The Maya and Their Neighbors
Author: Clarence L. Hay
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 658
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Clarence L. Hay
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 658
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Clarence Hay
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
Published: 1979-01-01
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ISBN-13: 9780844656564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Matthew Williams Stirling
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780884020981
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Twenty-one papers on the Olmec were written for this volume in tribute to Matthew W. Stirling, "pioneer archaeologist, ethnologist, and the discoverer of the Olmec civilization."
Author: Geoffrey E Braswell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-16
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1317756088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The ancient Maya created one of the most studied and best-known civilizations of the Americas. Nevertheless, Maya civilization is often considered either within a vacuum, by sub-region and according to modern political borders, or with reference to the most important urban civilizations of central Mexico. Seldom if ever are the Maya and their Central American neighbors of El Salvador and Honduras considered together, despite the fact that they engaged in mutually beneficial trade, intermarried, and sometimes made war on each other. The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors seeks to fill this lacuna by presenting original research on the archaeology of the whole of the Maya area (from Yucatan to the Maya highlands of Guatemala), western Honduras, and El Salvador. With a focus on settlement pattern analyses, architectural studies, and ceramic analyses, this ground breaking book provides a broad view of this important relationship allowing readers to understand ancient perceptions about the natural and built environment, the role of power, the construction of historical narrative, trade and exchange, multiethnic interaction in pluralistic frontier zones, the origins of settled agricultural life, and the nature of systemic collapse.
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written as a companion to The Maya and their neighbors : essays on middle American anthropology and archaeology, this book of essays commemorates Alfred M. Tozzer and expands on ideas put forth in the earlier volume.
Author: John Eric Sidney Thompson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780806122472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this volume, a distinguished Maya scholar seeks to correlate data from colonial writings and observations of the modern Indian with archaeological information in order to extend and clarify the panorama of Maya culture.
Author: John S. Henderson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780801482847
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Theirs was one of the few complex societies to emerge in and to adapt successfully to a tropical-forest environment. Their architecture, sculpture, and painting were sophisticated and compellingly beautiful.
Author: Justine M. Shaw
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2005-11
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780816524419
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →MexicoÕs southern state of Quintana Roo is often perceived by archaeologists as a blank spot on the map of the Maya world, a region generally assumed to hold little of interest thanks to its relative isolation from the rest of Mexico. But salvage archaeology required by recent development along the ÒMaya Riviera,Ó along with a suite of other ongoing and recent research projects, have shown that the region was critical in connecting coastal and inland zones, and it is now viewed as an important area in its own right from Preclassic through post-contact times. The first volume devoted to the archaeology of Quintana Roo, this book reveals a long tradition of exploration and discovery in the region and an increasingly rich recent history of study. Covering a time span from the Formative period through the early twentieth century, it offers a sampling of recent and ongoing research by Mexican, North American, and European archaeologists. Each of the chapters helps to integrate sites within and beyond the borders of the modern state, inviting readers to consider Quintana Roo as part of an interacting Maya world whose boundaries were entirely different from todayÕs. In taking in the range of the region, the authors consider studies in the northern part of the state resulting from modern development around Cancœn; the mid-state sites of Muyil and YoÕokop, both of which witnessed continual occupations from the Middle Preclassic through the Postclassic; and new data from such southern sites as Cerros, Lagartera, and Chichmuul. The contributions consider such subjects as ceramic controversies, settlement shifts, site planning strategies, epigraphic and iconographic materials, the impact of recent coastal development, and the interplay between ancient, historic, and modern use of the region. Many of the chapters confirm the region as a cultural corridor between Cob‡ and the southern lowland centers and address demographic shifts of the Terminal Classic through Postclassic periods, while others help elucidate some of Peter HarrisonÕs Uaymil Survey work of the 1970s. Quintana Roo Archaeology unfolds a rich archaeological record spanning 2,500 years, depicting the depth and breadth of modern archaeological studies within the state. It is an important touchstone for Maya and Mesoamerican archaeologists, demonstrating the shifting web of connections between Quintanarooense sites and their neighbors, and confirming the need to integrate this region into a broader understanding of the ancient Maya.
Author: Muriel Porter Weaver
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-16
Total Pages: 760
ISBN-13: 1315418916
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Third Edition of this highly successful introduction to the archaeology of Mesoamerica includes full coverage of the Aztec and Maya areas in one volume. Beginning with the settling of the New World and continuing through the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in 1521, this completely updated textbook includes the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphs, the dynamic history of the Maya, the new royal tomb excavated at Copan, Honduras, important new discoveries at Rio Azul and Naj Tunich in Guatemala, and Caracol in Belize, ritual sacrifices on a massive scale revealed at Teotihuacan in central Mexico, and new material from Tula (Toltec capitol) and from the heart of Mexico City.