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The Inscriptions of Petén
Author | : Sylvanus Griswold Morley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Maya chronology |
ISBN | : |
The First Writing
Author | : Stephen D. Houston |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2004-12-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521838610 |
In this book, leading scholars in the field discuss and analyse the origins of ancient writing.
Chacs and Chiefs
Author | : Rosemary Sharp |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780884020998 |
The Inscriptions of Peten
Author | : Sylvanus G. Morley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1977-12-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780404162900 |
The Monuments and Inscriptions of Tikal--The Carved Monuments
Author | : Nicholas Jones |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1934536377 |
This study treats the entire corpus of stone and wood monuments from the Maya site of Tikal and lesser periphery locations. Each description includes details of provenience and condition. Every carved surface is illustrated by a standardized scale drawing, supplemented in almost every case by photographs.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1
Author | : Robert Wauchope |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 591 |
Release | : 2014-01-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1477306544 |
This is the first volume of the monumental Handbook of Middle American Indians, a definitive encyclopaedia of the environment, archaeology, ethnology, social anthropology, ethnohistory, linguistics, and physical anthropology of the native peoples of Mexico and Central America. The Handbook was published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). This volume of the Handbook was edited by Dr. Robert C. West (1913–2001), Boyd Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University, an outstanding authority on Latin America. He was formerly cultural geographer for the Smithsonian Institution. Included in this first volume are chapters written by leading authorities in various fields of the natural and social sciences that are concerned with the natural environment of Middle America, its role in the shaping of Indian cultures, the earliest primitive hunters of this area, the beginnings of agriculture, and the broad patterns of prehistoric civilizations there. There are articles on the geohistory and paleogeography of Middle America, its surface configuration and associated geology, hydrography, the American Mediterranean, oceanography and marine life along the Pacific coast, weather and climate, natural vegetation, the soils and their relation to the Indian peoples and cultures, fauna , the natural regions of Middle America, the primitive hunters, the food-gathering and incipient agricultural stage of prehistoric Middle America, origins of agriculture there, and the patterns of farming life and civilization. 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.
Emblem and State in the Classic Maya Lowlands
Author | : Joyce Marcus |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780884020660 |
Joyce Marcus reconstructs Classic Maya political organization through the use of evidence derived from epigraphy, settlement pattern surveys, and locational analysis. This study describes the development of a four-tiered settlement hierarchy and its subsequent collapse.