Quirigua Reports Volume Iv

Author : Wendy Ashmore
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 193170791X

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Quirigua Reports, Volume IV by Wendy Ashmore Pdf

This monograph reports the results of the Quiriguá Project Site Periphery Program, five seasons (1975-1979) of archaeological survey and excavation in the 96 km2 immediately adjoining the classic Maya site of Quiriguá. Ashmore identifies and helps us understand where and how the people of Quiriguá lived. She presents detailed material evidence in two data catalogues, for the floodplain settlement adjoining Quiriguá and for sites in the wider periphery. The work situates Quiriguá settlement firmly in a regional context, benefiting from the extraordinary abundance of information amassed in southeastern Mesoamerica since 1979. It sheds new light on the political, economic, and social dynamics of the region including the sometimes-fractious interactions between Quiriguá, its overlords at Copan, and people elsewhere in the Lower Motagua Valley and beyond. Content of this book's CD-ROM may be found online at this location: http://core.tdar.org/project/376582. University Museum Monograph, 126

Author : Edward M. Schortman,Patricia A. Urban
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1931707480

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Quiriguá Reports, Volume II by Edward M. Schortman,Patricia A. Urban Pdf

Although Quiriguá and its magnificent carved monuments have been recorded and studied by scholars over the past century, little archaeological data were available until recently. From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at this major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala. The aims of the work were to document a basic chronology, to determine the nature and pattern of structures, and to test hypotheses concerning the origins, location, and demise of Quiriguá. University Museum Monograph, 49

Author : Edward M. Schortman
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0924171197

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Quiriguá Reports, Volume III by Edward M. Schortman Pdf

From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at Quiriguá, a major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala, in order to document the basic chronology, determine the nature and pattern of structures, and test hypotheses concerning the origins, location, and demise of the city. This monograph reports the findings of the survey and excavations carried out in the lower Motagua Valley. Providing a regional context for Quiriguá, this volume focuses on wider-valley centers with monumental architecture, examining their chronology, function, and regional and interregional contacts. University Museum Monograph, 80

Author : Wendy Ashmore,Robert J. Sharer
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1979-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0934718261

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Quiriguá Reports, Volume I by Wendy Ashmore,Robert J. Sharer Pdf

Although Quiriguá and its magnificent carved monuments have been recorded and studied by scholars over the past century, little archaeological data were available until recently. From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at this major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala. The aims of the work were to document a basic chronology, to determine the nature and pattern of structures, and to test hypotheses concerning the origins, location, and demise of Quiriguá. University Museum Monograph, 37

Author : Patricia A. Urban,Edward M. Schortman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Matthew G. Looper
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292778177

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Lightning Warrior by Matthew G. Looper Pdf

The ancient Maya city of Quirigua occupied a crossroads between Copan in the southeastern Maya highlands and the major centers of the Peten heartland. Though always a relatively small city, Quirigua stands out because of its public monuments, which were some of the greatest achievements of Classic Maya civilization. Impressive not only for their colossal size, high sculptural quality, and eloquent hieroglyphic texts, the sculptures of Quirigua are also one of the few complete, in situ series of Maya monuments anywhere, which makes them a crucial source of information about ancient Maya spirituality and political practice within a specific historical context. Using epigraphic, iconographic, and stylistic analyses, this study explores the integrated political-religious meanings of Quirigua's monumental sculptures during the eighth-century A.D. reign of the city's most famous ruler, K'ak' Tiliw. In particular, Matthew Looper focuses on the role of stelae and other sculpture in representing the persona of the ruler not only as a political authority but also as a manifestation of various supernatural entities with whom he was associated through ritual performance. By tracing this sculptural program from its Early Classic beginnings through the reigns of K'ak' Tiliw and his successors, and also by linking it to practices at Copan, Looper offers important new insights into the politico-religious history of Quirigua and its ties to other Classic Maya centers, the role of kingship in Maya society, and the development of Maya art.

Author : Eugenia Robinson,Gavin Davies
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000918892

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Routes, Interaction and Exchange in the Southern Maya Area by Eugenia Robinson,Gavin Davies Pdf

This book explores routes of interaction and exchange in the Southern Maya Area, a zone that had both short- and long-distance trade and whose natural resources were exploited by merchants and rulers, colonists and entrepreneurs during Olmec, Teotihuacan, Maya, Aztec, colonial and modern times. The book presents the research of both archaeologists and art historians to identify routes of interconnection, to demonstrate the strategic importance of settlements and ritual locations, and to assess the significance of modes and mediums of exchange. The contributors employ innovative approaches, making use of state-of-the art technologies to reproduce and analyze the archaeological landscape (e.g. LiDAR, GIS, and least-cost path analysis) and to source and characterize archaeological materials (e.g. neutron activation analysis (NAA), X-ray fluorescence analysis [XRF] and strontium analysis). The book combines these innovative approaches with earlier data sources and past analyses to develop a new, synthetic analysis of interaction. Routes, Interaction and Exchange in the Southern Maya Area will appeal to professional academics, students, and interested lay readers from a broad range of social science fields including anthropology, archaeology, geography, economics, history, and art history and is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate courses in Mesoamerican archaeology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Book News Inc.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781605850870

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Art Book News Annual, volume 4: 2008Art Book News Annual, volume 4: 2008 by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UOM:39015021948032

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Research Reports - National Geographic Society by National Geographic Society (U.S.) Pdf

Abstracts and reviews of research and exploration authorized under grants from the National Geographic Society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : CD-ROMs
ISBN : 9781931707916

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Quirigua Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : John F. Harris
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0924171308

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A Resource Bibliography for the Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyph and New Maya Hieroglyph Readings by John F. Harris Pdf

Author : Travis W. Stanton,M. Kathryn Brown
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646420469

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A Forest of History by Travis W. Stanton,M. Kathryn Brown Pdf

David Freidel and Linda Schele’s monumental work A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (1990) offered an innovative, rigorous, and controversial approach to studying the ancient Maya, unifying archaeological, iconographic, and epigraphic data in a form accessible to both scholars and laypeople. Travis Stanton and Kathryn Brown’s A Forest of History: The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship presents a collection of essays that critically engage with and build upon the lasting contributions A Forest of Kings made to Maya epigraphy, iconography, material culture, and history. These original papers present new, cutting-edge research focusing on the social changes leading up to the spread of divine kingship across the lowlands in the first part of the Early Classic. The contributors continue avenues of inquiry such as the timing of the Classic Maya collapse across the southern lowlands, the nature of Maya warfare, the notion of usurpation and “stranger-kings” in the Classic period, the social relationships between the ruler and elite of the Classic period Yaxchilán polity, and struggles for sociopolitical dominance among the later Classic period polities of Chichén Itzá, Cobá, and the Puuc kingdoms. Many of the interpretations and approaches in A Forest of Kings have withstood the test of time, while others have not; a complete understanding of the Classic Maya world is still developing. In A Forest of History recent discoveries are considered in the context of prior scholarship, illustrating both the progress the field has made in the past quarter century and the myriad questions that remain. The volume will be a significant contribution to the literature for students, scholars, and general readers interested in Mesoamerican and Maya archaeology. Contributors: Wendy Ashmore, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, Wilberth Cruz Alvarado, Arthur A. Demarest, Keith Eppich, David A. Freidel, Charles W. Golden, Stanley P. Guenter, Annabeth Headrick, Aline Magnoni, Joyce Marcus, Marilyn A. Masson, Damaris Menéndez, Susan Milbrath, Olivia C. Navarro-Farr, José Osorio León, Carlos Peraza Lope, Juan Carlos Pérez Calderón, Griselda Pérez Robles, Francisco Pérez Ruíz, Michelle Rich, Jeremy A. Sabloff, Andrew K. Scherer, Karl A. Taube

Author : Robert J. Sharer,Wendy Ashmore,Edward M. Schortman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 0934718253

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Quirigua Reports by Robert J. Sharer,Wendy Ashmore,Edward M. Schortman Pdf

Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 2298 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547721994

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The Native Races (Vol. 1-5) by Hubert Howe Bancroft Pdf

The Native Races of the Pacific States is the magnum opus American historian and ethnologist Hubert Howe Bancroft who took upon himself the task of researching the exotic civilizations of the entire Pacific coast region. This region, from Alaska to Darien, including the whole of Mexico and Central America, he named the Pacific States. Before the arrival of Europeans, these territories were populated by aborigines, from the reptile-eating cave-dwellers of the Great Basin, to the Aztec and Maya civilization of the southern table-land. Volume 1 – Wild Tribes Volume 2 – Civilized Nations Volume 3 – Myths and Languages Volume 4 – Antiquities Volume 5 – Primitive History

Author : Maria Cecilia Lozada,Barra O'Donnabhain
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781938770494

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The Dead Tell Tales by Maria Cecilia Lozada,Barra O'Donnabhain Pdf

Honoring Jane Buikstra's pioneering work in the development of bioarchaeological research, the essays in this volume stem from a symposium held at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Multiple generations of Buikstra's former doctoral students and other colleagues gathered to discuss the impact of her mentorship. The essays are remarkable for their breadth, in terms of both the topics discussed and the geographical range they cover. The contributions highlight the dynamism of bioarchaeology, which owes so much to the strong foundations laid down over the last few decades. The volume documents the degree to which bioarchaeological approaches have become normalized and integrated into anthropological research: bioarchaeology has moved out of the appendix and into the interpretation of archaeological data. New perspectives have emerged, partly in response to theoretical changes within anthropology, but also as a result of the engagement of the broader discipline with bioarchaeology.