The Art Of Mesoamerica From Olmec To Aztec

Author : Mary Ellen Miller
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500775035

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Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec (Sixth) (World of Art) by Mary Ellen Miller Pdf

Mary Ellen Miller’s rich visual and scholarly survey of pre-Hispanic art and architecture, including the most recent archaeological finds. Expanded and revised in its sixth edition, The Art of Mesoamerica surveys the artistic achievements of the high pre-Hispanic civilizations of Central America—Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Aztec—as well as those of their lesser-known contemporaries. Providing an in-depth examination of central works, this book guides readers through the most iconic palaces, pyramids, sculptures, and paintings. From the Olmec colossal head 5 recovered from San Lorenzo to the Aztec calendar stone found in Mexico City’s Zocalo in 1790, this book reveals the complexity and innovation behind the art and architecture produced in pre-Hispanic civilizations. This new edition incorporates fifty new lavish color images and extensive updates based on the latest research and dozens of recent discoveries, particularly in Maya art, where excavations at Teotihuacan, the largest city of Mesoamerica, and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztecs, have yielded new sculptures.

Author : Mary Ellen Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015080865606

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The Art of Mesoamerica by Mary Ellen Miller Pdf

This edition includes new discoveries from Palenque, Mexico, where architecture and sculpture reveal a dramatic eighth century to San Bartolo, Guatemala, where Maya murals of this unprecedented complexity have been uncovered.

Author : Mary Ellen Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Indian architecture
ISBN : OCLC:1301787254

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The Art of Mesoamerica by Mary Ellen Miller Pdf

Author : Mary Ellen Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : OCLC:1012161183

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The Art of Mesoamerica by Mary Ellen Miller Pdf

Author : Michael D. Coe,Rex Koontz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015079215185

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Mexico by Michael D. Coe,Rex Koontz Pdf

Masterly....The complexities of Mexico's ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.--Library Journal

Author : Vernon L. Scarborough,David R. Wilcox
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816513600

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The Mesoamerican Ballgame by Vernon L. Scarborough,David R. Wilcox Pdf

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 : Edwin Barnhart,Vejas G. Liulevicius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : 1598039253

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Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed by Edwin Barnhart,Vejas G. Liulevicius Pdf

"Turning Points in Modern History takes you on a far-reaching journey around the globe-- from China to the Americas to New Zealand{u2014}to shed light on how two dozen of the top discoveries, inventions, political upheavals, and ideas since 1400 have shaped the modern world. Taught by award-winning history professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, these 24 thought-provoking lectures tell the amazing story of how life as we know it developed{u2014}at times advancing in one brilliant instant and at other times, in painstaking degrees. Starting in the early 15th century and culminating in the age of social media, you'll encounter astounding threads that weave through the centuries, joining these turning points in ways that may come as a revelation. You'll also witness turning points with repercussions we can only speculate about because they are still very much in the process of turning" -- from publisher's web site.

Author : Deborah L. Nichols,Christopher A. Pool
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Michael D. Coe,Javier Urcid,Rex Koontz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Indians of Mexico
ISBN : 0500293732

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Mexico by Michael D. Coe,Javier Urcid,Rex Koontz Pdf

This authoritative volume has been revised throughout and expanded, with stunning new images and accounts of the major discoveries of recent years. Recent findings have been added to expand our understanding of the Olmecs outside of their heartland, and new research on the legacy of the Maya offers a wider and more cohesive narrative of Mexico's history. New co-author Javier Urcid has added greater coverage of Oaxaca and of Monté Alban, one of the earliest cities in Mesoamerica and the center of the Zapotec civilization, and a fully revised Epilogue discusses the survival of indigenous populations in Mexico from the Conquest up to the present. This longstanding classic now features full-colour photos of the vibrant art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica throughout.

Author : Michael D. Coe
Publisher : New Word City
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640190009

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America's First Civilization by Michael D. Coe Pdf

Here is the story of America's oldest - and oddest - civilization, the Olmecs of the southern Mexican jungles. Virtually unknown to archaeologists until the early twentieth century, their true importance is only now being realized and shedding new light on how the Indian peoples of the Americas came to be here.

Author : William Leonard Fash,Leonardo López Luján
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884023443

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The Art of Urbanism by William Leonard Fash,Leonardo López Luján Pdf

The Art of Urbanism explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physicalâe"and metaphysicalâe"place via their built environment. Themes in the volume include the ways in which a kingdomâe(tm)s public monuments were fashioned to reflect geographic space, patron gods, and mythology, and how the Olmec, Maya, Mexica, Zapotecs, and others sought to center their world through architectural monuments and public art. This collection of papers addresses how communities leveraged their environment and built upon their cultural and historical roots as well as the ways that the performance of calendrical rituals and other public events tied individuals and communities to both urban centers and hinterlands. Twenty-three scholars from archaeology, anthropology, art history, and religious studies contribute new data and new perspectives to the understanding of ancient Mesoamericansâe(tm) own view of their spectacular urban and ritual centers.

Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art, Mexican
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173006243134

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Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Pdf

Fourteen Olmec specialists discuss not only the works of art but also the many recent finds, that provide insights into Mexico's most ancient culture, as well as its cultural history, cosmology, and daily life. Colour photos. Quarto.

Author : Christopher Pool
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521783125

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Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica by Christopher Pool Pdf

Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica offers the most thorough and up-to-date book-length treatment of Olmec society and culture available.

Author : Rebecca Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Andes Region
ISBN : 0500204152

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Art of the Andes by Rebecca Stone Pdf

"Fills a void in the genre. . . . Excellent descriptions and interpretations." --Latin American Antiquity

Author : Christina T. Halperin,Katherine A. Faust,Rhonda Taube,Aurore Giguet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Indian pottery
ISBN : 0813036879

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Mesoamerican Figurines by Christina T. Halperin,Katherine A. Faust,Rhonda Taube,Aurore Giguet Pdf

This book examines figurines from the Olmec to the Aztec civilizations. This book also analyzes these objects by their stylistic attributes, archaeological content, function.