Archaeological Investigations Of The Northern Maya Highlands Guatemala
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Author | : Robert James Sharer |
Publisher | : UPenn Museum of Archaeology |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1987-01-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780934718592 |
Final report of the 1970-1974 research conducted in the Salama Valley, Baja Verapaz, and adjacent areas of the highlands of Guatemala. The volume presents the results of the first comprehensive study of northern highland preclassic occupation and cultural development in light of the question of highland-lowland interaction and its role in the growth of Maya civilization.
Author | : Margaret Sabom Bruchez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Annals of the Cakchiquels |
ISBN | : |
This dissertation reports findings of archaeological investigations conducted by Proyecto de Sololá in the Lake Atitlán basin in southwestern Guatemala. The study began as an analysis of an account of the Cakchiquel Maya's early settlement in the basin. The version of the tribe's beginnings appears as part of their narrative of sacred mythic origins transcribed at the time of the conquest in los anales de los Cakchiqueles. The tribe's mythic, legendary, and historical founding rites were considered to be an expression of, and therefore were used as a guide to, features in the sociological context. The archaeological study of cultural material site remains was used to determine the effects of the social organization upon the natural and social setting. Summarized are the systematic archaeological reconnaissance, surface surveys, excavations, and data analyses carried out along nine sq km of the northern rim, lake, and lakeshore region from 1993 through 1995. Highlighted are materials representing early Middle Preclassic to Late Preclassic traditional styles shared throughout a broad southeast highland region. Hypothesized is the partial reconstruction, based upon material remains, of the beginning of the ancient belief system used to legitimate the tribe's heritage.
Author | : Margaret Sabom Bruchez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Annals of the Cakchiquels |
ISBN | : |
This dissertation reports findings of archaeological investigations conducted by Proyecto de Sololá in the Lake Atitlán basin in southwestern Guatemala. The study began as an analysis of an account of the Cakchiquel Maya's early settlement in the basin. The version of the tribe's beginnings appears as part of their narrative of sacred mythic origins transcribed at the time of the conquest in los anales de los Cakchiqueles. The tribe's mythic, legendary, and historical founding rites were considered to be an expression of, and therefore were used as a guide to, features in the sociological context. The archaeological study of cultural material site remains was used to determine the effects of the social organization upon the natural and social setting. Summarized are the systematic archaeological reconnaissance, surface surveys, excavations, and data analyses carried out along nine sq km of the northern rim, lake, and lakeshore region from 1993 through 1995. Highlighted are materials representing early Middle Preclassic to Late Preclassic traditional styles shared throughout a broad southeast highland region. Hypothesized is the partial reconstruction, based upon material remains, of the beginning of the ancient belief system used to legitimate the tribe's heritage.
Author | : Brian D. Dillon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Takeshi Inomata |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This volume presents for the first time the detailed data and dramatic findings of Inomata's investigations of this Classic period second capital of the ancient Maya Petexbatun kingdom. As widely discussed in journals and the media, the autonomous Aguateca subproject of the Vanderbilt Petexbatun research recovered remarkable new evidence on the violent end of a great Maya center,. This monograph presents summaries and interpretations of the excavations and surveys, site maps, and recovered ceramics and artifacts, as well as a wide range of applied analyses of this data. The sprawling defensive fortifications of this center, its already formidable natural location, and its final destruction and burning represent one of the most remarkable sets of evidence of the collapse of a Classic Maya kingdom. Inomata presents the evidence on Aguateca and its sudden end, and the implications of his findings for theories of the end of Classic Maya civilization in the Petexbatun. VIMA Series #3
Author | : Norman Hammond |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292762577 |
Embracing a wide range of research, this book offers various views on the intellectual history of Maya archaeology and ethnohistory and the processes operating in the rise and fall of Maya civilization. The fourteen studies were selected from those presented at the Second Cambridge Symposium on Recent Research in Mesoamerican Archaeology and are presented in three major sections. The first of these deals with the application of theory, both anthropological and historical, to the great civilization of the Classic Maya, which flourished in the Yucatan, Guatemala, and Belize during the first millennium A.D. The structural remains of the Classic Period have impressed travelers and archaeologists for over a century, and aspects of the development and decline of this strange and brilliant tropical forest culture are examined here in the light of archaeological research. The second section presents the results of field research ranging from the Highlands of Mexico east to Honduras and north into the Lowland heart of Maya civilization, and iconographic study of excavated material. The third section covers the ethnohistoric approach to archaeology, the conjunction of material and documentary evidence. Early European documents are used to illuminate historic Maya culture. This section includes transcriptions of previously unpublished archival material. Although not formally linked beyond their common field of inquiry, the essays here offer a conspectus of late-twentieth century Maya research and a series of case histories of the work of some of the leading scholars in the field.
Author | : Brett A. Houk |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2019-12-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813057345 |
This volume brings together a wide spectrum of new approaches to ancient Maya studies in an innovative exploration of how the Preclassic and Classic Maya shaped their world. Moving beyond the towering temples and palaces typically associated with the Maya civilization, contributors present unconventional examples of monumental Maya landscapes. Featuring studies from across the central Maya lowlands, Belize, and the northern and central Maya highlands and spanning over 10,000 years of human occupation in the region, these chapters show how the word “monumental” can be used to describe natural and constructed landscapes, political and economic landscapes, and ritual and sacred landscapes. Examples include a massive system of aqueducts and canals at the Kaminaljuyu site, a vast arena designed for public spectacle at Chan Chich, and even the complex realms of Maya cosmology as represented by the ritual cave at Las Cuevas. By including physical, conceptual, and symbolic ways monumentality pervaded ancient Maya culture, this volume broadens traditional understandings of how the Maya interacted with their environment and provides exciting analytical perspectives to guide future study. A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Author | : Gordon R. Willey |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 1099 |
Release | : 1965-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1477306552 |
Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica comprises the second and third volumes in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). The volume editor is Gordon R. Willey (1913–2002), Bowditch Professor of Mexican and Central American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Volumes Two and Three, with more than 700 illustrations, contain archaeological syntheses, followed by special articles on settlement patterns, architecture, funerary practices, ceramics, artifacts, sculpture, painting, figurines, jades, textiles, minor arts, calendars, hieroglyphic writing, and native societies at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Guatemala highlands, the southern Maya lowlands, the Pacific coast of Guatemala, Chiapas, the upper Grijalva basin, southern Veracruz, Tabasco, and Oaxaca. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.
Author | : Robert Wauchope |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1099 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9781477306567 |
Author | : Julia Guernsey |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Indian sculpture |
ISBN | : 9780884023647 |
This volume considers the significance of stone monuments in Preclassic Mesoamerica. By placing sculptures in their cultural, historical, social, political, religious, and cognitive contexts, the seventeen contributors utilize archaeological and art historical methods to understand the origins, growth, and spread of civilization in Middle America.