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Author : Susanna Ekholm-Miller
Publisher : Provo, Utah : New World Archaeological Foundation, Brigham Young University
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Chiapas (Mexico)
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018564394
Author : Julia Guernsey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107012462
This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity. Julia Guernsey situates the origins and evolution of monumental stone sculpture within a broader social and political context and demonstrates the role that such sculpture played in creating and institutionalizing social hierarchies. This book focuses specifically on an enigmatic type of public, monumental sculpture known as the "potbelly" that traces its antecedents to earlier, small domestic ritual objects and ceramic figurines. The cessation of domestic rituals involving ceramic figurines along the Pacific slope coincided not only with the creation of the first monumental potbelly sculptures, but with the rise of the first state-level societies in Mesoamerica by the advent of the Late Preclassic period. The potbellies became central to the physical representation of new forms of social identity and expressions of political authority during this time of dramatic change.
Author : Julia Guernsey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108478991
Explores the social significance of representation of the human body in Preclassic Mesoamerica.
Author : Barbara L. Stark,Barbara Voorhies
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483276366
Prehistoric Coastal Adaptations: The Economy and Ecology of Maritime Middle America is a compendium of research papers and treatises on Middle American people who lived within coastal habitats. The collection aims to reveal distinctive coastal adaptations and the role of Middle American people in major social transformations. The book discusses topics on the history of occupations of certain coastal sites; correlation of site location to resource procurement patterns; settlement locations and subsistence evidence in the coastal and inland habitats of Costa Rica; and the maritime adaptation and the rise of Maya civilization. The final chapter of the book also discusses the future research directions in the study of Middle American coastal people. The text will be of value to archeologists, anthropologists, historians, ethnologists, and researchers.
Author : Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett,John S. Henderson
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781938770814
The contributors to this volume have addressed issues of systematics in pottery analysis that perplex archaeologists wherever they work. These issues are not approached by setting forth rules or by adopting a how-to approach but rather by example as the various researchers give the background to their work, explain their methods, and present the classified pottery from their investigations. An in-process statement of what we are learning from pottery about chronology, interactions, and the nature of regional cultural development, this volume can be used by archaeologists working in southern Mesoamerica and northern Central America, who will find it valuable for comparative analysis, and by archaeologists dealing with issues of systematics in pottery analysis in different culture areas but facing many of the same problems that researchers do in Honduras.
Author : Jane W. Pires-Ferreira
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Barter
ISBN : 9781949098440
Author : William R. Fowler, Jr.
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0849388317
This book presents discussions on the formation of complex society of Southeastern Mesoamerica throughout pre-Columbian times. These societies include ones from the Early Preclassic or Formative period to those encountered by the Spaniards when they arrived in the early 16th century. Diverse classes of data from archaeology, ethnography, and ethnohistory are utilized. The book provides wide spatial and temporal coverage, as well as a wide diversity of theoretical perspectives. Anyone interested in archeology or the evolution of prehistoric complex societies will find this book fascinating.
Author : Julia Guernsey
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292779167
The ancient Mesoamerican city of Izapa in Chiapas, Mexico, is renowned for its extensive collection of elaborate stone stelae and altars, which were carved during the Late Preclassic period (300 BC-AD 250). Many of these monuments depict kings garbed in the costume and persona of a bird, a well-known avian deity who had great significance for the Maya and other cultures in adjacent regions. This Izapan style of carving and kingly representation appears at numerous sites across the Pacific slope and piedmont of Mexico and Guatemala, making it possible to trace political and economic corridors of communication during the Late Preclassic period. In this book, Julia Guernsey offers a masterful art historical analysis of the Izapan style monuments and their integral role in developing and communicating the institution of divine kingship. She looks specifically at how rulers expressed political authority by erecting monuments that recorded their performance of rituals in which they communicated with the supernatural realm in the persona of the avian deity. She also considers how rulers used the monuments to structure their built environment and create spaces for ritual and politically charged performances. Setting her discussion in a broader context, Guernsey also considers how the Izapan style monuments helped to motivate and structure some of the dramatic, pan-regional developments of the Late Preclassic period, including the forging of a codified language of divine kingship. This pioneering investigation, which links monumental art to the matrices of political, economic, and supernatural exchange, offers an important new understanding of a region, time period, and group of monuments that played a key role in the history of Mesoamerica and continue to intrigue scholars within the field of Mesoamerican studies.
Author : Damien B. Marken
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0759108757
Collection of articles on recent excavations and studies of one of the best known Maya archaeological sites
Author : Rex Koontz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429979040
From the early cities in the second millennium BC to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan on the eve of the Spanish conquest, Ancient Mesoamericans created landscapes full of meaning and power in the center of their urban spaces. The sixteenth century description of Tenochtitlan by Bernal Diaz del Castillo and the archaeological remnants of Teotihuacan attest to the power and centrality of these urban configurations in Ancient Mesoamerican history. In Landscape and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica, Rex Koontz, Kathryn Reese-Taylor, and Annabeth Headrick explore the cultural logic that structured and generated these centers.Through case studies of specific urban spaces and their meanings, the authors examine the general principles by which the Ancient Mesoamericans created meaningful urban space. In a profoundly interdisciplinary exchange involving both archaeologists and art historians, this volume connects the symbolism of those landscapes, the performances that activated this symbolism, and the cultural poetics of these ensembles.
Author : Robert J. Sharer,David C. Grove
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521363322
Author : Vernon L. Scarborough,David R. Wilcox
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816513600
The Precolumbian ballgame, played on a masonry court, has long intrigued scholars because of the magnificence of its archaeological remains. From its lowland Maya origins it spread throughout the Aztec empire, where the game was so popular that sixteen thousand rubber balls were imported annually into Tenochtitlan. It endured for two thousand years, spreading as far as to what is now southern Arizona. This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture. The authors demonstrate that the game was more than a spectator sport; serving social, political, mythological, and cosmological functions, it celebrated both fertility and the afterlife, war and peace, and became an evolving institution functioning in part to resolve conflict within and between groups. The contributors provide complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offer new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh. With its scholarly attention to a subject that will fascinate even general readers, The Mesoamerican Ballgame is a major contribution to the study of the mental life and outlook of New World peoples.
Author : Richard G. Lesure
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520268999
"Data and interpretations generated from the Soconusco are critical but often fail to inform larger debates in Mesoamerica as frequently as they should. This book remedies that situation; it will be of interest to all Mesoamericanists who work on the Archaic and Formative periods."--Jeffrey P. Blomster, editor of After Monte Alban: Transformation and Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico "This volume will be crucial to our understanding of the origins of civilization in Mesoamerica. Its interpretations are innovative and present a wealth of new research on an early time period from a very important region. Its importance cannot be underestimated."--Terry G. Powis, Department of Anthropology, Kennesaw State University
Author : Stephen Kowalewski,Gary Feinman,Laura Finsten,Richard E. Blanton,Linda Nicholas
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780915703753
Author : Richard L. Burger,Robert M. Rosenswig
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813042732
In studies of ancient civilizations, the focus is often on the temples, palaces, and buildings created and then left behind, both because they survive and because of the awe they still inspire today. From the Mississippian mounds in the United States to the early pyramids of Peru, these monuments have been well-documented, but less attention has been paid to analyzing the logistical complexity involved in their creation. In this collection, prominent archaeologists explore the sophisticated political and logistical organizations that were required to plan and complete these architectural marvels. They discuss the long-term political, social, and military impacts these projects had on their respective civilizations, and illuminate the significance of monumentality among early complex societies in the Americas. Early New World Monumentality is ultimately a study of labor and its mobilization, as well as the long-term spiritual awe and political organization that motivated and were enhanced by such undertakings. Mounds and other impressive monuments left behind by earlier civilizations continue to reveal their secrets, offering profound insights into the development of complex societies throughout the New World.