Download or read book The Ancient Maya of Mexico written by Geoffrey E Braswell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The archaeological sites of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula are among the most visited ancient cities of the Americas. Archaeologists have recently made great advances in our understanding of the social and political milieu of the northern Maya lowlands. However, such advances have been under-represented in both scholarly and popular literature until now. 'The Ancient Maya of Mexico' presents the results of new and important archaeological, epigraphic, and art historical research in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. Ranging across the Middle Preclassic to the Modern periods, the volume explores how new archaeological data has transformed our understanding of Maya history. 'The Ancient Maya of Mexico' will be invaluable to students and scholars of archaeology and anthropology, and all those interested in the society, rituals and economic organisation of the Maya region.
Download or read book Prehistoric Mesoamerica written by Richard E. W. Adams and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date overview of Mesoamerican cultures from early prehistoric times through the fall of the Aztec Empire, Prehistoric Mesoamerica, Third Edition will be useful and appealing to readers interested in Mesoamerican art, society, politics, and intellectual achievement.
Download or read book Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians Volume 1 written by Victoria Reifler Bricker and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the most valuable resource ever produced for those involved in the study of Mesoamerica. When it was determined in 1978 that the Handbook should be updated periodically, Victoria Reifler Bricker, well-known cultural anthropologist, was selected to be series editor. This first volume of the Supplement is devoted to the dramatic changes that have taken place in the field of archaeology. The volume editor, Jeremy A. Sabloff, has gathered together detailed reports from the directors of many of the most significant archaeological projects of the mid-twentieth century in Mesoamerica, along with discussions of three topics of general interest (the rise of sedentary life, the evolution of complex culture, and the rise of cities).
Download or read book Maya E Groups written by David A. Freidel and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As complex societies emerged in the Maya lowlands during the first millennium BCE, so did stable communities focused around public squares and the worship of a divine ruler tied to a Maize God cult. “E Groups,” central to many of these settlements, are architectural complexes: typically, a long platform supporting three struc¬tures and facing a western pyramid across a formal plaza. Aligned with the movements of the sun, E Groups have long been interpreted as giant calendrical devices crucial to the rise of Maya civilization. This volume presents new archaeological data to reveal that E Groups were constructed earlier than previously thought. In fact, they are the earliest identifiable architectural plan at many Maya settlements. More than just astronomical observatories or calendars, E Groups were a key element of community organization, urbanism, and identity in the heart of the Maya lowlands. They served as gathering places for emerging communities and centers of ritual; they were the very first civic-religious public architecture in the Maya lowlands. Investigating a wide variety of E Group sites—including some of the most famous like the Mundo Perdido in Tikal and the hitherto little known complex at Chan, as well as others in Ceibal, El Palmar, Cival, Calakmul, Caracol, Xunantunich, Yaxnohcah, Yaxuná, and San Bartolo—this volume pieces together the development of social and political complexity in ancient Maya civilization. James Aimers | Anthony F. Aveni | Jamie J. Awe | Boris Beltran | M. Kathryn Brown | Arlen F. Chase | Diane Z. Chase | Anne S. Dowd | James Doyle | Francisco Estrada-Belli | David A. Freidel | Julie A. Hoggarth | Takeshi Inomata | Patricia A. Mcanany | Susan Milbrath | Jerry Murdock | Kathryn Reese-Taylor | Prudence M. Rice | Cynthia Robin | Franco D. Rossi | Jeremy A. Sabloff | William A. Saturno | Travis W. Stanton A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Download or read book The Hydraulic System of Uxul written by Nicolaus Seefeld and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research seeks to close an essential research gap – the understanding of the water management strategies of the Maya in pre-Hispanic times. It focuses on the archaeological investigation of the hydraulic system of Uxul, a medium-sized Maya centre in the south of the state of Campeche, Mexico.
Download or read book The Southeast Classic Maya Zone written by Elizabeth Hill Boone and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1988 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dwelling and Subjectification at the Ancient Urban Center of Chunchucmil Yucatan Mexico written by Scott Randolph Hutson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Woody Vegetation of Dzibilchaltun a Maya Archaeological Site in Northwest Yucat n Mexico written by Leonard B. Thien and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Warfare and the Fall of a Fortified Center written by Takeshi Inomata and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Journal of Mesoamerican Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Artifacts of Dzibilchaltun Yucatan Mexico written by Jennifer T. Taschek and published by Tulane University. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "Description and classification of a variety of artifact types: shell, bone, pottery, wood, jadeite, and other fine stone jewelry; copper bells; ceramic figurines, stamps, and musical instruments; bone and antler tools; basketry. Emphasizes excavation contexts and associations and their interpretive implications. Includes a phase-by-phase chronological summary"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Download or read book Research Paper Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians Volume 1 written by Jeremy A. Sabloff and published by Austin : University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the most valuable resource ever produced for those involved in the study of Mesoamerica. When it was determined in 1978 that the Handbook should be updated periodically, Victoria Reifler Bricker, well-known cultural anthropologist, was selected to be series editor. This first volume of the Supplement is devoted to the dramatic changes that have taken place in the field of archaeology. The volume editor, Jeremy A. Sabloff, has gathered together detailed reports from the directors of many of the most significant archaeological projects of the mid-twentieth century in Mesoamerica, along with discussions of three topics of general interest (the rise of sedentary life, the evolution of complex culture, and the rise of cities).
Download or read book Publication written by Edward Wyllys Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Excavations at Dzibilchaltun Yucatan Mexico written by Edward Wyllys Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research Reports National Geographic Society written by National Geographic Society (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts and reviews of research and exploration authorized under grants from the National Geographic Society.
Download or read book Common Knowledge written by Christian Isendahl and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
