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Janaab' Pakal of Palenque

Author : Vera Tiesler,Andrea Cucina
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,8 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.

The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal

Author : Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 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.

The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal

Author : Gerardo Aldana
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,6 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.

Golden Kingdoms

Author : Joanne Pillsbury,Timothy Potts,Kim N. Richter
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606065488

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Golden Kingdoms by Joanne Pillsbury,Timothy Potts,Kim N. Richter Pdf

This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions. Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings of ancient American art through a thematic exploration of indigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to the book is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideas across regions and across time: works of great value would often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists. The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.

Palenque

Author : David Stuart,George Stuart
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015080866059

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Palenque by David Stuart,George Stuart Pdf

Two leading Maya scholars tell this story of the rediscovery of the queen of Maya cities--Palenque--deep in the forest-clad mountains of southeastern Mexico. 150 illustrations.

The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition

Author : Robert J. Sharer,Loa P. Traxler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804748179

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The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition by Robert J. Sharer,Loa P. Traxler Pdf

The rich findings of recent exploration and research are incorporated in this completely revised and greatly expanded sixth edition of this standard work on the Maya people. New field discoveries, new technical advances, new successes in the decipherment of Maya writing, and new theoretical perspectives on the Maya past have made this new edition necessary.

Ancient Maya Politics

Author : Simon Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483889

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Ancient Maya Politics by Simon Martin Pdf

With new readings of ancient texts, Ancient Maya Politics unlocks the long-enigmatic political system of the Classic Maya.

Palenque

Author : Damien B. Marken
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0759108757

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Palenque by Damien B. Marken Pdf

Collection of articles on recent excavations and studies of one of the best known Maya archaeological sites

Maya Narrative Arts

Author : Karen Bassie-Sweet,Nicholas A. Hopkins
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607327424

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Maya Narrative Arts by Karen Bassie-Sweet,Nicholas A. Hopkins Pdf

In Maya Narrative Arts, authors Karen Bassie-Sweet and Nicholas A. Hopkins present a comprehensive and innovative analysis of the principles of Classic Maya narrative arts and apply those principles to some of the major monuments of the site of Palenque. They demonstrate a recent methodological shift in the examination of art and inscriptions away from minute technical issues and toward the poetics and narratives of texts and the relationship between texts and images. Bassie-Sweet and Hopkins show that both visual and verbal media present carefully planned narratives, and that the two are intimately related in the composition of Classic Maya monuments. Text and image interaction is discussed through examples of stelae, wall panels, lintels, benches, and miscellaneous artifacts including ceramic vessels and codices. Bassie-Sweet and Hopkins consider the principles of contrast and complementarity that underlie narrative structures and place this study in the context of earlier work, proposing a new paradigm for Maya epigraphy. They also address the narrative organization of texts and images as manifested in selected hieroglyphic inscriptions and the accompanying illustrations, stressing the interplay between the two. Arguing for a more holistic approach to Classic Maya art and literature, Maya Narrative Arts reveals how close observation and reading can be equally if not more productive than theoretical discussions, which too often stray from the very data that they attempt to elucidate. The book will be significant for Mesoamerican art historians, epigraphers, linguists, and archaeologists.

The Visionary Mayan Queen

Author : Leonide Martin
Publisher : Made For Success Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613398678

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The Visionary Mayan Queen by Leonide Martin Pdf

Leonide (Lennie) Martin: Retired California State University professor, former Family Nurse Practitioner, currently author and Maya researcher. My books bring ancient Maya culture and civilization to life in stories about both real historical Mayas and fictional characters. For historical accuracy, I researched Maya archeology, anthropology and history from the scientific perspective. For indigenous viewpoints, I studied with Maya teachers including Aum Rak Sapper, Guatemalan Priestess-Daykeeper and Hunbatz Men, Itza Maya Elder-Daykeeper. I lived in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico for five years to apprentice with Hunbatz Men, becoming a Solar Initiate and Maya Fire Woman in the Itza Maya tradition. The ancient Mayas created the most highly advanced civilization in the Western hemisphere, and my work is dedicated to their wisdom, spirituality, scientific and cultural accomplishments through compelling historical novels. For more information about my writing and the Mayas, visit: Website: www.mistsofpalenque.com Blog: http://leonidemartinblog.wordpress.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leonide.martin

Janaab' Pakal de Palenque

Author : Vera Tiesler,Andrea Cucina
Publisher : UNAM
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Human remains (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9703214894

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The Prophetic Mayan Queen

Author : Leonide Martin
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781641463188

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The Prophetic Mayan Queen by Leonide Martin Pdf

"Readers are brought along for a journey filled with every imaginable emotion in the course of a heroine’s lifetime. As a result, a world that is stunningly beautiful and complete without ours—but intractably connected—surges through the pages of the book." – Reader Views She was born to serve the Goddess Ix Chel. But K'inuuw Mat is destined to continue the Palenque (Lakam Ha) dynasty by marriage to Tiwol, fourth son of famous ruler Pakal. Trained in prophetic arts, she uses scrying to foresee the face of the man with whom she will bear the dynastic heir—but it is not her husband's image. She is shocked upon arriving at Palenque to recognize that face as her husband's older brother, Kan Bahlam. They are immediately attracted, sharing deep interest in astronomy. Though she resists, the magnetic force of their attraction propels them into forbidden embraces, until Kan Bahlam designs a bold plan that would solve his inability to produce a son—if he can gain his brother's cooperation. Set in the splendor of Lakam Ha's artistic and scientific zenith, royal family conflicts and ambitions play out in a tapestry of brilliant Mayan accomplishments in calendars, astronomy, architecture, arts, and secret language codes that will astound people centuries later. As K'inuuw Mat contends with explosive emotions, she must answer the Goddess' mandate to preserve Mayan culture for future generations. Her passion with Kan Bahlam leads to a pale daughter and bold son who carry this out as their civilization begins the decline and eventual collapse her prophetic vision foresees. One great cycle rolls into the next . . . Contemporary Mexican archeologist Francesca and her partner Charlie, a British linguist, venture into Chiapas jungles to a remote Maya village, seeking to unravel her grandmother's secrets. The hostile village shaman holds the key, but refuses to share with outsiders the scandal that leads to foreign blood and ancient Palenque lineages. Only by re-claiming her own shamanic heritage can Francesca learn the truth of who she is, and bring her dynasty into the present.

Death and the Classic Maya Kings

Author : James L. Fitzsimmons
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292781986

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Death and the Classic Maya Kings by James L. Fitzsimmons Pdf

Like their regal counterparts in societies around the globe, ancient Maya rulers departed this world with elaborate burial ceremonies and lavish grave goods, which often included ceramics, red pigments, earflares, stingray spines, jades, pearls, obsidian blades, and mosaics. Archaeological investigation of these burials, as well as the decipherment of inscriptions that record Maya rulers' funerary rites, have opened a fascinating window on how the ancient Maya envisaged the ruler's passage from the world of the living to the realm of the ancestors. Focusing on the Classic Period (AD 250-900), James Fitzsimmons examines and compares textual and archaeological evidence for rites of death and burial in the Maya lowlands, from which he creates models of royal Maya funerary behavior. Exploring ancient Maya attitudes toward death expressed at well-known sites such as Tikal, Guatemala, and Copan, Honduras, as well as less-explored archaeological locations, Fitzsimmons reconstructs royal mortuary rites and expands our understanding of key Maya concepts including the afterlife and ancestor veneration.

The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology

Author : Vera Tiesler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 46,9 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.

Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens

Author : Simon Martin,Nikolai Grube
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106019910212

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Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens by Simon Martin,Nikolai Grube Pdf

"The ideal reference on Maya archaeology."--Science News