away from minute technical issues and toward the poetics and narratives of texts and the relationship between texts and images. Bassie-Sweet and Hopkins show that both visual and verbal media present carefully planned narratives, and that the two are intimately related in the composition of Classic Maya monuments. Text and image interaction is discussed through examples of stelae, wall panels, lintels, benches, and miscellaneous artifacts including ceramic vessels and codices. Bassie-Sweet and Hopkins consider the principles of contrast and complementarity that underlie narrative structures and place this study in the context of earlier work, proposing a new paradigm for Maya epigraphy. They also address the narrative organization of texts and images as manifested in selected hieroglyphic inscriptions and the accompanying illustrations, stressing the interplay between the two. Arguing for a more holistic approach to Classic Maya art and literature, Maya Narrative Arts reveals how close observation and reading can be equally if not more productive than theoretical discussions, which too often stray from the very data that they attempt to elucidate. The book will be significant for Mesoamerican art historians, epigraphers, linguists, and archaeologists.

The War of the Angels

Author : Jesús Ariel Aguirre
Publisher : Editorial Autores de Argentina
ISBN 13 : 9878741613
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book The War of the Angels written by Jesús Ariel Aguirre and published by Editorial Autores de Argentina. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious object has been stolen from the British Museum. A group of religious fanatics intends to use it to give life to an evil creature, using an old lost language, that of angels. Adams, a young priest, together with the old chaplain Martin, will seek the help of Professor Thomas Dee, who knows Enochian, a language created by his great-great-grandfather John Dee. In search of a forbidden book, they will begin this adventure that will take them through Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Russia, Turkey, Mexico and Antarctica itself. Following in the footsteps of Lovecraft and his Myths, they will seek the answer in the Necronomicon and other Grimoires that will teach them to close the evil portal. They will come across characters like Nostradamus, Rasputin, Alice Crowley, Van Gogh and Merlin. They will also delve into the mysteries of Kabbalah and Alchemy. They will analyze the Crusades, the Holy Inquisition, the Cathars and the Essenes. Only the Angels will be able to help them with their difficult mission that will take them through great libraries and unveil the mystery of the great Cathedrals.