Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Memoirs. Vol. V. - Nos. 1 and 2
Author | : Teobert Maler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2017-08-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780649024261 |
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Author | : Teobert Maler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2017-08-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780649024261 |
Author | : Michael Edwin Kampen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004064003 |
Author | : Jeremy A. Sabloff |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780806138053 |
Gauging the impact of one scholar's contributions to modern archaeology
Author | : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Heather McKillop |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2004-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1576076970 |
Thanks to powerful innovations in archaeology and other types of historical research, we now have a picture of everyday life in the Mayan empire that turns the long-accepted conventional wisdom on its head. Ranging from the end of the Ice Age to the flourishing of Mayan culture in the first millennium to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, The Ancient Maya takes a fresh look at a culture that has long held the public's imagination. Originally thought to be peaceful and spiritual, the Mayans are now also known to have been worldly, bureaucratic, and violent. Debates and unanswered questions linger. Mayan expert Heather McKillop shows our current understanding of the Maya, explaining how interpretations of "dirt archaeology," hieroglyphic inscriptions, and pictorial pottery are used to reconstruct the lives of royalty, artisans, priests, and common folk. She also describes the innovative focus on the interplay of the people with their environments that has helped further unravel the mystery of the Mayans' rise and fall.
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Total Pages | : 886 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Copyright |
ISBN | : |
Includes Part 1A: Books
Author | : Pamela Hearne |
Publisher | : UPenn Museum of Archaeology |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780934718912 |
In 1940 the Museum sponsored excavations at the necropolis of Sitio Conte on the Pacific coastal plain 100 miles southwest of Panama City. The cemetery had been used by the local elite and their subordinates for over seven hundred years, until its abandonment during the tenth to twelfth centuries A.D. The focus is on Burial 11, whose main occupant was buried with fantastic gold objects. Included are essays on the excavations, the goldworking techniques, and the significance of the decorative motifs, as well as a catalogue of the gold objects. Illustrations include many color photographs along with archival photographs of the original excavations.
Author | : Jessica Joyce Christie |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2003-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292712448 |
Maya "palaces" have intrigued students of this ancient Mesoamerican culture since the early twentieth century, when scholars first applied the term "palace" to multi-room, gallery-like buildings set on low platforms in the centers of Maya cities. Who lived in these palaces? What types of ceremonial and residential activities took place there? How do the physical forms and spatial arrangement of the buildings embody Maya concepts of social organization and cosmology? This book brings together state-of-the-art data and analysis regarding the occupants, ritual and residential uses, and social and cosmological meanings of Maya palaces and elite residences. A multidisciplinary team of senior researchers reports on sites in Belize (Blue Creek), Western Honduras (Copan), the Peten (Tikal, Dos Pilas, Aguateca), and the Yucatan (Uxmal, Chichen-Itza, Dzibilchaltun, Yaxuna). Archaeologist contributors discuss the form of palace buildings and associated artifacts, their location within the city, and how some palaces related to landscape features. Their approach is complemented by art historical analyses of architectural sculpture, epigraphy, and ethnography. Jessica Joyce Christie concludes the volume by identifying patterns and commonalties that apply not only to the cited examples, but also to Maya architecture in general.
Author | : Elizabeth A. Newsome |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2001-09-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780292755727 |
"Based on a thorough analysis of the imagery and inscriptions of seven stelae erected in the Great Plaza at Copan, Honduras, by the Classic Period ruler 18-Rabbit-God K, this study argues that stelae were erected not only to support a ruler's temporal claims to power but more importantly to express the fundamental connection in Maya worldview between rulership and the cosmology inherent in their vision of cyclical time. After an overview of the archaeology and history of Copan and the reign and monuments of 18-Rabbit-God K, Elizabeth Newsome interprets the iconography and inscriptions on the stelae, illustrating the way they fulfilled a coordinated vision of the king's ceremonial role in Copan's period-ending rites. She also links their imagery to key Maya concepts about the origin of the universe, expressed in the cosmologies and mythic lore of ancient and living Maya peoples." "Because previous scholarship has never assigned all seven monuments to a single period or the patronage of one ruler, the uniqueness of Newsome's study lies in the way it explicates the overall meaning and function of the stela series with respect to the long-term activities and agendas of one king."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved