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Book Synopsis Quiriguá Reports, Volume I by : Wendy Ashmore
Download or read book Quiriguá Reports, Volume I written by Wendy Ashmore and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1979-01-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Quiriguá and its magnificent carved monuments have been recorded and studied by scholars over the past century, little archaeological data were available until recently. From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at this major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala. The aims of the work were to document a basic chronology, to determine the nature and pattern of structures, and to test hypotheses concerning the origins, location, and demise of Quiriguá. University Museum Monograph, 37
Book Synopsis Quiriguá Reports, Volume II by : Edward M. Schortman
Download or read book Quiriguá Reports, Volume II written by Edward M. Schortman and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1983-01-29 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Quirigu and its magnificent carved monuments have been recorded and studied by scholars over the past century, little archaeological data were available until recently. From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at this major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala. The aims of the work were to document a basic chronology, to determine the nature and pattern of structures, and to test hypotheses concerning the origins, location, and demise of Quirigu . University Museum Monograph, 49
Book Synopsis Quiriguá Reports, Volume III by : Edward M. Schortman
Download or read book Quiriguá Reports, Volume III written by Edward M. Schortman and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1993-01-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at Quiriguá, a major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala, in order to document the basic chronology, determine the nature and pattern of structures, and test hypotheses concerning the origins, location, and demise of the city. This monograph reports the findings of the survey and excavations carried out in the lower Motagua Valley. Providing a regional context for Quiriguá, this volume focuses on wider-valley centers with monumental architecture, examining their chronology, function, and regional and interregional contacts. University Museum Monograph, 80
Download or read book Quirigua Reports written by and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1979 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Edward Mark Schortman Publisher :University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology ISBN 13 :9780924171192 Total Pages :314 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (711 download)
Book Synopsis Quiriguá Reports, Volume III by : Edward Mark Schortman
Download or read book Quiriguá Reports, Volume III written by Edward Mark Schortman and published by University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. This book was released on 1993-01-29 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at Quiriguá, a major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala, in order to document the basic chronology, determine the nature and pattern of structures, and test hypotheses concerning the origins, location, and demise of the city. This monograph reports the findings of the survey and excavations carried out in the lower Motagua Valley. Providing a regional context for Quiriguá, this volume focuses on wider-valley centers with monumental architecture, examining their chronology, function, and regional and interregional contacts. University Museum Monograph, 80
Author :Robert J. Sharer Publisher :University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology ISBN 13 :9780934718257 Total Pages :98 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (182 download)
Book Synopsis Quirigua Reports by : Robert J. Sharer
Download or read book Quirigua Reports written by Robert J. Sharer and published by University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology. This book was released on 1979 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lightning Warrior by : Matthew G. Looper
Download or read book Lightning Warrior written by Matthew G. Looper and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Maya city of Quirigua occupied a crossroads between Copan in the southeastern Maya highlands and the major centers of the Peten heartland. Though always a relatively small city, Quirigua stands out because of its public monuments, which were some of the greatest achievements of Classic Maya civilization. Impressive not only for their colossal size, high sculptural quality, and eloquent hieroglyphic texts, the sculptures of Quirigua are also one of the few complete, in situ series of Maya monuments anywhere, which makes them a crucial source of information about ancient Maya spirituality and political practice within a specific historical context. Using epigraphic, iconographic, and stylistic analyses, this study explores the integrated political-religious meanings of Quirigua's monumental sculptures during the eighth-century A.D. reign of the city's most famous ruler, K'ak' Tiliw. In particular, Matthew Looper focuses on the role of stelae and other sculpture in representing the persona of the ruler not only as a political authority but also as a manifestation of various supernatural entities with whom he was associated through ritual performance. By tracing this sculptural program from its Early Classic beginnings through the reigns of K'ak' Tiliw and his successors, and also by linking it to practices at Copan, Looper offers important new insights into the politico-religious history of Quirigua and its ties to other Classic Maya centers, the role of kingship in Maya society, and the development of Maya art.
Book Synopsis Settlement Archaeology at Quirigua, Guatemala by : Wendy Ashmore
Download or read book Settlement Archaeology at Quirigua, Guatemala written by Wendy Ashmore and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph reports the results of the Quiriguá Project Site Periphery Program, five seasons (1975-1979) of archaeological survey and excavation in the 96 km2 immediately adjoining the classic Maya site of Quiriguá. Ashmore identifies and helps us understand where and how the people of Quiriguá lived. She presents detailed material evidence in two data catalogues, for the floodplain settlement adjoining Quiriguá and for sites in the wider periphery. The work situates Quiriguá settlement firmly in a regional context, benefiting from the extraordinary abundance of information amassed in southeastern Mesoamerica since 1979. It sheds new light on the political, economic, and social dynamics of the region including the sometimes-fractious interactions between Quiriguá, its overlords at Copan, and people elsewhere in the Lower Motagua Valley and beyond. Quiriguá Reports, IV
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas by : Bruce G. Trigger
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas written by Bruce G. Trigger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.
Book Synopsis Landscape And Power In Ancient Mesoamerica by : Rex Koontz
Download or read book Landscape And Power In Ancient Mesoamerica written by Rex Koontz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early cities in the second millennium BC to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan on the eve of the Spanish conquest, Ancient Mesoamericans created landscapes full of meaning and power in the center of their urban spaces. The sixteenth century description of Tenochtitlan by Bernal Diaz del Castillo and the archaeological remnants of Teotihuacan attest to the power and centrality of these urban configurations in Ancient Mesoamerican history. In Landscape and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica, Rex Koontz, Kathryn Reese-Taylor, and Annabeth Headrick explore the cultural logic that structured and generated these centers.Through case studies of specific urban spaces and their meanings, the authors examine the general principles by which the Ancient Mesoamericans created meaningful urban space. In a profoundly interdisciplinary exchange involving both archaeologists and art historians, this volume connects the symbolism of those landscapes, the performances that activated this symbolism, and the cultural poetics of these ensembles.
Book Synopsis Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1 by : Victoria Reifler Bricker
Download or read book Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1 written by Victoria Reifler Bricker and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the most valuable resource ever produced for those involved in the study of Mesoamerica. When it was determined in 1978 that the Handbook should be updated periodically, Victoria Reifler Bricker, well-known cultural anthropologist, was selected to be series editor. This first volume of the Supplement is devoted to the dramatic changes that have taken place in the field of archaeology. The volume editor, Jeremy A. Sabloff, has gathered together detailed reports from the directors of many of the most significant archaeological projects of the mid-twentieth century in Mesoamerica, along with discussions of three topics of general interest (the rise of sedentary life, the evolution of complex culture, and the rise of cities).
Book Synopsis The Catalogue of Ivories from Hasanlu, Iran by : Oscar White Muscarella
Download or read book The Catalogue of Ivories from Hasanlu, Iran written by Oscar White Muscarella and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1980-01-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report on the small but unique assemblage of ivory objects that were discovered between 1957 and 1974 in northwestern Iran and all date prior to 800 BC when the site was sacked.
Book Synopsis From Athens to Gordion by : Keith DeVries
Download or read book From Athens to Gordion written by Keith DeVries and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1980-01-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nine papers in this volume, presented by former colleagues and students of the late Rodney S. Young, are representative of Young's archaeological interests: Athens, where he received his archaeological training, and Gordion, where he achieved his greatest successes. This book will prove valuable to students and scholars interested in the interconnections between Greece and Anatolia from the Bronze Age through classical times. University Museum Papers 1
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Cape Nome, Alaska by : John Bockstoce
Download or read book The Archaeology of Cape Nome, Alaska written by John Bockstoce and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1979-01-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review of past and present knowledge, and detailed account of excavations and archaeological findings.
Book Synopsis Death and the Classic Maya Kings by : James L. Fitzsimmons
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.
Book Synopsis Classic Maya Political History by : T. Patrick Culbert
Download or read book Classic Maya Political History written by T. Patrick Culbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-29 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the historical reality recorded on Classic Maya monuments of the first millennium AD, its interpretation in terms of social and political interaction within and between states, and the better understanding of Maya civilization that is emerging from a more accurate perception of the role of its ruling elites.
Book Synopsis Research Reports - National Geographic Society by : National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Download or read book Research Reports - National Geographic Society written by National Geographic Society (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts and reviews of research and exploration authorized under grants from the National Geographic Society.
