Janaab Pakal De Palenque

Author : Vera Tiesler,Andrea Cucina
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816537310

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Janaab' Pakal of Palenque by Vera Tiesler,Andrea Cucina Pdf

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 : Vera Tiesler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000586275

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The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology by Vera Tiesler Pdf

This volume brings together a range of contributors with different and hybrid academic backgrounds to explore, through bioarchaeology, the past human experience in the territories that span Mesoamerica. This handbook provides systematic bioarchaeological coverage of skeletal research in the ancient Mesoamericas. It offers an integrated collection of engrained, bioculturally embedded explorations of relevant and timely topics, such as population shifts, lifestyles, body concepts, beauty, gender, health, foodways, social inequality, and violence. The additional treatment of new methodologies, local cultural settings, and theoretic frames rounds out the scope of this handbook. The selection of 36 chapter contributions invites readers to engage with the human condition in ancient and not-so-ancient Mesoamerica and beyond. The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology is addressed to an audience of Mesoamericanists, students, and researchers in bioarchaeology and related fields. It serves as a comprehensive reference for courses on Mesoamerica, bioarchaeology, and Native American studies.

Author : Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173030894605

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The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal by Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos Pdf

Takes up anew the riddles within a number of Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions first recognised by Floyd Lounsbury. Gerardo Aldana unpacks these mathematical riddles using an approach grounded in a reading of the texts made possible by recent advances in decipherment. Using a history of science methodology, he expands upon (and sometimes questions) the foundational work of archaeoastronomers. Aldana follows three lines of investigation: a reading of the hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Classic period (ad250-900), mathematical analysis to recover Classic Maya astronomical practice, and a historiography of Maya astronomy. During troubled times in Palenque, Aldana contends, Kan Balam II devised a means to preserve the legitimacy of his ruling dynasty. He celebrated a re-creation of the city as a contemporary analogue of a mythical Creation on three levels: monumental construction for a public audience, artistic patronage for an elite audience, and a secret mathematical astronomical language only for rulers-elect. Discussing all of these efforts, Aldana focuses on the recovery of the secret language and its historical context.

Author : Vera Tiesler,Andrea Cucina
Publisher : UNAM
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Human remains (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9703214894

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Janaab' Pakal de Palenque by Vera Tiesler,Andrea Cucina Pdf

Author : Élodie Dupey García,María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816538447

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Painting the Skin by Élodie Dupey García,María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual Pdf

Mesoamerican communities past and present are characterized by their strong inclination toward color and their expert use of the natural environment to create dyes and paints. In pre-Hispanic times, skin was among the preferred surfaces on which to apply coloring materials. Archaeological research and historical and iconographic evidence show that, in Mesoamerica, the human body—alive or dead—received various treatments and procedures for coloring it. Painting the Skin brings together exciting research on painted skins in Mesoamerica. Chapters explore the materiality, uses, and cultural meanings of the colors applied to a multitude of skins, including bodies, codices made of hide and vegetal paper, and even building “skins.” Contributors offer physicochemical analysis and compare compositions, manufactures, and attached meanings of pigments and colorants across various social and symbolic contexts and registers. They also compare these Mesoamerican colors with those used in other ancient cultures from both the Old and New Worlds. This cross-cultural perspective reveals crucial similarities and differences in the way cultures have painted on skins of all types. Examining color in Mesoamerica broadens understandings of Native religious systems and world views. Tracing the path of color use and meaning from pre-Columbian times to the present allows for the study of the preparation, meanings, social uses, and thousand-year origins of the coloring materials used by today’s Indigenous peoples. Contributors: María Isabel Álvarez Icaza Longoria Christine Andraud Bruno Giovanni Brunetti David Buti Davide Domenici Élodie Dupey García Tatiana Falcón Álvarez Anne Genachte-Le Bail Fabrice Goubard Aymeric Histace Patricia Horcajada Campos Stephen Houston Olivia Kindl Bertrand Lavédrine Linda R. Manzanilla Naim Anne Michelin Costanza Miliani Virgina E. Miller Sélim Natahi Fabien Pottier Patricia Quintana Owen Franco D. Rossi Antonio Sgamellotti Vera Tiesler Aurélie Tournié María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual Cristina Vidal Lorenzo

Author : Gerardo Aldana
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607320715

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The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal by Gerardo Aldana Pdf

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Orthography -- Names -- Calendrics -- Hieroglyphic Script -- Introduction -- 1: New Life at B'aakal -- 2: Recovering Maya Astronomy -- 3: Constructing Portals -- 4: Errors and Identities -- 5: The Public Face of Re-Creation -- 6: Re-Creation Through K'awiilian Astronomy -- 7: Zuyuathan: Secret Knowledge and the Maintenance of Power -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

Author : Vera Tiesler,María Cecilia Lozada
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826359643

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Social Skins of the Head by Vera Tiesler,María Cecilia Lozada Pdf

The meanings of ritualized head treatments among ancient Mesoamerican and Andean peoples is the subject of this book, the first overarching coverage of an important subject. Heads are sources of power that protect, impersonate, emulate sacred forces, distinguish, or acquire identity within the native world. The essays in this book examine these themes in a wide array of indigenous head treatments, including facial cosmetics and hair arrangements, permanent cranial vault and facial modifications, dental decorations, posthumous head processing, and head hunting. They offer new insights into native understandings of beauty, power, age, gender, and ethnicity. The contributors are experts from such diverse fields as skeletal biology, archaeology, aesthetics, forensics, taphonomy, and art history.

Author : Jesús Ariel Aguirre
Publisher : Editorial Autores de Argentina
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789878741611

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The War of the Angels by Jesús Ariel Aguirre Pdf

A mysterious object has been stolen from the British Museum. A group of religious fanatics intends to use it to give life to an evil creature, using an old lost language, that of angels. Adams, a young priest, together with the old chaplain Martin, will seek the help of Professor Thomas Dee, who knows Enochian, a language created by his great-great-grandfather John Dee. In search of a forbidden book, they will begin this adventure that will take them through Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Russia, Turkey, Mexico and Antarctica itself. Following in the footsteps of Lovecraft and his Myths, they will seek the answer in the Necronomicon and other Grimoires that will teach them to close the evil portal. They will come across characters like Nostradamus, Rasputin, Alice Crowley, Van Gogh and Merlin. They will also delve into the mysteries of Kabbalah and Alchemy. They will analyze the Crusades, the Holy Inquisition, the Cathars and the Essenes. Only the Angels will be able to help them with their difficult mission that will take them through great libraries and unveil the mystery of the great Cathedrals.

Author : Vera Tiesler,Andrea Cucina,Travis W. Stanton,David A. Freidel
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816532643

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Before Kukulkán by Vera Tiesler,Andrea Cucina,Travis W. Stanton,David A. Freidel Pdf

"A significant look at Maya life prior to Chichén Itzá during the Classic Period in the Yucatán"--Provided by publisher.

Author : M. Anne Katzenberg,Anne L. Grauer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119151623

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Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton by M. Anne Katzenberg,Anne L. Grauer Pdf

An Indispensable Resource on Advanced Methods of Analysis of Human Skeletal and Dental Remains in Archaeological and Forensic Contexts Now in its third edition, Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton has become a key reference for bioarchaeologists, human osteologists, and paleopathologists throughout the world. It builds upon basic skills to provide the foundation for advanced scientific analyses of human skeletal remains in cultural, archaeological, and theoretical contexts. This new edition features updated coverage of topics including histomorphometry, dental morphology, stable isotope methods, and ancient DNA, as well as a number of new chapters on paleopathology. It also covers bioarchaeological ethics, taphonomy and the nature of archaeological assemblages, biomechanical analyses of archaeological human skeletons, and more. Fully updated and revised with new material written by leading researchers in the field Includes many case studies to demonstrate application of methods of analysis Offers valuable information on contexts, methods, applications, promises, and pitfalls Covering the latest advanced methods and techniques for analyzing skeletal and dental remains from archaeological discoveries, Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton is a trusted text for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals in human osteology, bioarchaeology, and paleopathology.

Author : Megan E. O’Neil
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789145519

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The Maya by Megan E. O’Neil Pdf

An illuminating look at the myriad communities who have engaged with the ancient Maya over the centuries. This book reveals how the ancient Maya—and their buildings, ideas, objects, and identities—have been perceived, portrayed, and exploited over five hundred years in the Americas, Europe, and beyond. Engaging in interdisciplinary analysis, the book summarizes ancient Maya art and history from the preclassical period to the Spanish invasion, as well as the history of outside engagement with the ancient Maya, from Spanish invaders in the sixteenth century to later explorers and archaeologists, taking in scientific literature, visual arts, architecture, world’s fairs, and Indigenous activism. It also looks at the decipherment of Maya inscriptions, Maya museum exhibitions and artists’ responses, and contemporary Maya people’s engagements with their ancestral past. Featuring the latest research, this book will interest scholars as well as general readers who wish to know more about this ancient, fascinating culture.

Author : J. Grant Stauffer,Bretton T. Giles,Shawn P. Lambert
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789258462

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Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas by J. Grant Stauffer,Bretton T. Giles,Shawn P. Lambert Pdf

This volume examines how pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos and iteratively modeled it through the creation of particular objects and places. It emphasizes that American societies did this to materialize overarching models and templates for the shape and scope of the cosmos, the working definition of cosmoscape. Noting a tendency to gloss over the ways in which ancestral Americans envisioned the cosmos as intertwined and animated, the authors examine how cosmoscapes are manifested archaeologically, in the forms of objects and physically altered landscapes. This book’s chapters, therefore, offer case studies of cosmoscapes that present themselves as forms of architecture, portable artifacts, and transformed aspects of the natural world. In doing so, it emphasizes that the creation of cosmoscapes offered a means of reconciling peoples experiences of the world with their understandings of them.

Author : Deborah L. Nichols,Frances Berdan,Michael E. Smith
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816535514

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Rethinking the Aztec Economy by Deborah L. Nichols,Frances Berdan,Michael E. Smith Pdf

"Rethinking the Aztec Economy provides new perspectives on the society and economy of the ancient Aztecs by focusing on goods and their patterns of circulation"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Merideth Paxton,Leticia Staines Cicero
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780826359070

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Constructing Power and Place in Mesoamerica by Merideth Paxton,Leticia Staines Cicero Pdf

Identities of power and place, as expressed in paintings from the periods before and after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica, are the subject of this book of case studies from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya area. These sophisticated, skillfully rendered images occur with architecture, in manuscripts, on large pieces of cloth, and on ceramics.

Author : Vera Tiesler,Andrea Cucina
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387488714

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New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society by Vera Tiesler,Andrea Cucina Pdf

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