Download or read book A Sculptured Vase from Guatemala Volume 1 6 written by Marshall Howard Saville and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...setting, as the imagination may suggest. No native interpretation of its symbolism even has been hitherto sought. And so its meaning rests solely upon what appears to be the idea of friendship, indicated by the two human outlines affectionately holding hands. As such this interesting and impressive memorial stands again as a document unaffixed to any known event. The circumstances making it necessary to state this about so famous and valuable a document may naturally seem regrettable. And even more so is the fact that other belts known by historical reference to have been placed in the hands of Colonial authorities by emissaries of the eastern tribes have neither been kept in the colony, nor is their whereabouts known. One may well wonder what has become of the thirty-two belts of wampum exhibited by the Delawares to the Governor of Pennsylvania about the middle of the eighteenth century, on the occasion of a call upon him on their way to Onondaga. No other belts were even known to be in existence from any source as early as that attributed to the Penn wampum belt until the opportunity arrived for Mr. Hendricks to acquire for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, two more belts whose derivation is undoubtedly from the same source. These constitute the THE PENN WAMPUM BELTS subject matter of the study which we were invited to make. The outcome is forthwith presented in this paper--the feeble attempt at so late a date, when the associations have been forgotten, to bring them forth as memorials, in a double sense. The general tradition associated with these two later Penn belts seems to coincide with that of the first treaty belt previously mentioned. The three belts may accordingly be regarded as a group of documents in close...
Download or read book A Sculptured Vase from Guatemala written by HardPress and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Archaeological Researches in Yucatan written by Edward Herbert Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art and Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ceramic Sequence at Uaxactun Guatemala written by Robert Eliot Smith and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya written by Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This nuanced account explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers an important reexamination of the mid-16th-century Popol Vuh, long considered an authoritative text, which is better understood as one among many crucial sources for the interpretation of ancient Maya art and myth. Using materials gathered across Mesoamerica, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos bridges the gap between written texts and artistic representations, identifying key mythical subjects and uncovering their variations in narratives and visual depictions. Central characters—including a secluded young goddess, a malevolent grandmother, a dead father, and the young gods who became the sun and the moon—are identified in pottery, sculpture, mural painting, and hieroglyphic inscriptions. Highlighting such previously overlooked topics as sexuality and generational struggles, this beautifully illustrated book paves the way for a new understanding of Maya myths and their lavish expression in ancient art.
Download or read book Publication written by Robert Eliot Smith and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras Guatemala written by Megan E. O'Neil and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now shrouded in Guatemalan jungle, the ancient Maya city of Piedras Negras flourished between the sixth and ninth centuries, when its rulers erected monumental limestone sculptures carved with hieroglyphic texts and images of themselves and family members, advisers, and captives. In Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, Megan E. O’Neil offers new ways to understand these stelae, altars, and panels by exploring how ancient Maya people interacted with them. These monuments, considered sacred, were one of the community’s important forms of cultural and religious expression. Stelae may have held the essence of rulers they commemorated, and the objects remained loci for reverence of those rulers after they died. Using a variety of evidence,O’Neil examines how the forms, compositions, and contexts of the sculptures invited people to engage with them and the figures they embodied looks at these monuments not as inert bearers of images but as palpable presences that existed in real space at specific historical moments. Her analysis brings to the fore the material and affective force of these powerful objects that were seen, touched, and manipulated in the past. O’Neil investigates the monuments not only at the moment of their creation but also in later years and shows how they changed over time. She argues that the relationships among sculptures of different generations were performed in processions, through which ancient Maya people integrated historical dialogues and ancestral commemoration into the landscape. With the help of more than 160 illustrations, O’Neil reveals these sculptures’ continuing life histories, which in the past century have included their fragmentation and transformation into commodities sold on the international art market. Shedding light on modern-day transposition and display of these ancient monuments, O’Neil’s study contributes to ongoing discussions of cultural patrimony.
Download or read book Palaces and Courtly Culture in Ancient Mesoamerica written by Julie Nehammer Knub and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-01-19 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects eight recent and innovative studies spanning the breadth of Mesoamerica, from the Early Classic metropolis of Teotihuacan, to Tenochtitlan, the Late Postclassic capital of the Aztec, and from the arid central Mexican highlands in the west to the humid Maya lowlands in the east.
Download or read book Catalogue written by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Idea of Writing written by Alexander J. de Voogt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when they are used to represent loanwords, solve problems of polysemy or when they are adapted to be used for another language. The approaches from different academic traditions provide a varied but expert account.
Download or read book Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya written by Andrew K. Scherer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the tombs of the elite to the graves of commoners, mortuary remains offer rich insights into Classic Maya society. In Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul, the anthropological archaeologist and bioarchaeologist Andrew K. Scherer explores the broad range of burial practices among the Maya of the Classic period (AD 250–900), integrating information gleaned from his own fieldwork with insights from the fields of iconography, epigraphy, and ethnography to illuminate this society’s rich funerary traditions. Scherer’s study of burials along the Usumacinta River at the Mexican-Guatemalan border and in the Central Petén region of Guatemala—areas that include Piedras Negras, El Kinel, Tecolote, El Zotz, and Yaxha—reveals commonalities and differences among royal, elite, and commoner mortuary practices. By analyzing skeletons containing dental and cranial modifications, as well as the adornments of interred bodies, Scherer probes Classic Maya conceptions of body, wellness, and the afterlife. Scherer also moves beyond the body to look at the spatial orientation of the burials and their integration into the architecture of Maya communities. Taking a unique interdisciplinary approach, the author examines how Classic Maya deathways can expand our understanding of this society’s beliefs and traditions, making Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya an important step forward in Mesoamerican archeology.
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Download or read book Handbook of Middle American Indians Volumes 2 and 3 written by Robert Wauchope and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 1099 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
