Pottery Of Prehistoric Honduras

Author : Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett,John S. Henderson
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781938770814

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Pottery of Prehistoric Honduras by Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett,John S. Henderson Pdf

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 : Rosemary A. Joyce
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004341500

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Painted Pottery of Honduras by Rosemary A. Joyce Pdf

In Painted Pottery of Honduras Rosemary Joyce describes the development of the Ulua Polychrome tradition in Honduras from the fifth to sixteenth centuries AD, and critically examines archaeological research on these objects that began in the nineteenth century.

Author : James John Aimers
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813042572

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Ancient Maya Pottery by James John Aimers Pdf

The ancient Maya produced a broad range of ceramics that has attracted concerted scholarly attention for over a century. Pottery sherds--the most abundant artifacts recovered from sites--reveal much about artistic expression, religious ritual, economic systems, cooking traditions, and cultural exchange in Maya society. Today, nearly every Maya archaeologist uses the type-variety classificatory framework for studying sherd collections. This impressive volume brings together many of the archaeologists signally involved in the analysis and interpretation of ancient Maya ceramics and represents new findings and state-of-the-art thinking. The result is a book that serves both as a valuable resource for archaeologists involved in pottery classification, analysis, and interpretation and as an illuminating exploration of ancient Mayan culture.

Author : Patricia A. Urban,Edward M. Schortman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107172746

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Ancient Southeast Mesoamerica by Patricia A. Urban,Edward M. Schortman Pdf

This book explores the development and political history of Southeast Mesoamerica from its earliest inhabitants up to the Spanish conquest.

Author : Kenneth Hirth,Susan Hirth,George Hasemann,Gloria Lara-Pinto
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646424757

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Ritual and Economy in a Pre-Columbian Chiefdom by Kenneth Hirth,Susan Hirth,George Hasemann,Gloria Lara-Pinto Pdf

This volume examines the organization and ritual economy of a pre-Columbian chiefdom that developed in central Honduras over a 1,400-year period from 400 BC to AD 1000. Extremely applicable and broadly important to the archaeological studies of Mesoamerica, Ritual and Economy in a Pre-Columbian Chiefdom models the ritual organization of pre-Columbian societies across Honduras to expand the understanding of chiefdom societies in Central America and explore how these non-Maya societies developed and evolved. As part of the ritual economy, a large quantity of jade and marble artifacts were deposited as offerings in the ritual architecture of the El Cajón region’s central community of Salitrón Viejo. Over 2,800 of these high-value items were recovered from their original ritual contexts, making Salitrón Viejo one of the largest in situ collections of these materials ever recovered in the New World. These materials are well dated and tremendously varied and provide a cross-section of all jade-carving lapidary traditions in use across eastern Mesoamerica between AD 250 and 350. With a complementary website providing extensive additional description, visualization, and analysis (https://journals.psu.edu/opa/issue/view/3127), Ritual and Economy in a Pre-Columbian Chiefdom is a new and original contribution that employs an “economy of ritual approach” to the study of chiefdom societies in the Americas. It is a foundational reference point for any scholar working in Mesoamerica and Central America, especially those engaged in Maya research, as well as archaeologists working with societies at this scale of complexity in Latin America and around the world.

Author : Whitney A. Goodwin,Erlend Johnson,Alejandro J. Figueroa
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646420971

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Southeastern Mesoamerica by Whitney A. Goodwin,Erlend Johnson,Alejandro J. Figueroa Pdf

Southeastern Mesoamerica highlights the diversity and dynamism of the Indigenous groups that inhabited and continue to inhabit the borders of Southeastern Mesoamerica, an area that includes parts of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Chapters combine archaeological, ethnohistoric, and historic data and approaches to better understand the long-term sociopolitical and cultural changes that occurred throughout the entirety of human occupation of this area. Drawing on archaeological evidence ranging back to the late Pleistocene as well as extensive documentation from the historic period, contributors show how Southeastern Mesoamericans created unique identities, strategically incorporating cosmopolitan influences from cultures to the north and south with their own long-lived traditions. These populations developed autochthonous forms of monumental architecture and routes and methods of exchange and had distinct social, cultural, political, and economic traits. They also established unique long-term human-environment relations that were the result of internal creativity and inspiration influenced by local social and natural trajectories. Southeastern Mesoamerica calls upon archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, ethnohistorians, and others working in Mesoamerica, Central America, and other cultural boundaries around the world to reexamine the role Indigenous resilience and agency play in these areas and in the cultural developments and interactions that occur within them. Contributors: Edy Barrios, Christopher Begley, Walter Burgos, Mauricio Díaz García, William R. Fowler, Rosemary A. Joyce, Gloria Lara-Pinto, Eva L. Martínez, William J. McFarlane, Cameron L. McNeil, Lorena D. Mihok, Pastor Rodolfo Gómez Zúñiga, Timothy Scheffler, Edward Schortman, Russell Sheptak, Miranda Suri, Patricia Urban, Antolín Velásquez, E. Christian Wells

Author : Gregory Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:29003294

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Pottery and Other Artifacts from Caves in British Honduras and Guatemala by Gregory Mason Pdf

Author : James C. Gifford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Barton Ramie Site (Belize)
ISBN : 0873656911

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Prehistoric Pottery Analysis and the Ceramics of Barton Ramie in the Belize Valley by James C. Gifford Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : CD-ROMs
ISBN : 9781931707916

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Quirigua Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Geoffrey E Braswell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317756088

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The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors by Geoffrey E Braswell Pdf

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.

Author : George Byron Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Copán (Honduras : Department)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924086016593

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Prehistoric Ruins of Copan, Honduras by George Byron Gordon Pdf

"This preliminary report of the explorations at the Ruins of Copan is intended to give only a general description of the ruins and a summary of the work of the several Museum expeditions to Honduras from 1891 to 1895. It will be followed by special papers relating to discoveries made during the explorations." -- Editorial note.

Author : Julia A. Hendon,Rosemary A. Joyce,Jeanne Lopiparo
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607322788

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Material Relations by Julia A. Hendon,Rosemary A. Joyce,Jeanne Lopiparo Pdf

Focusing on marriage figurines—double human figurines that represent relations formed through social alliances—Hendon, Joyce, and Lopiparo examine the material relations created in Honduras between AD 500 and 1000, a period of time when a network of social houses linked settlements of a variety of sizes in the region. The authors analyze these small, seemingly insignificant artifacts using the theory of materiality to understand broader social processes. They examine the production, use, and disposal of marriage figurines from six sites—Campo Dos, Cerro Palenque, Copán, Currusté, Tenampua, and Travesia—and explore their role in rituals and ceremonies, as well as in the forming of social bonds and the celebration of relationships among communities. They find evidence of historical traditions reproduced over generations through material media in social relations among individuals, families, and communities, as well as social differences within this network of connected yet independent settlements. Material Relations provides a new and dynamic understanding of how social houses functioned via networks of production and reciprocal exchange of material objects and will be of interest to Mesoamerican archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians.

Author : Deborah L. Nichols,Christopher A. Pool
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199996346

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The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology by Deborah L. Nichols,Christopher A. Pool Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, this Handbook also includes coverage of important new work by archaeologists on the Colonial and Republican periods. Unique among recent works, the text brings together in a single volume article-length regional syntheses and topical overviews written by active scholars in the field of Mesoamerican archaeology. The first section of the Handbook provides an overview of recent history and trends of Mesoamerica and articles on national archaeology programs and practice in Central America and Mexico written by archaeologists from these countries. These are followed by regional syntheses organized by time period, beginning with early hunter-gatherer societies and the first farmers of Mesoamerica and concluding with a discussion of the Spanish Conquest and frontiers and peripheries of Mesoamerica. Topical and comparative articles comprise the remainder of Handbook. They cover important dimensions of prehispanic societies--from ecology, economy, and environment to social and political relations--and discuss significant methodological contributions, such as geo-chemical source studies, as well as new theories and diverse theoretical perspectives. The Handbook concludes with a section on the archaeology of the Spanish conquest and the Colonial and Republican periods to connect the prehispanic, proto-historic, and historic periods. This volume will be a must-read for students and professional archaeologists, as well as other scholars including historians, art historians, geographers, and ethnographers with an interest in Mesoamerica.

Author : Walter Robert Thurmond Witschey,Clifford T. Brown
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810871670

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Historical Dictionary of Mesoamerica by Walter Robert Thurmond Witschey,Clifford T. Brown Pdf

Mesoamerica is one of six major areas of the world where humans independently changed their culture from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle into settled communities, cities, and civilization. In addition to China (twice), the Indus Valley, the Fertile Crescent of southwest Asia, Egypt, and Peru, Mesoamerica was home to exciting and irreversible changes in human culture called the "Neolithic Revolution." The changes included domestication of plants and animals, leading to agriculture, husbandry, and eventually sedentary village life. These developments set the stage for the growth of cities, social stratification, craft specialization, warfare, writing, mathematics, and astronomy, or what we call the rise of civilization. These changes forever transformed humankind. The Historical Dictionary of Mesoamerica covers the history of Mesoamerica through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 900 cross-referenced dictionary entries covering the major peoples, places, ideas, and events related to Mesoamerica. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Mesoamerica.

Author : Barbara L. Voss,Eleanor Conlin Casella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139503136

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The Archaeology of Colonialism by Barbara L. Voss,Eleanor Conlin Casella Pdf

This volume examines human sexuality as an intrinsic element in the interpretation of complex colonial societies. While archaeological studies of the historic past have explored the dynamics of European colonialism, such work has largely ignored broader issues of sexuality, embodiment, commemoration, reproduction and sensuality. Recently, however, scholars have begun to recognize these issues as essential components of colonization and imperialism. This book explores a variety of case studies, revealing the multifaceted intersections of colonialism and sexuality. Incorporating work that ranges from Phoenician diasporic communities of the eighth century to Britain's nineteenth-century Australian penal colonies to the contemporary Maroon community of Brazil, this volume changes the way we understand the relationship between sexuality and colonial history.