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Author : Carroll L. Riley,Basil Calvin Hedrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UIUC:30112037888259
Author : Charles D. Trombold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521383370
The presence of ancient road networks in the New World is a puzzle, because they predate the use of wheeled transport vehicles. But whatever their diverse functions may have been, they remain the only tangible indication of how extinct American societies were regionally organised. Contributors to this volume, originally published in 1991, describe past studies of prehispanic roads in the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central and South America, paying special attention to their significance for economic and political organisation, as well as regional communication.
Author : Paul Minnis,Charles L Redman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000301472
Recent archaeoglogical work in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico has fueled a great deal of regionally specific research: archaeologists, faced with an avalanche of new and unassimilated data, tend to foucs on their own areas to the exclusion of the broader, panregional view. "Perspectives on Southwestern Prehistory" advocates the larger f
Author : Paul F Reed
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874809251
A timely synopsis of the archaeology of the Middle San Juan region bringing recent work at Salmon Ruins into the context of thirty-five years of research there.
Author : Peter J. McKenna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Chaco Canyon (N.M.)
ISBN : UIUC:30112051860614
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Attorneys general
ISBN : PURD:32754075436307
Author : Carroll L. Riley
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0874804965
Chronicles twelve thousand years of continuous history of the upper Rio Grande region, from the introduction of agriculture, to the rise of the Basketmaker-Pueblo people and beyond.
Author : Vernon L. Scarborough,David R. Wilcox
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Frances Joan Mathien,Thomas C. Windes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Chaco Canyon (N.M.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029369167
Author : Richard Flint,Shirley Cushing Flint
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870817663
The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva is an engaging record of key research by archaeologists, ethnographers, historians, and geographers concerning the first organized European entrance into what is now the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico. In search of where the expedition went and what peoples it encountered, this volume explores the fertile valleys of Sonora, the basins and ranges of southern Arizona, the Zuni pueblos and the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, and the Llano Estacado of the Texas panhandle. The twenty-one contributors to the volume have pursued some of the most significant lines of research in the field in the last fifty years; their techniques range from documentary analysis and recording traditional stories to detailed examination of the landscape and excavation of campsites and Indian towns. With more confidence than ever before, researchers are closing in on the route of the conquistadors.
Author : Dorothy K. Washburn,Donald W. Crowe
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486842325
This groundbreaking collaboration between an anthropologist and a mathematician constitutes both a collection of symmetrical pattern designs from many cultures and a monograph on pattern design and the classification of symmetrical patterns. Intended for art historians, anthropologists, classical archaeologists, and others interested in the study of material culture, it can also serve as a reference and inspiration for the use of symmetrical patterns in art and design. "This richly illustrated study brings to light dozens of intriguing examples of symmetrical designs, for instance, in a Zulu loincloth, a Japanese chopstick case, a New England quilt, a Tibetan 'Plaque of a Thousand Lamas,' a Hawaiian water gourd. The same pattern found in a fantastical drawing of lizards by M. C. Escher is echoed in a Fijian basket lid and an Egyptian wall mosaic." — Publishers Weekly "This extremely useful guide to classifying plane pattern designs … is extensively illustrated with carvings, textiles, baskets, tiles, and poetry, which are used as examples of various symmetry patterns." — American Anthropologist "An impressive book—both in terms of its physical appearance and its content ... will undoubtedly become the major reference on the analysis of patterns in terms of symmetry properties." — Antiquity
Author : Anthony F. Aveni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1982-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521247313
This volume summarises the proceedings of a conference which took place at the University of Oxford in September 1981.
Author : Matthew C. Pailes,Michael T. Searcy
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780932839664
This approachable book in the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series is a comprehensive synthesis of Northwest Mexico from the US border to the Mesoamerican frontier. Filling a vital gap in the regional literature, it serves as an essential reference not only for those interested in the specific history of this area of Mexico but western North America writ large. A period-by-period review of approximately 14,000 years reveals the dynamic connections that knitted together societies inhabiting the Sea of Cortez coast, the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts, and the Sierra Madre Occidental. Networks of interaction spanned these diverse ecological, topographical, and cultural terrains in the millennia following the demise of the megafauna. The authors provide a fresh perspective that refutes depictions of the Northwest as a simple filter or conduit of happenings to the north or south, and they highlight the role local motivations and dynamics played in facilitating continental-scale processes.
Author : Michael S Foster,Phil C Weigand,Leticia Gonzalez,Eric W Ritter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000314717
Based on recent archaeological surveys and excavations, the chapters in this volume provide current, comprehensive, area-by-area summaries of the region's Precolumbian past. Research in the last two decades has indicated that the evolution and adaptations of the indigenous cultures of the region parallel those found elsewhere in Mesoamerica, from the simple Formative groups to the complex states of the North. The topics discussed in the book--areal and cultural syntheses and specific problems such as chronology, social organization, and economic systems--present much new information crucial to the understanding of cultural variations in Mesoamerica.
Author : Lynne Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107059375
This book explores the role of formal knowledge systems in small-scale oral cultures in both historic and archaeological contexts.