3rd Edition — University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. — 544 p. This major revision of Richard E. W. Adams’s classic text on the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica adds new information available from archaeological fieldwork in the region from the 1990s through 2004 and also evaluates recent theories regarding the remarkable prehistoric cultures of a region that today encompasses...
University Press of Florida, 2015. — 312 p. Pottery sherds are the most abundant artifacts recovered from ancient Maya sites. Analyzed correctly, they 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...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 176 p. 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...
University of New Mexico Press, 2019. — 296 p. This impressive collection features the work of archaeologists who systematically explore the material and social consequences of new technological systems introduced after the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion in Mesoamerica. It is the first collection to present case studies that show how both commonplace and capital-intensive...
Papers from the International Colloquium “Sociétés mayas millénaires: crises du passé et résilience,” Musée du quai Branly Paris, July 1-2, 2011. — 2013. — 329 p. On the occasion of the exhibition MAYA. De l’aube au crépuscule: collections nationales du Guatemala (“MAYA. From Dawn to Dusk: National Collections from Guatemala”) shown at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris (France)...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2008. — 404 p. Classic-Period Cultural Currents in Southern and Central Veracruz explores the diverse traditions and dynamic interactions along the Mexican Gulf lowlands at the height of their cultural florescence. Best known for their elaborate ballgame rituals and precocious inscriptions with long-count dates, these cultures...
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2007. — 577 p. — (Quirigua Reports 4). 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...
University of Michigan Press, 2002. — 182 p. Balkansky's full-coverage survey of the Sola Valley, 65 km southwest of Oaxaca City, documents 120 sites. By combining his data with that of 13 other regions of Oaxaca, he produces a model for Zapotec state expansion that integrates colonization, diplomacy, and military conquest. He also reflects on the origins of the cacicazgo and...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 362 p. — (BAR International Series 3068/Archaeology of the Maya 9). This volume examines the economic system of the Classic Maya Lowlands center of Uxul, Campeche, a secondary center under the political influence of Calakmul. A household-based approach is used to review the urban economic system in which these households played a central role. Multiple...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 312 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 50). Dans une aire culturelle où la géographie conspire contre la fluidité des échanges, les sociétés mésoaméricaines ont su trouver des réponses techniques adaptées à leurs besoins. À une époque où l’acheminement de marchandises et de biens s’effectue principalement à dos d’homme, certaines civilisations...
University of Michigan Press, 1982. — 523 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 15). In this work, the authors interpret archaeological data on roughly 3000 years of human history in the Valley of Oaxaca, from roughly 1500 BC to AD 1500. They integrate information on settlement patterns, political and social organization, artifact distribution, and more.
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 356 p. The Early Formative Olmec are central in a wide variety of debates regarding the development of Mesoamerican societies. A fundamental issue in Olmec archaeology is the nature of interregional interaction among contemporaneous societies and the possible Olmec role in it. Previous debates have often not been informed by recent research...
University of Texas Press, 2016. — 219 p. The prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas and Coahuila, Mexico, created some of the most spectacularly complex, colorful, extensive, and enduring rock art of the ancient world. Perhaps the greatest of these masterpieces is the White Shaman mural, an intricate painting that spans some twenty-six feet in...
University of Texas Press, 2016. — 219 p. The prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas and Coahuila, Mexico, created some of the most spectacularly complex, colorful, extensive, and enduring rock art of the ancient world. Perhaps the greatest of these masterpieces is the White Shaman mural, an intricate painting that spans some twenty-six feet in...
Routledge, 2022. — 375 p. — (Routledge Archaeology of the Ancient Americas ). 3,000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands presents the cutting-edge research of 25 authors in the fields of archaeology, biological anthropology, art history, ethnohistory, and epigraphy. Together, they explore issues central to ancient Maya identity, political history, and warfare. The Maya...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. — 96 p. — ISBN: 1-58839-133-7 (pbk.), ISBN: 0-300-10488-X (Yale University Press). Catalogue to an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from Oct. 19, 2004 to Apr. 3, 2005.
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 100 p. In considering the long trajectory of human societies, researchers have too often favored models of despotic control by the few or structural models that fail to grant agency to those with less power in shaping history. Recent scholarship demonstrates such models to be not only limiting but also empirically inaccurate. This Element...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 135 p. — (BAR International Series 3115/Archaeology of the Maya 10). Habitada desde el Preclásico Medio, Xoclán se desarrolló como centro urbano a partir del Clásico Temprano. El actual parque arqueológico cuenta 52 hectáreas e incluye el área cívico-ceremonial y algunas otras plataformas, mientras que las restantes estructuras que constituyeron parte de...
Monograph. — Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013. — 97 p. — (BAR International Series 2488; Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 30). Olmeca-Xicallanca, ‘People from the Land of Rubber, People from the Land of Canoes’ – the Nahuatl name of these ethnic groups invokes the hot, alluvial coastal plains of Veracruz, Tabasco, and Campeche (Mexico). For almost a century studying the...
AltaMira Press, 2011. — 240 p. Exploring Maya Ritual Caves offers a rare survey and explication of most of the known ancient Maya ritual caves in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. The caves were the Maya underworld, where rituals, including animal and human sacrifice, were carried out. The Maya cave cult and mythology, construction and modification of the caves, and cult art and...
AltaMira Press, 2011. — 240 p. Exploring Maya Ritual Caves offers a rare survey and explication of most of the known ancient Maya ritual caves in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. The caves were the Maya underworld, where rituals, including animal and human sacrifice, were carried out. The Maya cave cult and mythology, construction and modification of the caves, and cult art and...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 309 p. — (BAR International Series 2937/Archaeology of the Maya 3). En esta obra se abarca de manera amplia los diversos tipos de caminos que construyeron los Mayas Antiguos, específicamente los caminos pavimentados conocidos como calzadas mayas o sacbeob. Como estudio de caso se analizan once sacbeob que se localizan en los sitios de Ichmul, San Felipe...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 256 p. The ancient city of Teotihuacan, North America’s first metropolis, flourished for nearly eight centuries in central Mexico until its demise in 650 C.E. Known primarily for its massive architecture and monumental wall paintings, the city - and its dazzling artwork - inspired awe in its time, and continues to do so today. Made to Order...
Archaeopress, 2014. — 131 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 3). Climate variability and human management strategies on crop stands were major factors that frequently affected agricultural yields among indigenous populations from central Mexico. This work seeks to model food production in ancient Tepeaca, a Late Postclassic (AD 1325-1521) and Early Colonial (16th...
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. — 533 p. — (The Civilization of the American Indian series; v. 144). — ISBN: 0-8061-2071-1. The Toltecs, a Postclassic people of Central Mexico, flourished from about A.D. 900 to A.D. 1179, succeeding the Teotihuacan culture and preceding the Aztec or Mexica culture. Drawing upon archaeological records and upon the...
University of Michigan Press, 1976. — 305 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 8). In the early 1970s, Robert D. Drennan excavated the Middle Formative archaeological site Fábrica San José in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. In this volume he presents the results of the excavations and provides a chronology of Middle Formative ceramics. Appendix on carbonized plant remains...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 185 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 45). The Watery Scroll rulers selected the ancient Maya site of Tamarindito as their capital. First settled around 300 BC, the site served as their seat from the fifth through the eighth century AD. After the collapse, people continued to live at Tamarindito for several generations. Archaeological...
University of Michigan Press, 2007. — 155 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 42). This volume-the fourteenth in the monograph series on the prehistory and human ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico focuses on Cerro Tilcajete, a secondary administrative center below Monte Albán, the capital of the prehispanic Zapotec state. After defeating the Tilcajete region, Monte...
University Press of Florida, 2020. — 394 p. The ancient societies of western Mexico have long been understudied and misunderstood. Focusing on recent archaeological data, Ancient West Mexicos highlights the diversity and complexity of the region’s pre-Columbian cultures and argues that western Mexico was more similar to the rest of the Mesoamerican world than many researchers...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 94 p. “Los animales enseñaron el camino…” La fauna de la Sierra Gorda queretana a través de sus representaciones cerámicas arqueológicas by María Teresa Muñoz Espinosa and José Carlos Castañeda Reyes La Sierra Gorda queretana fue declarada “Reserva de la Biosfera” el 19 de mayo de 1997, por decreto presidencial. Como área natural así protegida, son casi...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 104 p. En esta obra se propone por vez primera una interpretación integral de los elementos iconográficos e iconólogicos que muestra la escultura huasteca del denominado “Adolescente de Jalpan”, que parecen relacionarse con la iconografía asociada con el dios Quetzalcoatl y su hermano gemelo, Xolotl. Además de analizar la posible simbología de la...
Thames & Hudson, 2008. — 611 p. This authoritative book explores every aspect of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, from Paleo-Indian times to the sixteenth century. It provides overviews of the best-known regional cultures, such as those of the Olmecs, Maya, Zapotecs, and Aztecs, as well as balanced coverage of Mesoamerica as a whole. The book covers every major site, from La Venta...
University of Michigan Press, 2013. — 273 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 54). Monte Albán was the capital of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, ca. 500 BC–AD 600, but once its control began to wane, other sites filled the political vacuum. Archaeologists have long awaited a meticulous excavation of one of these sites—one that would help us better understand the process...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 224 p. — (BAR International Series 3013/Cultural Studies in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology 2). Este libro es un estudio sobre la navegación prehispánica y los paisajes culturales marítimos en Mesoamérica. La autora presenta un estudio de caso para explicar la conectividad espacial entre el Altiplano Central y la costa del Pacífico a lo largo del río...
BAR Publishing, 2024. — 308 p. — (BAR International Series 3177/Fieldiana: Anthropology 48). Archaeological investigations at the prehispanic Ejutla site in Oaxaca, Mexico, have had a foundational role in reframing our perspectives on Mesoamerican economies, specifically craft specialization. This volume reports on the excavations of a residential complex located at the...
University of Texas Press, 2022. — 280 p. The Resurrection Plate, a Late Classic Maya dish, is decorated with an arresting scene. The Maize God, assisted by two other deities, emerges reborn from a turtle shell. At the center of the plate, in the middle of the god’s body and aligned with the point of emergence, there is a curious sight: a small, neatly drilled hole. Art...
Academic Press, 1976. — 192 p. One of the classic works of archaeology, The Early Mesoamerican Village was among the first studies to fully embrace the processual movement of the 1970s. Dancing around an ongoing dialogue on methods and goals between the Real Mesoamerican Archaeologist, the Great Synthesizer, and the Skeptical Graduate Student, it is both a seminal tract on...
Updated Edition. — Routledge, 2010. — 390 p. One of the classic works of archaeology, The Early Mesoamerican Village was among the first studies to fully embrace the processual movement of the 1970s. Dancing around an ongoing dialogue on methods and goals between the Real Mesoamerican Archaeologist, the Great Synthesizer, and the Skeptical Graduate Student, it is both a seminal...
University of Michigan Press, 1994. — 426 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 27). Using more than 300 illustrations, the authors present an encyclopedic analysis of the many types of pottery found in the Oaxaca Valley in the Early Formative period. From details of sherd profiles and tempers to discussions of the growth of various villages, this volume is an...
University of Michigan Press, 2005. — 519 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 40). San José Mogote, an early village and chiefly center in Mexico’s Oaxaca Valley, was excavated over a fifteen-year period. This volume reports in detail on every Early and Middle Formative house recovered, including a complete inventory of artifacts, features, plants, animal bones, and...
University of Michigan Press, 2015. — 437 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 58). Excavations at San José Mogote 2: The Cognitive Archaeology (2015) deals with every building and feature that can shed light on indigenous ritual, religion, and political ideology. Filling 432 pages and utilizing more than 400 photographs and line drawings, this book describes in detail...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 314 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 53). In the centuries that preceded the European conquest in 1521, the central-northern region of the state of Michoacán, West Mexico, was a place of significant socio-political changes materialized by important transformations of settlement pattern and material culture. The archaeological site of El...
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 267 p. — (BAR International Series 2899/Archaeology of the Maya 1). The socio-economic nature of Late Postclassic (AD c. 1100-1500) Maya society is not well understood and still eludes researchers. Through a combination of analytical methods, including petrographic, chemical and experimental, examination of surface features and ethnographic analyses,...
The University of Utah Press, 2016. — 307 p. — ISBN: 0-87480-655-0. Edited by Michael S. Foster and Shirley Gorenstein Archaeology Mesoamerican studies, as they are still practiced today, are framed by the Spanish colonial intrusion into Mexico from the east, and subsequent involvement with the Aztec Empire. "Greater Mesoamerica" expands the definition of "Mesoamerica" beyond...
Routledge, 2010. — 176 p. When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise of such famous cities as Palenque, Copan and Yaxchilan, Maya civilization was already nearly a millennium old. Its first cities, such as Nakbe and El Mirador, had...
University Press of Florida, 2017. — 544 p. The emergence of complex society in the Maya lowlands during the first millennium BCE involved a confluence of factors including the adoption of staple maize as a major source of food, the establishment of stable sedentary communities focused on public centers, and ultimately the birth of the institution of divine kingship harnessed to a...
University Press of Colorado, 2016. — 312 p. Complex and time-consuming to produce, iron-ore mirrors stand out among Prehispanic artifacts for their aesthetic beauty, their symbolic implications, and the complexity and skill of their assembly. Manufactured Light presents the latest archaeological research on these items, focusing on the intersection of their significance and...
University Press of Florida, 2003. — 448 p. Over half a century ago, the late Gordon Willey began his research in the Belize Valley, and ten years later he published a synthesis of his data that is recognized today as a classic study of ancient Maya settlement patterns. This new volume looks at the abundant research that has taken place in the region since the 1950s (and includes...
University of Utah Press, 2016. — 288 p. The Pacific coast and southern highlands of Chiapas and Guatemala is a region significant to debates about the origins of social complexity, interaction, and colonialism. The area, however, has received uneven attention and much of what we know is largely restricted to the Preclassic period. This theoretically eclectic volume presents...
BAR Publishing, 1988. — 158 p. — (BAR International Series 464). The primary importance of the Cuello site lies in its continuous sequence of Preclassic or Formative occupation represented in Platform 34, which dates back into the Early Preclassic. Ten of the thirty-seven structures exposed in the Main Trench excavated through Platform 34 date to the Early Preclassic Period....
University Press of Colorado, 2015. — 400 p. This volume explores the dynamics of human adaptation to social, political, ideological, economic, and environmental factors in Mesoamerica and includes a wide array of topics, such as the hydrological engineering behind Teotihuacan’s layout, the complexities of agriculture and sustainability in the Maya lowlands, and the nuanced...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 328 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 54). Toniná fue una ciudad maya, localizada entre dos áreas culturales hacia los Altos de Chiapas. Se ha planteado de manera generalizada que el colapso maya implicó la desaparición y despoblamiento de muchas ciudades; en esta investigación se aborda la pervivencia de Toniná hacia el umbral del Posclásico....
Niwot: University of Colorado Press, 1993. — xvi + 336 p. — ISBN: 0870812556, 9780870812552. Reinterpreting Prehistory of Central America provides reassessments of the paradigms that have guided - sometimes unconsciously and uncritically - interpretations of ancient Central American society, culture, and art. This volume challenges prevailing notions of Mesoamerica and other...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 278 p. In this book, Julia Guernsey examines the relationship between human figuration, fragmentation, bodily divisibility, personhood, and community in ancient Mesoamerica. Contending that representation of the human body in the pre-classic period gradually became a privileged act, she argues that human figuration as well as the...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 245 p. This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity. Julia Guernsey situates the origins and evolution of monumental stone sculpture within a broader social and political context and demonstrates the role that such sculpture played in creating...
University of Texas Press, 2014. — 320 p. Rather than view the contours of Late Classic Maya social life solely from towering temple pyramids or elite sculptural forms, this book considers a suite of small anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and supernatural figurative remains excavated from household refuse deposits. Maya Figurine s examines these often neglected objects and uses them...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 289 p. — (BAR International Series 2956/UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series 2). This work represents the archaeological investigation of a distinctive zone of the Three Rivers Region (TRR) of far northwestern Belize. The zone is dominated by the Alacranes Bajo, a seasonally inundated karstic depression bordered by the settlements of Nojol Nah and...
Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2008. — 64 p. — (National Geographic Investigates). — ISBN 978-1-4263-0227-5. The ancestral homeland of the Maya spans five centuries of history in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. Archaeologists have searched the region for years, looking for clues to the lives of the Maya people. Look at the fascinating hieroglyphic...
University of Utah Press, 2012. — 192 p. The contributions to this volume represent a diverse array of Mesoamerican archaeological studies that are all theo-retically rooted to larger, global debates concerning issues of power and identity—two logically paired concepts. While social identity has been the focus of more critical analysis in recent years, the concept of power has...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 158 p. — (University Museum Monograph 151; Tikal Report 17). This volume reports on excavations carried out by Peter D. Harrison in the early 1960s in the West Plaza of the Maya center of Tikal, Guatemala. Primarily descriptive in nature, this work is an important compliment to Tikal Report No. 14: Excavations in the Great Plaza, North...
Lyons Press, 2012. — 304 p. A book perfectly timed for the re-setting of the Maya calendar in 2012... Part history, popular science, armchair travel, and real-life treasure hunt, this is the story of pre-Columbian jade - the precious stone revered by ancient Aztecs, Incans, and Maya - and the scientists, collectors, explorers and entrepreneurs who have been searching for the...
Lyons Press, 2012. — 304 p. A book perfectly timed for the re-setting of the Maya calendar in 2012... Part history, popular science, armchair travel, and real-life treasure hunt, this is the story of pre-Columbian jade - the precious stone revered by ancient Aztecs, Incans, and Maya - and the scientists, collectors, explorers and entrepreneurs who have been searching for the...
Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. — xvi, 292 p. — (Material Worlds). — ISBN: 978-0-8223-4693-7. In Houses in a Landscape , Julia A. Hendon examines the connections between social identity and social memory using archaeological research on indigenous societies that existed more than one thousand years ago in what is now Honduras. While these societies left behind monumental...
University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 272 p. 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...
2nd Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 425 p. Mesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice , Second Edition, provides readers with a diverse and well-balanced view of the archaeology of the indigenous societies of Mexico and Central America, helping students better understand key concepts and engage with contemporary debates and issues within the field. The fully updated...
2nd Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 425 p. Mesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice , Second Edition, provides readers with a diverse and well-balanced view of the archaeology of the indigenous societies of Mexico and Central America, helping students better understand key concepts and engage with contemporary debates and issues within the field. The fully updated...
Brill, 2011. — 268 p. — (The Early Americas: History and Culture 2). The Spanish colonization dramatically interrupted the autonomous development of ancient Mesoamerican culture. Nevertheless, indigenous societies learnt to live with the conquest. It was not only a time of crisis, but also an extraordinarily creative time period in which material culture reflected indigenous...
University of Michigan Press, 1984. — 183 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 18). The building blocks of the Aztec state were smaller, local polities known as city-states. Author Mary G. Hodge selected five city-states in the Valley of Mexico (Amecameca, Cuauhtitlan, Xochimilco, Coyoacan, and Teotihuacan) for detailed study of their internal organization.
University of Michigan Press, 1989. — 145 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 22). Author Denise C. Hodges examines the osteological remains from 14 archaeological sites in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, in an attempt to address the relationship between the intensification of agriculture and the health status of the prehistoric population. Volume 9 of the subseries...
Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz, 2017. — 156 p. The publication presents a detailed architectural documentation and reconstruction of the impressive 1,275-years-old, three-story temple-palace of Santa Rosa Xtampak in Campeche, Mexico. The analysis of the 17 m high 50-room structure with two inner staircases revealed unusual construction principles and serious static...
University of Michigan Press, 1984. — 163 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 17). In this volume, Joseph W. Hopkins III reconstructs the history of the Cuicatec region in Oaxaca, Mexico, from the Aztec empire through the Spanish conquest and into the twentieth century. Hopkins also discusses the archaeology of the region with a particular focus on irrigation systems...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 346 p. — (BAR International Series 3009/Archaeology of the Maya 7). This study examines the origins of complex society in the Maya Lowlands during the Middle Preclassic period. Excavations at Cahal Pech - a mid-sized Maya settlement in the Belize River Valley - revealed complex architectural sequences over a 600-year developmental period, which spans the...
University Press of Florida, 2020. — 496 p. — (Maya Studies). This volume brings together a wide spectrum of new approaches to ancient Maya studies in an innovative exploration of how the Preclassic and Classic Maya shaped their world. Moving beyond the towering temples and palaces typically associated with the Maya civilization, contributors present unconventional examples of...
Getty Research Institute, 2021. — 192 p. The first study devoted to a single sculptor in ancient America, as understood through four unprovenanced masterworks traced to a small sector of Guatemala. In 1950, Dana Lamb, an explorer of some notoriety, stumbled on a Maya ruin in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala. Lamb failed to record the location of the site he called...
Westview Press, 2001. — 292 p. The two volumes of Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya provide current archaeological perspectives on Maya courts conceived as vital, functioning social groups composed of lords, courtiers, scribes, priests, and entertainers, among many others. In addition to archaeological data on the architecture and other spatial attributes of courts, the studies...
Westview Press, 2001. — 432 p. The two volumes of Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya provide current archaeological perspectives on Maya courts conceived as vital, functioning social groups composed of lords, courtiers, scribes, priests, and entertainers, among many others. In addition to archaeological data on the architecture and other spatial attributes of courts, the studies in...
University of Alabama Press, 2000. — 400 p. Jacobi's groundbreaking osteology study uncovers the history of the Tipu Maya of Belize and their subsequent contact with the Spanish conquistadores and missionaries. Two cultures collided at Tipu, Belize, in the 1600s: that of the native Maya and that of the Spanish missionaries, who arrived with an agenda of religious subjugation and,...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 238 p. — (BAR International Series 3055/Archaeology of the Maya 8). Both the perceived successes and failures of the Maya are often linked to their relationship with the local environment and their response to episodes of climate change over a period of nearly 2000 years. However, our understanding of human responses to environmental stress has mostly...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. — 267 p. — (University Museum Monograph 44; Tikal Report 33). This study treats the entire corpus of stone and wood monuments from the Maya site of Tikal and lesser periphery locations. Each description includes details of provenience and condition. Every carved surface is illustrated by a standardized scale drawing, supplemented in...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2014. — 248 p. Stelae dating to the Epiclassic (650-900 CE) and Early Postclassic (950-1150 CE) from Tula, Xochicalco, and other sites in Central Mexico have been presented in the archaeological and art historical literature of the last four decades - when they have been addressed at all - as evidence of Classic Maya ‘influence’ on Central Mexican art...
Brill, 2017. — 396 p. — (The Early Americas: History and Culture 6). 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. Previously treated as a marginal product of...
Routledge, 2012. — 256 p. Crystal skulls, imaginative codices, dubious Olmec heads and cute Colima dogs. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Mesoamerican art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Nancy Kelker and Karen Bruhns examine the phenomenon in this eye-opening volume. They discuss the most commonly forged classes and styles of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. — ISBN: 0806128615, 9780806128610. Tikal, Cop?n, Uaxact?n - ancient Maya cities whose names conjure up romance, mystery, and science all at once. Joyce Kelly’s clear descriptions and captivating photographs of these and many other sites will make you want to pack your bags and head for Central America. And when you arrive, this guidebook will...
University of Alabama Press, 1992. — 352 p. The prehistoric agricultural systems of the New World provided the foundations for a diverse set of complex social developments ranging from the puebloan societies of the American Southwest to the archaic state polities of Mesoamerica and the Andean region. From the tropical forests of Central America to the arid environments or northern...
University of Michigan Press, 1973. — 204 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 5). In the first volume of a series on Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca, Anne V. T. Kirkby investigated the agricultural production in the valley. With land-use data gathered at the time of her study (the 1960s), she created population and distribution models to help...
Westview Press, 2001. — 410 p. — ISBN 10 0813337321, ISBN 13 9780813337326. From the early cities in the second millennium BC to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan on the eve of the Spanish conquest, Ancient Mesoamericans created landscapes full of meaning and power in the center of their urban spaces. The sixteenth century description of Tenochtitlan by Bernal Diaz del Castillo...
University of Texas Press, 2009. - 152 p. El Tajin, an ancient Mesoamerican capital in Veracruz, Mexico, has long been admired for its stunning pyramids and ballcourts decorated with extensive sculptural programs. Yet the city's singularity as the only center in the region with such a wealth of sculpture and fine architecture has hindered attempts to place it more firmly in the...
University Press of Colorado, 2008. — 552 p. Combining older findings with new data on 1,000 previously undescribed archaeological sites, Origins of the Ñuu presents the cultural evolution of the Mixteca Alta in an up-to-date chronological framework. The Ñuu - the kingdoms of the famous Mixtec codices - are traced back through the Postclassic and Classic periods to their...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 185 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 56). El friso de la Estructura 1-A Sub de Balamkú, Campeche, es una de las más complejas expresiones artísticas mayas del periodo Clásico (250-900 d.C.) enfocadas en la exaltación de los gobernantes sagrados. Comprender integralmente este monumento no requiere que únicamente sea analizando bajo las lupas...
University of Michigan Press, 1973. — 164 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 6). In order to study canal irrigation in the Valley of Oaxaca, archaeologist Susan H. Lees visited more than 20 villages in the region. She interviewed residents and photographed local water systems. In this volume, Lees analyzes the relationship between water control and local and state...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 611 p. — (BAR International Series 2855). Cette recherche de doctorat est le fruit d’une analyse innovante de l’architecture méso-américaine, et plus précisément de la planification urbaine et du temple mayas. Elle touche aux domaines de l’archéologie, de l’anthropologie, de la symbolique et de la sémiologie. L’auteur montre, grâce à une documentation...
University of Alabama Press, 2003. — 260 p. The publication of this book makes available once more the important work carried out by the Swedish archaeologist Sigvald Linne (1899-1986) on the site of Xolalpan, part of the Teotihuacan complex in Mexico. Originally published in 1934, and now with a new foreword by Staffan Brunius and an introduction by George L Cowgill, Linne's...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 242 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 14). From Ritual to Refuse explores the faunal exploitation by the Maya elite at the site of Chinikihá, Chiapas, during the end of the Late Classic period (AD 700-850) by applying zooarchaeological and statistical analyses to a faunal assemblage located in a basurero or midden behind a palatial structure at...
BAR Publishing, 2014. — 193 p. — (BAR International Series 2693). Prehispanic Maya architecture features a large variety of artistic expression, from reliefs and sculptures made of stone or stucco to mural paintings and graffiti found on the plastered surfaces of their walls and façades. All of this constitutes both animportant artistic component which complements the...
BAR Publishing, 2014. — 193 p. — (BAR International Series 2693). Prehispanic Maya architecture features a large variety of artistic expression, from reliefs and sculptures made of stone or stucco to mural paintings and graffiti found on the plastered surfaces of their walls and façades. All of this constitutes both animportant artistic component which complements the...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 350 p. Urbanization is a phenomenon that brings into focus a range of topics of broad interest to scholars. It is one of the central, enduring interests of anthropological archaeology. Because urbanization is a transformational process, it changes the relationships between social and cultural variables such as demography, economy, politics,...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 49 p. Buried beneath modern Mexico City lie the remnants of a nearly 700-year old city that the Spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes described as the most beautiful in the world. During the time of the Aztecs, Tenochtitlan was located in the middle of a shining blue lake and was home to more than 200,000 people. Tenochtitlan was bigger, cleaner, and...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019. — 156 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 10). In the early sixteenth century much of West México was under the rule of the Purhépecha Empire, known to Europeans as the Tarascan Kingdom of Michuacan. Both archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence indicate that during the Late Postclassic Period (A.D. 1350-1525) this political unit was...
University Press of Florida, 2017. — 282 p. — ISBN13 9780813054285. — ISBN10 0813054281. Like modern-day New York City, the ancient city of Teotihuacan in Central Mexico was built by a flood of immigrants who created a complex and diverse urban landscape. The city benefited from the knowledge, technical expertise, and experience that foreigners brought. The neighborhoods also...
University of Michigan Press, 1998. — 360 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 33). This book covers divination, figurine-making, and women’s ritual treatment of ancestors in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, from 1600 to 500 BC.
AltaMira Press, 2007. — 320 p. Palenque is one of the best known and oldest Mayan archaeological sites. But recently little has been published on the ongoing work here. Marken's collection brings the archaeological record of Palenque up to date. Chapters cover a wide range of topics from architecture to hieroglyphic texts, from broad issues of chronology to settlement to...
University Press of Colorado, 2023. — 530 p. Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism tears down entrenched misconceptions of Maya cities to build a new archaeology of Maya urbanism by highlighting the residential dynamics that underwrote one of the most famous and debated civilizations of the ancient Americas. Exploring the diverse yet interrelated agents and processes that...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 188 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 54). Los antiguos mayas emplearon fundamentalmente herramientas de piedra, tanto tallada como pulida, para lograr su extraordinario desarrollo. Sin embargo, los trabajos centrados en este aspecto todavía son poco frecuentes. En este trabajo se presenta el análisis tecno-tipológico de los materiales líticos...
1889. — 262 p. A high-resolution album of photographs of Mesoamerican archaeological remains, taken around 1880. Interesting in themselves as well as witnessing the original state of many findings, the album lacks nevertheless any text, which probably was separately presented in another volume: perhaps in Alfred P. Maudslay, A Glimpse at Guatemala, or (later) in José Imbelloni,...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 392 p. The decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs has enabled scholars to better understand Classic society, but many aspects of this civilization remain shrouded in mystery, particularly its economies and social structures. How did farmers, artisans, and rulers make a living in a tropical forest environment? In this study, Patricia McAnany tackles...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 232 p. — (BAR International Series 3007/Archaeology of the Maya 6). At Lamanai and Ka’kabish, two Precolumbian Maya centres in north-western Belize, archaeologists have researched the environment, architecture, and long-term occupation of the civic-ceremonial centres. The sites’ rural or hinterland populations, however, which were presumably critical to...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 370 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 48). This volume has two main objectives: establishing a chronology of the Middle Balsas and detailing the region’s pottery production methods. The author posits that pottery intended for different functions was often deliberately made and/or decorated in ways that were chosen to make the vessels more...
Routledge, 2003. — 208 p. Examining a wide range of archaeological data, and using it to explore issues such as the sexual body, mind/body dualism, body modification, and magical practices, Lynn Meskell and Rosemary Joyce offer a new approach to the Ancient Egyptian and Mayan understanding of embodiment. Drawing on insights from feminist theory, art history, phenomenology,...
Routledge, 2003. — 208 p. Examining a wide range of archaeological data, and using it to explore issues such as the sexual body, mind/body dualism, body modification, and magical practices, Lynn Meskell and Rosemary Joyce offer a new approach to the Ancient Egyptian and Mayan understanding of embodiment. Drawing on insights from feminist theory, art history, phenomenology,...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 155 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 46). This publication presents the results of the archaeological studies relative to the settlement pattern, realized between 1983 and 1996 within the framework of the Michoacán Projects I and III led by the researchers of the Centre of Mexican and Centro-American studies (CEMCA). The Michoacán project...
University of Arizona Press, 2024. — 290 p. The result of nearly twenty years of interdisciplinary research, this volume contributes to the archaeological and paleoenvironmental knowledge of an important but lightly investigated hyperarid coastline at the heart of the Sonoran Desert. Focused on the coast near Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico, Coastal Foragers of the Gran Desierto...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 158 p. — (University Museum Monograph 135; Tikal Report 37). The pre-Columbian city we call Tikal was abandoned by its Maya residents during the tenth century A.D. and succumbed to the Guatemalan rain forest. It was not until 1848 that it was brought to the attention of the outside world. For the next century Tikal, remote and isolated,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. — 288 p. — (University Museum Monograph 118; Tikal Report 27: Part B). Occupied continuously for 1,500 years, Tikal was the most important demographic, economic, administrative, and ritual center of its region. The collection of materials recovered at Tikal is the largest and most diverse known from the Lowlands. This book provides a...
University Press of Colorado, 2022. — 302 p. Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands explores what has been required of the Maya to survive both internal and external threats and other destabilizing forces. These include shifting power dynamics and sociocultural transformations, tumultuous political regimes, the precarity of newly formed nation states, migration in search of refuge,...
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 206 p. — (BAR International Series 2910/Archaeology of the Maya 2). As integrated and varied ritual contexts, how do changing patterns of pre-Columbian cave use inform the complex of historical, social, political, economic and related ideological processes in action during the inception, florescence, and collapse of Tipan Chen Uitz and other ancient Maya...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 995 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–539093–3. The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, this text also includes coverage of important new work by archaeologists on the Colonial and Republican periods. Unique among recent...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 1000 p. 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,...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 1000 p. 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,...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 288 p. In this book, Alexander Parmington combines an examination of space, access control and sculptural themes and placement, to propose how images and texts controlled movement in Classic Maya cities. Using Palenque as a case study, this book analyzes specific building groups and sculptures to provide insight into the hierarchical...
University of Michigan Press, 1987. — 195 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 20). Chipped stone tools from archaeological sites can be a source of social and economic information about the inhabitants. In this volume, author William J. Parry presents his analysis of chipped stone tools found at Early and Middle Formative sites in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Volume 8...
University of Michigan Press, 2008. — 457 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 45). This monograph presents data from a systematic regional archaeological survey carried out over an area of ca. 600 square kilometers during May through December 1973 by the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology.
University of Michigan Press, 1971. — 468 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 3). In this volume, archaeologist Jeffrey R. Parsons presents research based on an extensive 1967 survey of the Texcoco Region in the Valley of Mexico. The sites are organized by time period, from Middle Formative to Aztec. Parsons describes the sites in detail and compares them to those of...
University of Michigan Press, 1982. — 521 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 14). Extensive description and analysis of the archaeological settlement data collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the Chalco-Xochimilco Region in the Valley of Mexico.
University of Michigan Press, 1975. — 130 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 7). For this volume, archaeologist Jane W. Pires-Ferreira analyzed artifacts from the Valley of Oaxaca in order to understand more about prehistoric trade patterns in the region. Using her analyses, she was able to describe obsidian exchange networks, iron ore mirror exchange networks, and...
BAR Publishing, 2004. — 273 p. — (BAR International Series 1324). This study considers a set of buildings in the Lowland Maya area of Mexico and Central America that is defined by its association with the indigenous architectural classification otoot, "dwelling." The structures in this group are, in their physical form, representative of a larger set of Maya buildings that...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 183 p. — (BAR International Series 2879). This book examines health indicators in sites in northern Belize and compares the results to the larger context of the health of the ancient lowland Maya. The research was completed through the analysis of the skeletal populations of three sites and by comparing results both within and among those sites.
Los Angeles: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 2002. — 141 p. — (Monograph 46). — ISBN: 1-931745-00-5. Although the concepts and patterns of ritual varied through time in relation to general sociopolitical transformations and local historical circumstances in ancient Mesoamerica, most archaeologists would agree that certain underlying themes and structures modeled...
University Of Iowa Press, 2004. — 238 p. Writing in the first person with a balance between informal language and academic theory, Quilter concludes that Rivas was a ceremonial center for mortuary rituals to bury chiefly elite on the Panteón. Through the use of his narrative technique, he provides the reader with accounts of discoveries as they occurred in fieldwork and the...
University of Michigan Press, 1983. — 235 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 16). In this volume, Elsa M. Redmond reconstructs the history of the Cuicatec region in Oaxaca, Mexico, from the Middle Formative period through the Lomas phase, when the Zapotec state based at Monte Albán took control, into the Trujano phase and the Spanish conquest. Redmond integrates...
University Press of Colorado, 2019. — 304 p. Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos explores the sociocultural significance of more than three hundred Middle Preclassic Maya figurines uncovered at the site of Nixtun-Ch'ich' on Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala. In this careful, holistic, and detailed analysis of the Petén lakes figurines - hand-modeled, terracotta anthropomorphic...
University Press of Colorado, 2019. — 304 p. Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos explores the sociocultural significance of more than three hundred Middle Preclassic Maya figurines uncovered at the site of Nixtun-Ch'ich' on Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala. In this careful, holistic, and detailed analysis of the Petén lakes figurines - hand-modeled, terracotta anthropomorphic...
University Press of Colorado, 2018. — 504 p. Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Itzas of Petén, Guatemala is the first exhaustively detailed and thorough account of the Itzas - a Maya group that dominated much of the western lowland area of tropical forest, swamps, and grasslands in Petén, Guatemala. Examining archaeological and historical evidence, Prudence Rice...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 396 p. — ISBN 10 0521111021, ISBN 13 9780521111027. Product Description: Mesoamerica is one of a several cradles of civilization in the world. In this book, Robert M. Rosenswig proposes that we understand Early Formative Mesoamerica as an archipelago of complex societies that interacted with one another over long distances and that were...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 173 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 8). The authors assembled in this volume share a common research interest in the Puuc region of Mexico, a hilly landscape that stretches from the southern portion of the state of Yucatán into northern Campeche. As a collection, the papers demonstrate a myriad of approaches to the history of this area,...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 115 p. — (BAR International Series 2945). Este trabajo es una propuesta para estudiar la organización social descentralizada en la Mixteca Alta. Para ello nos focalizamos en el estudio del sitio arqueológico El Alvarado en asociación a otros sitios menores ubicados en el Valle de Tlaxiaco. El objetivo fue tener un acercamiento a la organización social a...
University of Texas Press, 2015. — 336 p. From the tombs of the elite to the graves of commoners, mortuary remains offer rich insights into Classic Maya society. In Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul , the anthropological archaeologist and bioarchaeologist Andrew K. Scherer explores the broad range of burial practices among the Maya of the Classic...
University of Texas Press, 2015. — 336 p. From the tombs of the elite to the graves of commoners, mortuary remains offer rich insights into Classic Maya society. In Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul , the anthropological archaeologist and bioarchaeologist Andrew K. Scherer explores the broad range of burial practices among the Maya of the Classic...
University of Texas Press, 2015. — 336 p. From the tombs of the elite to the graves of commoners, mortuary remains offer rich insights into Classic Maya society. In Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul , the anthropological archaeologist and bioarchaeologist Andrew K. Scherer explores the broad range of burial practices among the Maya of the Classic...
2nd Edition — University of Arizona Press, 2011. — 192 p. In The Life-Giving Stone , Michael Searcy provides a thought-provoking ethnoarchaeological account of metate and mano manufacture, marketing, and use among Guatemalan Maya for whom these stone implements are still essential equipment in everyday life and diet. Although many archaeologists have regarded these artifacts...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 545 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 9). This research seeks to close an essential research gap – the understanding of the water management strategies of the Maya in pre-Hispanic times. It focuses on the archaeological investigation of the hydraulic system of Uxul, a medium-sized Maya centre in the south of the state of Campeche, Mexico. Since...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 85 p. — (BAR International Series 2767). In 1992, in the context of the Archaeological Project Teotihuacan 92-94 under the direction of Eduardo Matos Montezuma , two caves in the southeast of the Pyramid of the Sun were excavated. The undertaken research demonstrated the use of these caves by teotihuacanos in a ceremonial context but also by the cultures...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 416 p. The archaeological culture known as the Olmec has long been associated with the genesis of civilization in Mexico - the transition from simple, agricultural societies to near-urban states during the Mesoamerican Formative, which culminated in the empire of the Maya. This volume brings together ten archaeologists working on the period...
University of New Mexico Press, 2015. — 344 p. In recent years the Cochuah region, the ancient breadbasket of the north-central Yucatecan lowlands, has been documented and analyzed by a number of archaeologists and cultural anthropologists. This book, the first major collection of data from those investigations, presents and analyzes findings on more than eighty sites and puts...
University of Arizona Press, 2005. — 308 p. Mexico’s southern state of Quintana Roo is often perceived by archaeologists as a blank spot on the map of the Maya world, a region generally assumed to hold little of interest thanks to its relative isolation from the rest of Mexico. But salvage archaeology required by recent development along the “Maya Riviera,” along with a suite...
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. — xii, 226 p. — ISBN: 0-292-77761-2. On an August evening around AD 600, residents of the Cerén village in the Zapotitán Valley of what is now El Salvador were sitting down to their nightly meal when ground tremors and loud steam emissions warned of an impending volcanic eruption. The villagers fled, leaving their town to be buried under...
2nd Edition — Cengage Learning, 2005. — 160 p. Discovered in 1976 by Sheets, and under continuous excavation and study since, the spectacular Ceren site provides us with an unusually clear window into the ancient past with which to view family activities on the frontier of the Mayan civilization. Since volcanic ash did not allow people to selectively remove artifacts, the site...
University Press of Colorado, 2012. — 288 p. Presenting the latest in archaeometallurgical research in a Mesoamerican context, Archaeometallurgy in Mesoamerica brings together up-to-date research from the most notable scholars in the field. These contributors analyze data from a variety of sites, examining current approaches to the study of archaeometallurgy in the region as...
University of Michigan Press, 1978. — 198 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 10). In Part I of this volume, C. Earle Smith draws on years of survey in the Oaxaca Valley and archaeological discoveries of plant remains in the region to create a portrait of the valley’s original wild vegetation, previous to human settlement. In Part 2, Ellen Messer provides the results of...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 632 p. — (BAR International Series 2929). Este libro es un informe sobre las excavaciones en el sitio del período azteca de Yautepec, en el estado mexicano de Morelos. Las excavaciones se centraron en las estructuras domésticas, particularmente su arquitectura y los depósitos ricos de basuras asociados. La mayoría de los residentes vivían en pequeñas...
Springer, 2010. — 690 p. 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...
Springer, 2010. - 691 p. 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...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2014. — 532 p. This volume was conceived to provide a forum for Mexican and foreign scholars to publish new data and interpretations on the archaeology of the northern Maya lowlands, specifically the State of Yucatán. Increased communication among scholars has become increasingly important for grasping a better understanding of the great amount of data...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 209 p. — (BAR International Series 2757/Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 43). From 1956 to 1970 excavations at Tikal, one of the most famous classical Maya sites, was carried out by the University of Pennsylvania Museum Tikal Project. Until now, much of the field research from these excavations has remained unpublished. This volume draws on the...
University Press of Colorado, 2021. — 564 p. The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya is the first edited volume in a quarter century to provide an overview of this fascinating archaeological subarea of Mesoamerica, encompassing Pacific Nicaragua and northwestern Costa Rica. Inhabited by diverse peoples of Mesoamerican origin centuries before Spanish colonization, Greater Nicoya...
Archaeopress, 2011. — 305 p. — (BAR International Series 2203/ Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 26). The results of a comprehensive new survey between 1996-2006 of the B'aakal region of Mexico. Includes appendices of flora and fauna, a gazetteer of sites and mapping. Spanish text.
Thames & Hudson, 2008. — 272 p. Sunday, June 15, 1952. Having spent four years clearing a secret passage inside Palenque's Temple of the Inscriptions, Mexican archaeologist Alberto Ruz gazed into a vaulted chamber. There, beneath a gigantic carved stone block, he would make a spectacular discovery: the intact burial of King Pakal, complete with jade jewelry and an exquisite...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 302 p.
Teotihuacan was one of the earliest and more populous pre-Columbian cities, and the Feathered Serpent was its vital monument, erected circa AD
200. This work explores the religious meanings and political implications of the pyramid with meticulous and thorough analyses of substantially new excavation data. Challenging the...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 242 p. The present bibliography of contributions in French to Mesoamerican studies aims to serve several purposes. For more than a century, Spanish, English and French were the three official languages of the International Congresses of Americanists. This situation stems from historical reasons: the first Congresses took place in Nancy, Luxemburg and...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 326 p. — (BAR International Series 2985/Archaeology of the Maya 5). El paisaje urbano maya: del Preclásico al Virreinato lleva a cabo una reflexión en torno a ese término en el ámbito de la cultura maya. El volumen se aproxima desde diferentes perspectivas: urbano, contextual, arquitectónico e iconográfico, es decir, todos aquellos aspectos que inciden...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 111 p. — (BAR International Series 2854). Durante los días 23,24 y 25 de octubre de 2014 se desarrolló en Mérida (Yucatán, México) dentro de Festival de Cultura Maya (FICMAYA) el congreso Cultura y Patrimonio Mexicano del siglo XXI orientado a reflexionar en torno a diferentes aspectos tipos de patrimonio (arqueológico, arquitectónico, documental),...
University of Texas Press, 2012. - 339 p. Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines. In this groundbreaking study, Carolyn Tate demonstrates that these subjects were part of a major emphasis on gestational imagery in Formative...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2004. - 246 p.
Olmec art held a special place in the heart of Robert Woods Bliss, who built the collection now housed at Dumbarton Oaks and who, with his wife, Mildred, conveyed the gardens, grounds, buildings, library, and collections to Harvard University. The first object he purchased, in 1912, was an Olmec statuette (Pl. 8);...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 424 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 60). 1975. Las pinturas murales de Cacaxtla se descubren de manera fortuita. Provocan emoción en la comunidad mesoamericanista por su original estilo, en el cruce de tradiciones del Altiplano Central, de la zona maya y de la costa del Golfo. Vibrantes referencias policromas, también hacen eco a los paneles...
University of Arizona Press, 2017. — 342 p. This volume illuminates human lifeways in the northern Maya lowlands prior to the rise of Chichén Itzá. This period and area have been poorly understood on their own terms, obscured by scholarly focus on the central lowland Maya kingdoms. Before Kukulkán is anchored in three decades of interdisciplinary research at the Classic Maya...
University of Texas Press, 2025. — 256 p. A study of Maya dental modification from archaeological sites spanning three millennia. Dental modification was common across ancient societies, but perhaps none were more avid practitioners than the Maya. They filed their teeth flat or pointy, polished and drilled them, and crafted decorative inlays of jade and pyrite. Unusually, Maya...
Springer, 2014. - 269 p. - (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology 7)
The artificial shaping of the skull vault of infants expresses fundamental aspects of crafted beauty, of identity, status and gender in a way no other body practice does. Combining different sources of information, this volume contributes new interpretations on Mesoamerican head shaping traditions....
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. — 127 p. — (University Museum Monograph 57; Tikal Report 31). The graffiti incised on walls and other surfaces at the site of Tikal, Guatemala, afford an important and fascinating glimpse into a little-explored area of Classic Maya life. This wealth of figural and symbolic material was produced by the inhabitants of Tikal over a span of...
University of Texas Press, 2006. - 257 p.
The Olmec who anciently inhabited Mexico's southern Gulf Coast organized their once-egalitarian society into chiefdoms during the Formative period (1400 BC to AD 300). This increase in political complexity coincided with the development of village agriculture, which has led scholars to theorize that agricultural surpluses gave aspiring...
University Press of Colorado, 2023. — 670 p. Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya summarizes archaeological researchers’ current views on the adoption and first use of pottery across the Maya lowlands. Covering the early Middle Preclassic period, when communities began using and producing pottery for the first time (roughly 1000–600 BC),...
Second Edition. — New York: Academic Press, 1981. — xxiii, 597 p. — (Studies in Archaeology). — ISBN: 0-12-785936-5. The excellent reception accorded to the first edition of The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors encouraged me to embark on a second which, like the first, is directed toward students and travelers with more than casual interest in the archaeology of...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 360 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 59). The Skyband Group is an impressive elite site in the urban core of Copán, Honduras, which is dominated by the palatial compounds of Maya sub-royal nobles. Such grandees often bore court titles showing that they were clients and officials of kings, but also competitors for political power, especially...
University Press of Colorado, 2006-2012. — 2210 p. This complete set of reports from the Carnegie Institution's Maya program collects in one thematically and regionally organized volume hundreds of documents from a foundational New World archaeological project. The Carnegie Institution of Washington sponsored archaeological, ethnographic, linguistic, and historical investigations...
British Archaeological Reports, 1988. — 394 p. — (BAR International Series 409). Perusal of any of the previous descriptions of lowland Maya burials would reveal inconsistent and confused definitions of the terminology relating to burials and the classification of graves. The first procedure in this study, therefore, was to establish a well defined classification scheme of...
University of Michigan Press, 1981. — 240 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 12). In 1974, Michael E. Whalen excavated the Formative site of Tomaltepec, a village with houses, public buildings, and a large cemetery. Here he reports on the results of the excavation and provides a regional perspective on Formative period development in the Valley of Oaxaca.
University Press of Florida, 2018. — 272 p. This volume offers a novel interdisciplinary approach to researching population history in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. In studies that combine bioarchaeology, ethnohistory, mortuary archaeology, and dental morphology, contributors demonstrate the challenges and rewards of such integrative work when applied to large regional questions....
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. — xiv, 245 p. — ISBN 0-8263-0937-2. The essays in this book illustrate the quality that Jeremy Sabloff identifies as Gordon Willey’s outstanding contribution, the ability to synthesize the nature of archaeological research. Four of the essays were summary chapters in volumes that resulted from School of American Research...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 466 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 12). This book presents a discussion of the culture history of ancient West Mexico from the time of the first human inhabitants until the last cultural developments that took place before the Spanish invasion in the 16th century. The overall narrative is played out within the context of the Mesoamerican...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 416 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 16). El estudio reexamina y contextualiza las investigaciones de Eduard Seler en la región de Chaculá (Departamento de Huehuetenango, Guatemala). Empezando con una discusión de la etnohistoria, así como las circunstancias históricas de las investigaciones de Seler, sus métodos son examinados de manera...
Springer, 2014. — 292 p. The Bioarchaeology of Space and Place investigates variations in social identity among the ancient Maya by focusing on individuals and small groups identified archaeologically by their inclusion in specific, discrete mortuary contexts or by unusual mortuary treatments. Utilizing archaeological, biological and taphonomic data from these contexts, the...
University Press of Colorado, 2015. — 416 p. Bridging the Gaps: Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico does just that: it bridges the gap between archaeology and history of the Precolumbian, Colonial, and Republican eras of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, a cultural area encompassing several of the longest-enduring literate societies in the world. Fourteen case...
Jagiellonian University Press, 2008. — 268 p. The Terminal Classic (dated ca. 9th-10th centuries AD) was a period of profound changes for the Maya civilisation which developed in the area of southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize as well as western Honduras and Salvador. It is characterised by the collapse and depopulation of the ma jority of cities located in the so-called...
Texas A&M University Press, 2020. — 324 p. Hailed by The Guardian and other publications as "a real-life Indiana Jones", Slovenian archaeologist Ivan Šprajc has been mapping out previously unknown Mayan sites in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula since 1996. Most recently, he was credited with the discovery of the Chactún and Lagunita sites in 2013 and 2014, respectively, helping to...
М.: Наука, 1992. — 168 с. — ISBN: 5-02-010088-9 Данная книга - первое в советской исторической литературе обобщающее исследование по древним культурам малых стран Центральной Америки - Сальвадора, Гондураса, Никарагуа и Коста-Рики - от эпохи первоначального заселения первобытным человеком указанного региона (20-10 тыс. лет до н.э.) до испанского завоевания в XVI в. Работа...
Монография. — М.: Научный мир, 2000. — 248 с. SBN 5-89176-074-6. Работа посвящена художественным изделиям из камня, созданным коренными обитателями Центральной Америки в доколумбову эпоху. Произведения мелкой пластики, выполненные из камней зеленых оттенков, представлявших основную ценность аборигенов, монументальные и портативные изваяния, зернотерки и сидения, навершия...
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