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Author | : David Drew |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2002-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520234581 |
An in-depth discussion of the latest archeological findings about the Mayan civilization explores the sophistication of this long-misunderstood culture and addressing such issues as why the civilization disappeared, why they built cities in jungles, and more.
Author | : Dennis Tedlock |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2011-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520271378 |
A chronological survey of Mayan literature, covering two thousand years, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to later works using the Roman alphabet.
Author | : Simon Martin |
Publisher | : Thames and Hudson |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2008-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"The ideal reference on Maya archaeology."--Science News
Author | : Linda Schele |
Publisher | : William Morrow |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. Now, two central figures in the massive effort to decode the glyphs, Linda Schele and David Freidel, make this history available for the first time in all its detail. A Forest of Kings is the story of Maya kingship, from the beginning of its institution and the first great pyramid builders two thousand years ago to the decline of Maya civilization and its destruction by the Spanish. Here the great historic rulers of Precolumbian civilization come to life again with the decipherment of the writing. At its height, Maya civilization flourished under great kings like Shield-Jaguar, who ruled for over sixty years, expanding his kingdom and building some of the most impressive works of architecture in the ancient world. Long placed on a mist-shrouded pedestal as austere, peaceful stargazers, the Maya elites are now known to have been the rulers or populous, aggressive city-states. Hailed as "a Rosetta Stone of Maya civilization" (Brian M. Fagan, author of People of the Earth), A Forest of Kings is "a must for interested readers," says Evon Vogt, professor of anthropology at Harvard University.
Author | : William L. Fash |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1993-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780500277089 |
Copan in modern Honduras was one of the great cities of the Classic Maya. Explorers found ruined temples, plazas, and more hieroglyphic inscriptions and sculpted monuments than in any other site in the New World. But the stones were silent, the script undeciphered.
Author | : Lewis Spence |
Publisher | : New York : AMS Press |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arthur G Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1986-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780685175132 |
Author | : Arthur G. Miller |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Simon Martin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2020-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108483887 |
With new readings of ancient texts, Ancient Maya Politics unlocks the long-enigmatic political system of the Classic Maya.
Author | : Lisa J. Lucero |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2009-07-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292778236 |
In the southern Maya lowlands, rainfall provided the primary and, in some areas, the only source of water for people and crops. Classic Maya kings sponsored elaborate public rituals that affirmed their close ties to the supernatural world and their ability to intercede with deities and ancestors to ensure an adequate amount of rain, which was then stored to provide water during the four-to-five-month dry season. As long as the rains came, Maya kings supplied their subjects with water and exacted tribute in labor and goods in return. But when the rains failed at the end of the Classic period (AD 850-950), the Maya rulers lost both their claim to supernatural power and their temporal authority. Maya commoners continued to supplicate gods and ancestors for rain in household rituals, but they stopped paying tribute to rulers whom the gods had forsaken. In this paradigm-shifting book, Lisa Lucero investigates the central role of water and ritual in the rise, dominance, and fall of Classic Maya rulers. She documents commoner, elite, and royal ritual histories in the southern Maya lowlands from the Late Preclassic through the Terminal Classic periods to show how elites and rulers gained political power through the public replication and elaboration of household-level rituals. At the same time, Lucero demonstrates that political power rested equally on material conditions that the Maya rulers could only partially control. Offering a new, more nuanced understanding of these dual bases of power, Lucero makes a compelling case for spiritual and material factors intermingling in the development and demise of Maya political complexity.