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Author : Merle Greene Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760418960
Author : Merle Greene Robertson,Donnan C. Jeffers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1980-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0292780362
Author : Merle Greene Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X000168905
Author : Merle Greene Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Indian sculpture
ISBN : 0292780370
Author : Gerardo Aldana y V.,Edwin L. Barnhart
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782976431
Archaeoastronomy and the Maya illustrates archaeoastronomical approaches to ancient Mayan cultural production. The book is contextualized through a history of archaeoastronomical investigations into Mayan sites, originating in the 19th century discovery of astronomical tables within hieroglyphic books. Early 20th century archaeological excavations revealed inscriptions carved into stone that also preserved astronomical records, along with architecture that was built to reflect astronomical orientations. These materials provided the basis of a growing professionalized archaeoastronomy, blossoming in the 1970s and expanding into recent years. The chapters here exemplify the advances made in the field during the early 21st century as well as the on-going diversity of approaches, presenting new perspectives and discoveries in ancient Mayan astronomy that result from recent studies of architectural alignments, codices, epigraphy, iconography, ethnography, and calendrics. More than just investigations of esoteric ancient sciences, studies of ancient Mayan astronomy have profoundly aided our understanding of Mayan worldviews. Concepts of time and space, meanings encoded in religious art, intentions underlying architectural alignments, and even methods of political legitimization are all illuminated through the study of Mayan astronomy.
Author : John Staller,Michael Carrasco
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441904713
The significance of food and feasting to Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures has been extensively studied by archaeologists, anthropologists and art historians. Foodways studies have been critical to our understanding of early agriculture, political economies, and the domestication and management of plants and animals. Scholars from diverse fields have explored the symbolic complexity of food and its preparation, as well as the social importance of feasting in contemporary and historical societies. This book unites these disciplinary perspectives — from the social and biological sciences to art history and epigraphy — creating a work comprehensive in scope, which reveals our increasing understanding of the various roles of foods and cuisines in Mesoamerican cultures. The volume is organized thematically into three sections. Part 1 gives an overview of food and feasting practices as well as ancient economies in Mesoamerica. Part 2 details ethnographic, epigraphic and isotopic evidence of these practices. Finally, Part 3 presents the metaphoric value of food in Mesoamerican symbolism, ritual, and mythology. The resulting volume provides a thorough, interdisciplinary resource for understanding, food, feasting, and cultural practices in Mesoamerica.
Author : Damien B. Marken
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : John F. Harris
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0924171308
Author : Linda Schele
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780292736399
The key to the study of the language and history of the Classic Maya (A.D. 293–900) is the verb. Maya Glyphs: The Verbs is a comprehensive study of the verb morphology and syntax of the Maya writing system. Linda Schele's summary of methodology makes available in a single place many important discoveries and approaches to the Maya language. Hers is the first sourcebook to include so broad a range of dates and to identify for the first time so many Maya rulers and events. The admirably lucid text provides an excellent introduction to Maya hieroglyphics for the beginner, and, for the experienced Mayanist, it offers a fascinating explanation of methodology, including paraphrasing, and important information about syntactical structures, special verbal constructions, and literary conventions. Schele's extensive catalog of known verbal phrases is useful for a variety of purposes. Because it is organized according to verbal affix patterns, it provides the only available source for the distribution of such patterns in the writing system. At the same time it registers the date of each event, its agent and patient (if recorded), the dedication date of the monument on which the glyphs occur, and a pictorial illustration, rather than a T-number transcription, of each example. Extensive notes treating problems of dating, interpretation, and dynastic information contain theories about the meaning and function of the events recorded in the Maya inscriptions.
Author : Matthew G. Looper
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292778177
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 : John S. Henderson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0801482844
Theirs was one of the few complex societies to emerge in and to adapt successfully to a tropical-forest environment. Their architecture, sculpture, and painting were sophisticated and compellingly beautiful.
Author : Michael D. Coe
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500770610
The inside story of one of the great intellectual breakthroughs of our time—the first great decipherment of an ancient script—now revised and updated. In the past dozen years, Maya decipherment has made great strides, in part due to the Internet, which has made possible the truly international scope of hieroglyphic scholarship: glyphic experts can be found not only in North America, Mexico, Guatemala, and western Europe but also in Russia and the countries of eastern Europe. The third edition of this classic book takes up the thorny question of when and where the Maya script first appeared in the archaeological record, and describes efforts to decipher its meaning on the extremely early murals of San Bartolo. It includes iconographic and epigraphic investigations into how the Classic Maya perceived and recorded the human senses, a previously unknown realm of ancient Maya thought and perception. There is now compelling documentary and historical evidence bearing on the question of why and how the “breaking of the Maya code” was the achievement of Yuri V. Knorosov—a Soviet citizen totally isolated behind the Iron Curtain—and not of the leading Maya scholar of his day, Sir Eric Thompson. What does it take to make such a breakthrough, with a script of such complexity as the Maya? We now have some answers, as Michael Coe demonstrates here.
Author : Joanne Pillsbury,Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos,James A. Doyle
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397317
An introduction to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Maya Classic period Lives of the Gods reveals how ancient Maya artists evoked a pantheon as rich and complex as the more familiar Greco-Roman, Hindu-Buddhist, and Egyptian deities. Focusing on the period between A.D. 250 and 900, the authors show how this powerful cosmology informed some of the greatest creative achievements of Maya civilization.
Author : Merle Greene Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Central America
ISBN : UVA:X004187942
Author : Stephen D. Houston
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884022544
These articles mark a significant stage in the study of Maya architecture and the society that built it. They represent advances in our understandings of the past, point toward avenues for further studies, and note the distance yet to travel in fully appreciating and understanding this ancient American culture and its material remains.
