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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 : Linda Schele
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Catalog of the Bodega at Palenque written by Linda Schele and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Damien B. Marken
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759108752
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Palenque written by Damien B. Marken and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2007 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of articles on recent excavations and studies of one of the best known Maya archaeological sites
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870995952
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Mexico written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1990 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precolumbian art -- Viceregal art -- Nineteenth century art -- Twentieth century art.
Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884021421
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Painted Architecture and Polychrome Monumental Sculpture in Mesoamerica written by Elizabeth Hill Boone and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1985 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Stuart
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022091
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Classic Maya Place Names written by David Stuart and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1994 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors present evidence that specific place names do exist in Maya inscriptions, and show that identifying these names sheds considerable light on both past and present questions about the Maya.
Author : Stephen D. Houston
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022541
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture written by Stephen D. Houston and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1998 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These articles mark a significant stage in the study of Maya architecture and the society that built it. They represent advances in our understandings of the past, point toward avenues for further studies, and note the distance yet to travel in fully appreciating and understanding this ancient American culture and its material remains.
Author : Sarah E. Jackson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806189258
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Politics of the Maya Court written by Sarah E. Jackson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, advances in deciphering Maya hieroglyphic writing have given scholars new tools for understanding key aspects of ancient Maya society. This book—the first comprehensive examination of the Maya royal court—exemplifies the importance of these new sources. Authored by anthropologist Sarah E. Jackson and richly illustrated with drawings, photographs, and maps, Politics of the Maya Court uses hieroglyphic and iconographic evidence to explore the composition and social significance of royal courts in the Late Classic period (a.d. 600–900), with a special emphasis on the role of courtly elites. As Jackson explains, the Maya region of southern Mexico and Central America was not a unified empire but a loosely aggregated culture area composed of independent kingdoms. Royal courts had a presence in large, central communities from Chiapas to Yucatan and the highlands of Guatemala and western Honduras. Each major polity was ruled by a k’uhul ajaw, or holy lord, who embodied intertwined aspects of religious and political authority. The hieroglyphic texts that adorned walls, furniture, and portable items in these centers of power provide specific information about the positions, roles, and meanings of the courts. Jackson uses these documents as keys to understanding Classic Maya political hierarchy and, specifically, the institution of the royal court. Within this context, she investigates the lives of the nobility and the participation of elites in court politics. By identifying particular individuals and their life stories, Jackson humanizes Maya society, showing how events resulted from the actions and choices of specific people. Jackson’s innovative portrayal of court membership provides a foundation for scholarship on the nature, functions, and responsibilities of Maya royal courts.
Author : Susan Milbrath
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292778511
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Star Gods of the Maya written by Susan Milbrath and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A prodigious work of unmatched interdisciplinary scholarship” on Maya astronomy and religion (Journal of Interdisciplinary History). Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Pre-Columbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples. Susan Milbrath opens the book with a discussion of modern Maya beliefs about astronomy, along with essential information on naked-eye observation. She devotes subsequent chapters to Pre-Columbian astronomical imagery, which she traces back through time, starting from the Colonial and Postclassic eras. She delves into many aspects of the Maya astronomical images, including the major astronomical gods and their associated glyphs, astronomical almanacs in the Maya codices and changes in the imagery of the heavens over time. This investigation yields new data and a new synthesis of information about the specific astronomical events and cycles recorded in Maya art and architecture. Indeed, it constitutes the first major study of the relationship between art and astronomy in ancient Maya culture. “Milbrath has given us a comprehensive reference work that facilitates access to a very broad and varied body of literature spanning several disciplines.” ―Isis “Destined to become a standard reference work on Maya archeoastronomy . . . Utterly comprehensive.” —Andrea Stone, Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Author : Meghan Rubenstein
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784915459
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Recent Investigations in the Puuc Region of Yucatán written by Meghan Rubenstein and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers focus on the history of the Puuc region, Yucatán, incorporating archaeological, architectural, epigraphic, and iconographic studies.
Author : John F. Harris
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9780924171307
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (713 download)
Download or read book A Resource Bibliography for the Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyph and New Maya Hieroglyph Readings written by John F. Harris and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1994-01-29 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Roth
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805399292
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Agent of Change written by Barbara Roth and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ash is an important and yet understudied aspect of ritual deposition in the archaeological record of North America. Ash has been found in a wide variety of contexts across many regions and often it is associated with rare or unusual objects or in contexts that suggest its use in the transition or transformation of houses and ritual features. Drawn from across the U.S. and Mesoamerica, the chapters in this volume explore the use, meanings, and cross-cultural patterns present in the use of ash. and highlight the importance of ash in ritual closure, social memory, and cultural transformation.
Author : Andrea Joyce Stone
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817311386
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Heart of Creation written by Andrea Joyce Stone and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers. The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or coauthor of more than 200 books or articles on the Maya, Schele served as the chief disseminator of knowledge to the general public about this ancient Mesoamerican culture, similar to the way in which Margaret Mead introduced anthropology and the people of Borneo to the English-speaking world. Twenty-five contributors offer scholarly writings on subjects ranging from the ritual function of public space at the Olmec site and the gardens of the Great Goddess at Teotihuacan to the understanding of Jupiter in Maya astronomy and the meaning of the water throne of Quirigua Zoomorph P. The workshops on Maya history and writing that Schele conducted in Guatemala and Mexico for the highland people, modern descendants of the Mayan civilization, are thoroughly addressed as is the phenomenon termed "Maya mania"—the explosive growth of interest in Maya epigraphy, iconography, astronomy, and cosmology that Schele stimulated. An appendix provides a bibliography of Schele's publications and a collection of Scheleana, written memories of "the Rabbit Woman" by some of her colleagues and students. Of interest to professionals as well as generalists, this collection will stand as a marker of the state of Mayan studies at the turn of the 21st century and as a tribute to the remarkable personality who guided a large part of that archaeological research for more than two decades.
Author : Alexander Parmington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107377870
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 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: In this book, Alexander Parmington examines how images, texts and architectural form controlled and channelled movement of particular sets of people through various precincts in Classic Maya cities. Using Palenque as a case study, this book analyses specific building groups and corresponding sculptures to provide insight into the hierarchical distribution and use of ritual and administrative space in temple and palace architecture. Identifying which spaces were the most accessible and most public, and which spaces were segregated and highly private, Dr Parmington demonstrates how sculptural, iconographic and hieroglyphic content varies considerably when found in public/common or private/elite space. Drawing on specific examples from the Classic Maya and other early civilisations, he demonstrates that by examining the intent in the distribution of architecture and art, the variation and function of the artistic themes represented in sculpture and other monumental works of art can be better understood.
Author : Edwin M. Shook
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692177
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Secrets in Stone written by Edwin M. Shook and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yokes, hachas, and palmas are three pre-Columbian art forms that occur in a specific region of Mexico and Central America and apparently have no exact counterparts anywhere else. This volume focuses on these carved stone objects which have puzzled art historians and archaeologists since the mid-19th century. The corpus of data presented here, consisting of photo documentation, identification, and interpretation of 661 sculptures, was assembled by the two authors over many years, beginning in the early 1940s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884021704
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (217 download)
Download or read book The Southeast Classic Maya Zone written by Elizabeth Hill Boone and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1988 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eithne B. Carlin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004173625
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Linguistics and Archaeology in the Americas written by Eithne B. Carlin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a state of the art overview of current linguistic and archaeological research from the Caribbean and Meso America, through Amazonia and the Andes to Argentina, ranging from historical comparative through descriptive and socio-linguistics to new discoveries in archaeological research.
