Antropología de la eternidad
Author: Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas. Mesa Redonda Internacional
Publisher: UNAM
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9789703223015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas. Mesa Redonda Internacional
Publisher: UNAM
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9789703223015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bruno Forte
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9788430113286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Emilio Komar
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9789872104702
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Vera Tiesler
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-02-15
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0387488715
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. The editors bring together an international group of contributors from the area studied: archaeologists as well as anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, art historians and bioarchaeologists. This interdisciplinary approach provides a comprehensive perspective on these sites as well as the material culture and biological evidence found there
Author: Scott R. Hutson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-06-17
Total Pages: 983
ISBN-13: 1351029568
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Maya World brings together over 60 authors, representing the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and ethnography, who explore cutting-edge research on every major facet of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world. The Maya world, which covers Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador, contains over a hundred ancient sites that are open to tourism, eight of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and many thousands more that have been dug or await investigation. In addition to captivating the lay public, the ancient Maya have attracted scores of major interdisciplinary research expeditions and hundreds of smaller projects going back to the 19th century, making them one of the best-known ancient cultures. The Maya World explores their renowned writing system, towering stone pyramids, exquisitely painted murals, and elaborate funerary tombs as well as their creative agricultural strategies, complex social, economic, and political relationships, widespread interactions with other societies, and remarkable cultural resilience in the face of historical ruptures. This is an invaluable reference volume for scholars of the ancient Maya, including archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists.
Author: Vera Tiesler
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0816537313
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excavations of Maya burial vaults at Palenque, Mexico, half a century ago revealed what was then the most extraordinary tomb finding of the pre-Columbian world; its discovery has been crucial to an understanding of the dynastic history and ideology of the ancient Maya. This volume communicates the broad scope of applied interdisciplinary research conducted on the Pakal remains to provide answers to old disputes over the accuracy of both skeletal and epigraphic studies, along with new questions in the field of Maya dynastic research. A benchmark in biological anthropology that presents an updated study of a well-known personage, the volume also offers innovative approaches to the biocultural and interdisciplinary re-creation of Maya dynastic history.
Author: Edeltraud Aspöck
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2020-07-31
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 1789254434
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Archaeologists excavating burials often find that they are not the first to disturb the remains of the dead. Graves from many periods frequently show signs that others have been digging and have moved or taken away parts of the original funerary assemblage. Displaced bones and artefacts, traces of pits, and damage to tombs or coffins can all provide clues about post-burial activities. The last two decades have seen a rapid rise in interest in the study of post-depositional practices in graves, which has now developed into a new subfield within mortuary archaeology. This follows a long tradition of neglect, with disturbed graves previously regarded as interesting only to the degree they revealed evidence of the original funerary deposit. This book explores past human interactions with mortuary deposits, delving into the different ways graves and human remains were approached by people in the past and the reasons that led to such encounters. The primary focus of the volume is on cases of unexpected interference with individual graves soon after burial: re-encounters with human remains not anticipated by those who performed the funerary rites and constructed the tombs. However, a first step is always to distinguish these from natural and accidental processes, and methodological approaches are a major theme of discussion. Interactions with the remains of the dead are explored in eleven chapters ranging from the New Kingdom of Egypt to Viking Age Norway and from Bronze Age Slovakia to the ancient Maya. Each discusses cases of re-entries into graves, including desecration, tomb re-use, destruction of grave contents, as well as the removal of artefacts and human remains for reasons from material gain to commemoration, symbolic appropriation, ancestral rites, political chicanery, and retrieval of relics. The introduction presents many of the methodological issues which recur throughout the contributions, as this is a developing area with new approaches being applied to analyze post-depositional processes in graves.
Author: Travis W. Stanton
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2014-10-10
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 1784910090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume was conceived to provide a forum for Mexican and foreign scholars to publish new data and interpretations on the archaeology of the northern Maya lowlands, specifically the State of Yucatan.
Author: Richard J. Chacon
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-08-21
Total Pages: 694
ISBN-13: 0387483039
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This edited volume mainly focuses on the practice of taking and displaying various body parts as trophies in both North and South America. The editors and contributors (which include Native Peoples from both continents) examine the evidence and causes of Amerindian trophy taking. Additionally, they present objectively and discuss dispassionately the topic of human proclivity toward ritual violence. This book fills the gap in literature on this subject.
Author: Linda R. Manzanilla
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0915703718
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