Routledge, 1997. — 172 p. In this concise, yet sweeping look at the origins and development of ancient new world civiliozations, Richard adams provides a superb introductory overview of these unique and fascinating cultures. Incorporating the latest breakthroughs in the study of the cultures of Mesoamerica and the Andes, Adams examines the development of the Olmec, Maya, Aztec,...
Sin datos editoriales. Fotografía: Fernando González y González, y Dr. Manuel AguilarMoreno dibujos: Lluvia Arras, Fonda Portales, Annelys Pérez Y Richard Perry. Una de las funciones primordiales del arte azteca era la de expresar conceptos religiosos y míticos a fin de legitimar el poder del Estado. Este lenguaje artístico se expresó de manera predominante por medio de la forma...
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Inc. (FAMSI), 2008. — 221 p. Aztec architecture reflects the values and civilization of an empire, and studying Aztec architecture is instrumental in understanding the history of the Aztecs, including their migration across Mexico and their re-enactment of religious rituals. Aztec architecture can be best described as...
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Inc. (FAMSI), 2007. — 158 p. A main function of Aztec Art was to express religious and mythical concepts to legitimize the power of the State. This artistic language spoke predominantly through the form of iconographic symbols and metaphors. For example, the image of the eagle symbolized the warrior and the sun at its...
Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 2002. — 330 p. Es el área geográfica dentro de la cual se desarrollaron las altas culturas de México y Centroamérica, fue definida, delimitada y caracterizada por Paul Kirchhoff, en 1943 ante la sociedad mexicana de antropología. Este considero a Mesoamérica como una región cuyos habitantes, tanto los emigrantes muy antiguos como lo...
University of Arizona Press, 2023. — 384 p. Eating is essential for life, but it also embodies social and symbolic dimensions. This volume shows how foods and peoples were mutually transformed in the ancient Andes. Exploring the multiple social, ecological, cultural, and ontological dimensions of food in the Andean past, the contributors of Foodways of the Ancient Andes offer...
Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, 1998. — 95 p. Esta nueva publicación corresponde o uno largo tradición ininterrumpida de ediciones que el Musea Chileno de Arle Precolombino inició con el Banco O'Higgins, y que su sucesor legal, Banco Santiago, ha conlinuado, innovando su conlenido suslanciol y formol. Es destacable esto largo y prolifico colaboración enlre dicho empresa...
University of Alabama Press, 2017. — 272 p. Surviving Spanish Conquest reveals the transformation that occurred in Indian communities during the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from 1492 to 1550. In Surviving Spanish Conquest: Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico , Karen F. Anderson-Córdova draws on archaeological,...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 350 p. Warfare in the pre-Columbian Andes took on many forms, from inter-village raids to campaigns of conquest. Andean societies also created spectacular performances and artwork alluding to war – acts of symbolism that worked as political rhetoric while drawing on ancient beliefs about supernatural beings, warriors, and the dead. In this...
University Press of Colorado, 2017. — 272 p. "Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage" is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological...
University Press of Colorado, 2017. — 272 p. "Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage" is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological...
University of Arizona Press, 2012. — 360 p. Recent realizations that prehispanic cities in Mesoamerica were fundamentally different from western cities of the same period have led to increasing examination of the neighborhood as an intermediate unit at the heart of prehispanic urbanization. This book addresses the subject of neighborhoods in archaeology as analytical units between...
University Press of Colorado, 2021. — 392 p. Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities is the first focused book-length discussion of migration in central Mexico, west Mexico and the Maya region, presenting case studies on population movement in and among Classic, Epiclassic, and Postclassic Mesoamerican societies and polities within the framework of urbanization...
Barakaldo Books, 2020. — 338 p. First published 1954. This engrossing study of southern Mexico, an area fabulous for what it has already yielded to devoted archaeologists, haunting for what it has not yet revealed, centers about the Zapotec as the matrix of the Oaxaca peoples and builders of a glorious ancient culture. First we come to know the peoples of Oaxaca as they are...
Thomson Gale, 2005. - 926 p. ISBN: 0787692522. Many American history books begin with the year 1492 and the discovery of the Caribbean Islands by Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506). For the great civilizations of Mesoamerica and South America, though, 1492 proved to be the beginning of the end of their civilization. The products of thousands of years of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. — 396 p. Considers the history and historiography of trans-Pacific contact before the fifteenth century; Explores a wide range of scholarship from the Global South, rendering it accessible to Anglophone readers; Examines evidence from linguistics, anthropology and archaeology. This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. — 404 p. - Considers the history and historiography of trans-Pacific contact before the fifteenth century - Explores a wide range of scholarship from the Global South, rendering it accessible to Anglophone readers - Examines evidence from linguistics, anthropology and archaeology This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact...
University Press of Colorado, 2016. — 309 p. Political authority contains an inherent contradiction. Rulers must reinforce social inequality and bolster their own unique position at the top of the sociopolitical hierarchy, yet simultaneously emphasize social similarities and the commonalities shared by all. Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica explores the different...
University Press of Florida, 2019. — 400 p. Bringing the often-neglected topic of migration to the forefront of ancient Mesoamerican studies, this volume uses an illuminating multidisciplinary approach to address the role of population movements in Mexico and Central America from AD 500 to 1500, the tumultuous centuries before European contact. Clarifying what has to date been...
Ediciones Sur, 1996. — 448 p. José Bengoa, ha hecho un camino sistemático de investigación en torno de la problemática mapuche, y hoy nos ofrece esta edición corregida de la ya clásica obra sobre la historia del pueblo Mapuche. Tras una minuciosa recopilación de material historiográfico, Bengoa nos propone este trabajo que recoge historias de heroísmo, de victorias y derrotas...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 153 p. This book investigates the emergence of social complexity and state formation in a New World region. Around 500 BC, the Valley of Oaxaca, in present-day Mexico, was the site of one of the earliest Native American states, when a new regional capital was established at Monte Alban. Today one of Mexico's most famous and spectacular...
University Press of Colorado, 2008. — 457 p. After Monte Albán reveals the richness and interregional relevance of Postclassic transformations in the area now known as Oaxaca, which lies between Central Mexico and the Maya area and, as contributors to this volume demonstrate, achieved cultural centrality in pan-Mesoamerican networks. Large nucleated states throughout Oaxaca...
Dumbarton Oaks, 2011. — 422 p. Writing and recording are key cultural activities that allow humans to communicate across time and space. Whereas Old World writing evolved into the alphabetic system that is now employed around the world, the indigenous peoples in the Americas autonomously developed alternative systems that conveyed knowledge in a tangible medium. New World...
University of Texas Press, 2008. — 312 p. The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid records of the past. Five Pre-Columbian and some 150 early colonial painted...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2017. — 98 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 7). Our understanding of ancient Pre-Columbian civilizations has changed significantly as the result of archaeological research in the last fifty years. Major projects during this period included dealing with cultural change in different contexts (Valley of Mexico, Oaxaca), regional research...
University Press of Colorado, 2012. — 592 p. Fanning the Sacred Flame: Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson contains twenty-two original papers in tribute to H. B. "Nick" Nicholson, a pioneer of Mesoamerican research. His intellectual legacy is recognized by Mesoamerican archaeologists, art historians, ethnohistorians, and ethnographers - students, colleagues, and...
Helikon Kiadó, 1989. — 156 o. — (A múlt születése). "Az európai hódítás idején az Újvilág törzsek, nemzetek, nyelvek és kultúrák meglepő sokszínűségével fogadta az első spanyol felfedezőket, akik hatalmas városokban palotákat és magas piramisokra emelt kőtemplomokat találtak. A piactereken számukra ismeretlen élelmiszereket árultak - kukoricát, burgonyát, kakaót, pulykát,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. — 352 p. A descendant of both Spanish settlers and Nahua (Aztec) rulers, Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl (ca. 1578–1650) was an avid collector of indigenous pictorial and alphabetic texts and a prodigious chronicler of the history of pre-conquest and conquest-era Mexico. His magnum opus, here for the first time in English translation, is...
University of Texas Press, 2023. — 184 p. In Unseen Art , Claudia Brittenham unravels one of the most puzzling phenomena in Mesoamerican art history: why many of the objects that we view in museums today were once so difficult to see. She examines the importance that ancient Mesoamerican people assigned to the process of making and enlivening the things we now call art, as well...
2nd Edition — University of Arizona Press, 2016. — 312 p. Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl is one of the most controversial and provocative Mexican chroniclers from the colonial period. A descendant of both the famous Prehispanic poet-king Nezahualcoyotl and Hernán Cortés’s ally Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, he penned chronicles that rewrote Prehispanic and colonial history....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. — 219 p. This study of the ancient religion of Mexico is an original attempt to explain the meaning behind its beliefs and practices and to relate them to human behavior in primitive society. Mr. Burland begins with a historical survey from earliest times to the Spanish conquest, using the evidence of modern archeological discoveries to trace...
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1957. — 207 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places). To archaeologist and layman alike this book gives a concise, stimulating account of all that is known about ancient Peruvian cultures. Attention has long been focused on the Incas of Peru for their spectacular buildings and great Empire, but they cannot be correctly appreciated without a knowledge of...
Revised Edition. — Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1963. — 216 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places, Vol. 1). Attention has long been focussed on the Incas of Peru for their spectacular buildings and great Empire, but they cannot be correctly appreciated without a knowledge of the civilizations that went before. This book presents to readers, for the first time, a conspectus of...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 292 p. This book examines the ways in which urbanization and religion intersected in pre-Columbian central Mexico, with a primary focus on the later Formative period and the transition to the Classic period. The major societal transformations of this interval occurred approximately 2,000 years ago and over a millennium before Mexico’s best known...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 292 p. This book examines the ways in which urbanization and religion intersected in pre-Columbian central Mexico, with a primary focus on the later Formative period and the transition to the Classic period. The major societal transformations of this interval occurred approximately 2,000 years ago and over a millennium before Mexico’s best known...
University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 304 p. Departing from the political economy perspective taken by the vast majority of volumes devoted to Mesoamerican obsidian, Obsidian Reflections is an examination of obsidian's sociocultural dimensions - particularly in regard to Mesoamerican world view, religion, and belief systems. Exploring the materiality of this volcanic glass...
University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 304 p. Departing from the political economy perspective taken by the vast majority of volumes devoted to Mesoamerican obsidian, Obsidian Reflections is an examination of obsidian's sociocultural dimensions - particularly in regard to Mesoamerican world view, religion, and belief systems. Exploring the materiality of this volcanic glass...
University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 304 p. Departing from the political economy perspective taken by the vast majority of volumes devoted to Mesoamerican obsidian, Obsidian Reflections is an examination of obsidian's sociocultural dimensions - particularly in regard to Mesoamerican world view, religion, and belief systems. Exploring the materiality of this volcanic glass...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 576 p. "The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization" summarizes and integrates information on the origins, historical development, and current situations of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. It describes their contributions from the development of Mesoamerican Civilization through 20th century and their...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 576 p. "The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization" summarizes and integrates information on the origins, historical development, and current situations of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. It describes their contributions from the development of Mesoamerican Civilization through 20th century and their...
University Press of Colorado, 2002. — 584 p. For more than a millennium the great Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan (c. 150 B.C.E. - 750 C.E.) has been imagined and reimagined by a host of subsequent cultures, including our own. Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage engages the subject of the unity and diversity of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica by focusing on the classic heritage of this...
2nd Edition — Waveland Press, 2013. — 220 p. The Second Edition of Religions of Mesoamerica comes at a turning point in the study of the Americas and the religious and cultural histories of the New World. To that end, esteemed scholar Davíd Carrasco integrates past and current research, developments, and excavations to vividly synthesize the history of Mesoamerican cultures their...
University of California Press , 2003. — 384 p. One of the richest and most complex civilizations in ancient America evolved around Lake Titicaca in southern Peru and northern Bolivia. This book is the first comprehensive synthesis of four thousand years of prehistory for the entire Titicaca region. It is a fascinating story of the transition from hunting and gathering to early...
Dundurn, 2016. — 216 p. Paul Chiasson reveals the possibility that early Chinese settlers landed in Cape Breton long before Europeans. From the very beginning of the European Age of Discovery, Cape Breton was considered unusual. The history of the area even includes early references to the island having once been the land of the Chinese. In 1497, at least a century before any...
Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1962. — 245 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places). "The subject matter of this book is the story of the pre-Spanish peoples of Mexico, who with their neighbours the Maya were the most advanced of the American Indians. As it will be used here, the term Mexico will mean all of the land in that Republic which lies between the western border of the Maya...
7th Edition. — Thames & Hudson, 2013. — 256 p. Michael D. Coe’s Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region’s ancient civilizations. This companion to his best-selling The Maya has now been revised by Professor Coe and Rex Koontz. The seventh edition incorporates new findings in a number of disciplines. The solution to the...
University of Texas Press, 1994. — 288 p. After long weeks of boring, perhaps spoiled sea rations, one of the first things Spaniards sought in the New World was undoubtedly fresh food. Probably they found the local cuisine strange at first, but soon they were sending American plants and animals around the world, eventually enriching the cuisine of many cultures. Drawing on...
Cambridge University Press, 1984. — 280 p. Religion and Empire is an innovative and provocative study of the two largest states of the Pre-columbian Americas, the Aztec and Inca Empires. By examining the causes of the formation and expansion of these two empires, the authors identify similar patterns and processes underlying their rise and decline. They demonstrate that in both...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1980. — 400 p. Nigel Davies succeeds in a difficult task - unifying the fragmentary, often contradictory, remains of the ancestors of the Aztecs. He provides some personal but tenable hypotheses which all future researchers must consider. The time covered goes from the fall of Tula to the founding of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.
Описание доколумбовой Мексики монахом-франсисканцем Бернардино де Сагуно: обычаи, обряды, флора и фауна. Mexico, Imrenta del Ciudadano de Alejandro Valdez, 1829, 357 стр
University Press of Colorado, 2020. — 384 p. Reshaping the World is a nuanced exploration of the plurality, complexity, and adaptability of Precolumbian and colonial-era Mesoamerican cosmological models and the ways in which anthropologists and historians have used colonial and indigenous texts to understand these models in the past. Since the early twentieth century, it has...
Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Conference Proceedings. — Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1989. — vii + 244 p. ISBN: 0884021750, 9780884021759. Preface. Richard A. Diehl Introduction. Richard A. Dienhl and janet Catherine Berlo Regional Perspectives: Central Mexico A Shadow of Its Former Self: Teotihuacan during the Coyotlatelco Period. Richard A. Diehl Early...
University Press of Colorado, 2015. — 440 p. Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica is an interdisciplinary tour de force that establishes the critical role astronomy played in the religious and civic lives of the ancient peoples of Mesoamerica. Providing extraordinary examples of how Precolumbian peoples merged ideas about the cosmos with those...
University of Arizona Press, 2019. — 328 p. Mesoamerican communities past and present are characterized by their strong inclination toward color and their expert use of the natural environment to create dyes and paints. In pre-Hispanic times, skin was among the preferred surfaces on which to apply coloring materials. Archaeological research and historical and iconographic...
University Press of Colorado, 2019. — 426 p. Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary contributions from leading scholars investigate linguistic exchange and borrowing, scribal practices, settlement patterns,...
University Press of Colorado, 2019. — 426 p. Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary contributions from leading scholars investigate linguistic exchange and borrowing, scribal practices, settlement patterns,...
University Press of Colorado, 2020. — 456 p. In Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands , Latin American, North American, and European researchers explore the meanings and functions of two- and three-dimensional human representations in the Precolumbian communities of the Mexican highlands. Reading these anthropomorphic representations from an ontological...
University Press of Colorado, 2020. — 456 p. In Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands , Latin American, North American, and European researchers explore the meanings and functions of two- and three-dimensional human representations in the Precolumbian communities of the Mexican highlands. Reading these anthropomorphic representations from an ontological...
Afterword by Dr. Esther Pasztory — University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. — 312 p. In the past fifty years, the study of indigenous and pre-Columbian art has evolved from a groundbreaking area of inquiry in the mid-1960s to an established field of research. This period also spans the career of art historian Esther Pasztory. Few scholars have made such a broad and lasting impact as...
Afterword by Dr. Esther Pasztory — University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. — 312 p. In the past fifty years, the study of indigenous and pre-Columbian art has evolved from a groundbreaking area of inquiry in the mid-1960s to an established field of research. This period also spans the career of art historian Esther Pasztory. Few scholars have made such a broad and lasting impact as...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. — 330 p. Fowler's masterful study of the Nahua civilizations is comprehensive, readable, and eminent. While providing a detailed examination of all facets of these Nahuatl-speaking peoples, he tackles the central question of why the Pipil (Guatemala and El Salvador) achieved a state-level of civilization while the Nicarao (Nicaragua) lived in...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. — 330 p. Fowler's masterful study of the Nahua civilizations is comprehensive, readable, and eminent. While providing a detailed examination of all facets of these Nahuatl-speaking peoples, he tackles the central question of why the Pipil (Guatemala and El Salvador) achieved a state-level of civilization while the Nicarao (Nicaragua) lived in...
University Press of Colorado, 2022. — 314 p. The Early Classic period in Mesoamerica has been characterized by the appearance of Teotihuacan-related material culture throughout the region. Teotihuacan, known for its monumental architecture and dense settlement, became an urban center around 100 BC and a regional state over the next few centuries, dominating much of the Basin of...
University Press of Colorado, 2022. — 314 p. The Early Classic period in Mesoamerica has been characterized by the appearance of Teotihuacan-related material culture throughout the region. Teotihuacan, known for its monumental architecture and dense settlement, became an urban center around 100 BC and a regional state over the next few centuries, dominating much of the Basin of...
Second Edition — Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018. — 342 p. South America is a vast, relatively isolated, landmass that includes 12 independent countries and one region (Guyane Française) with diverse ethnic groups speaking hundreds of different languages and dialects, and extraordinary creativity. Indigenous people have occupied its different habitats while transforming...
Second Edition — Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018. — 342 p. South America is a vast, relatively isolated, landmass that includes 12 independent countries and one region (Guyane Française) with diverse ethnic groups speaking hundreds of different languages and dialects, and extraordinary creativity. Indigenous people have occupied its different habitats while transforming...
Lexington Books, 2020. — 188 p. Drawing on research conducted in Cuzco, Peru, The Wari Civilization and Their Descendants: Imperial Transformation in Pre-Inca Cuzco , analyzes the political and social transformations that led to the downfall of the Wari civilization in the Andean Middle Horizon period (AD 500–1000) and resulted in the rise of the Inca state. The contributors to...
University Press of Colorado, 2007. — 346 p. Were most commoners in ancient Mesoamerica poor? In a material sense, yes, probably so. Were they poor in their beliefs and culture? Certainly not, as Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica demonstrates. This volume explores the ritual life of Mesoamerica's common citizens, inside and outside of the domestic sphere, from...
University Press of Colorado, 2021. — 368 p. Night and Darkness in Ancient Mesoamerica is the first volume to explicitly incorporate how nocturnal aspects of the natural world were imbued with deep cultural meanings and expressed by different peoples from various time periods in Mexico and Central America. Material culture, iconography, epigraphy, art history, ethnohistory,...
University of Texas Press, 2014. — 206 p. The Olmecs are renowned for their massive carved stone heads and other sculptures, the first stone monuments produced in Mesoamerica. Seven decades of archaeological research have given us many insights into the lifeways of the Olmecs, who inhabited parts of the modern Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco from around 1150 to 400 BC,...
University of Texas Press, 2010. — 229 p. The ancient Mesoamerican city of Izapa in Chiapas, Mexico, is renowned for its extensive collection of elaborate stone stelae and altars, which were carved during the Late Preclassic period (300 BC-AD 250). Many of these monuments depict kings garbed in the costume and persona of a bird, a well-known avian deity who had great...
University of California Press, 1992. — 347 p. In this study of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica, Ross Hassig offers new insight into three thousand years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 B.C. to the Spanish conquest. He examines the methods, purposes, and values of warfare as practiced by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how warfare affected the rise of the...
University of Texas Press, 2010. — 230 p. Northeast of modern-day Mexico City stand the remnants of one of the world's largest preindustrial cities, Teotihuacan. Monumental in scale, Teotihuacan is organized along a three-mile-long thoroughfare, the Avenue of the Dead, that leads up to the massive Pyramid of the Moon. Lining the avenue are numerous plazas and temples, which...
Армии ацтекской и инкской империй, других коренных народов Америк, и конкистадоров 1450-1608
Foundry Books, 1999. — 176 p.
ISSN: 1-901543-38-2
В книге представлены организация, тактика, одежда и вооружение воинов обеих Америк (1450-1608 гг.) – араваков, карибов… ацтеков, тлашкальтеков (тлашкальцев), сапотеков, миштеков, чинантеков, киче, какчикелей, майя… тотонаков, отоми,...
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. — 74 p. The first people that managed to elevate themselves to civilized life in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica were the Olmecs. But why do they remain relatively unknown, hidden in the long and dark corridors of forgotten history? The truth is that few historians are ready to tackle the task of uncovering the true story of the...
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. — 104 p. The Zapotecs lived and thrived, and became a civilization of interest to the Conquistadors. As one of the largest Mesoamerican civilizations at the time, they helped to shape and form the world the Conquistadors encountered upon their arrival. Rivaling the size and complexity of their Mayan neighbors, the Zapotec were...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. — 474 p. - Includes case studies from across Mesoamerica, including Western Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya Lowlands - Builds on cutting-edge archeological research on Mesoamerica - Explores how we understand intangible concepts of value in relation to materiality and the archaeological record This edited collection addresses concepts of value and its...
Springer, 2002. — 390 p. Study of the origin and development of civilization is of unequaled importance for understanding the cultural processes that create human societies. Is cultural evolution directional and regular across human societies and history, or is it opportunistic and capricious? Do apparent regularities come from the way inves tigators construct and manage...
Springer, 2002. — 368 p. The origins and development of civilization are vital components to the understanding of the cultural processes that create human societies. Comparing and contrasting the evolutionary sequences from different civilizations is one approach to discovering their unique development. One area for comparison is in the Central Andes where several societies...
Springer Science & Business Media, 2008. — 523 p. The third volume in the Andean Archaeology series, this book focuses on the marked cultural differences between the northern and southern regions of the Central Andes, and considers the conditions under which these differences evolved, grew pronounced, and diminished. This book continues the dynamic, current problem-oriented...
Сборник трудов международной научной конференции. — М.: Российский государственный гуманитарный университет, 2019. — 369 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7281-2556-3. Сборник включает в себя доклады, представленные на IX Кнорозовских чтениях «Древние цивилизации Старого и Нового Света», прошедших в РГГУ 2-3 марта 2018 г. Статьи посвящены истории мезоамериканистики, истории древних цивилизаций,...
Brill, 2018. — 480 p. — (The Early Americas: History and Culture 8). Mesoamerican Manuscripts: New Scientific Approaches and Interpretations brings together a wide range of modern approaches to the study of pre-colonial and early colonial Mesoamerican manuscripts. This includes innovative studies of materiality through the application of non-invasive spectroscopy and imaging...
Brill, 2010. — 572 p. — (The Early Americas: History and Culture 1). The Mixtec civilization (of Oaxaca, Mexico) is one of the most interesting to survive from pre-colonial Mesoamerica. Among its characteristic products were highly artistic pictographic codices depicting the history and dynasties of its city-states. This handbook surveys and describes the illustrated Mixtec...
Brill, 2017. — 618 p. — (The Early Americas: History and Culture 5). In Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art , Maarten Jansen and Aurora Pérez present new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico. Combining iconographical analysis with the study of archaeological contexts, historical sources and living cultural traditions, they shed light on...
Routledge, 2004. — 342 p. The Tiwanaku state was the political and cultural center of ancient Andean civilization for almost 700 years. Identity and Power is the result of ten years of research that has revealed significant new data. Janusek explores the origins, development, and collapse of this ancient state through the lenses of social identities - gender, ethnicity,...
University Press of Florida, 2021. — 440 p. In the ninth century AD, settlers from the heartland of the Wari Empire founded Quilcapampa, a short-lived site overlooking the Sihuas River in southern Peru. The contributors to this volume present excavation and survey data from in and around Quilcapampa that challenge long-held models of both Wari statecraft and the mechanisms that...
University Press of Florida, 2021. — 440 p. In the ninth century AD, settlers from the heartland of the Wari Empire founded Quilcapampa, a short-lived site overlooking the Sihuas River in southern Peru. The contributors to this volume present excavation and survey data from in and around Quilcapampa that challenge long-held models of both Wari statecraft and the mechanisms that...
University of Alabama Press, 2017. — 528 p. Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another. In Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas , Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief...
University of Alabama Press, 2017. — 528 p. Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another. In Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas , Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief...
University of New Mexico, 2016. — 172 p. The pre-Hispanic capital of the Acolhua kingdom was the sovereign city-state of Texcoco in the northeastern region of central Mexico. Texcoco along with Tlacopan and México-Tenochtitlan later comprised the Aztec Triple Alliance or Aztec Empire (formed c. 1429-1431). As explained in the introductory Chapter 1, throughout sixteenth- and...
University Press of Colorado, 2018. — 268 p. Focusing on the specific case of Acolhuacan in the eastern Basin of Mexico, Pueblos within Pueblos is the first book to systematically analyze tlaxilacalli history over nearly four centuries, beginning with their rise at the dawn of the Aztec empire through their transformation into the “pueblos” of mid-colonial New Spain. Even...
University Press of Colorado, 2021. — 324 p. Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse North Coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory. Many volumes on...
University Press of Colorado, 2021. — 324 p. Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse North Coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory. Many volumes on...
University of Colorado Press, 1995. — 496 p. One of the most enduring debates in Mesoamerican archaeology centers on the striking resemblance between the two ruins of Tula, Hidalgo, and Chichen Itza, Yucatan. Surveying the convoluted history of these debates from the perspective of the history of religions, Lindsay Jones provides a new vehicle for exploring more general issues...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. — 368 p. Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos: Ancient Peoples of Southern Mexico examines the history of the rich and complex societies that arose and flourished in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Shortly after its founding as a hilltop epicenter of Zapotec culture in about 500 bc, Monte Albán became what is widely considered to be the first city in the...
University of Texas Press, 2001. — 304 p. Gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as "male" and "female." At the height of the Classic period, Maya rulers presented themselves as embodying...
Routledge, 2023. — 136 p. This book explores how past peoples navigated and created power structures and social relationships, using a case study from the Titicaca Basin of Bolivia (800 BC–AD 400). Based on the analysis of human skeletal remains, it combines anthropological social theory, archaeological contexts, and biological indicators of identity, disease, and labor to...
Routledge, 2016. — 572 p. Deemed as an important contribution to the study of certain aspects of South American native civilisation, collated over five years, and includes personal observations as well as literature relating to the customs and beliefs of the native Indians in this vast area. Sigfrid Rafael Karsten (1879 - 1956) was a Finnish social anthropologist and...
Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 2004. — x, 386 p. — ISBN: 0-7858-1834-0. Ever since Columbus set foot on American soil for the first time, convinced that he had reached India and began calling the native populations Indians, the origins of the aboriginal inhabitants have been hotly debated. There are few empires about which such contradictory ideas persist as those of the Inca and...
Dumbarton Oaks, 2001. — 408 p. Gender in Pre-Hispanic America offers rich opportunities for comprehending current trends and considering future directions in research. It is unique in that it puts social theory at the forefront of the discussion. The book has a special intellectual presence and contemporary relevance in its engagement with the social lives and constructs of its...
Archaeopress, 2014. — 138 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 4). Mesoamerica is one of the cradles of early civilizations in the ancient world, featuring a wide diversity of cultures exhibiting a high degree of social inequality and stratification. At the pinnacle of the society was the ruler, the court and the high elite. This social segment was responsible for the...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2010. — 352 p. Presents a history of ancient American civilizations prior to the arrival of Columbus, discussing history, agriculture, religion, architecture, art, and politics. From the Mayan calendar to the Toltec architecture at Chichén Itzá, the bequests of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations have endured long after the societies that...
University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 288 p. Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives presents an in-depth, highly nuanced historical understanding of this major indigenous Mesoamerican city from the conquest through the present. The book argues for the need to revise conclusions of past scholarship on familiar topics, deals with current debates that derive from...
University of New Mexico Press, 2008. — 294 p. Nezahualcoyotl (1402-1472), the "poet-king" of Texcoco, has been described as one of the most important pre-Hispanic figures in Nahua history. Since the conquest, European chroniclers have continually portrayed him as a symbol of Aztec civilization and culture, a wise governor and lawmaker, poet and patron of the arts, and...
University of New Mexico Press, 2008. — 294 p. Nezahualcoyotl (1402-1472), the "poet-king" of Texcoco, has been described as one of the most important pre-Hispanic figures in Nahua history. Since the conquest, European chroniclers have continually portrayed him as a symbol of Aztec civilization and culture, a wise governor and lawmaker, poet and patron of the arts, and...
UCLA - Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2014. — 448 p. This book, the first of a projected three, reports on excavations at Formative-period sites in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico. The transition to the Formative in the relatively high-altitude study region is later than in choice regions for early agriculture elsewhere in Mesoamerica. From 900 BC, however, population growth...
University Press of Colorado, 2009. — 448 p. The Valley of Oaxaca was unified under the rule of Monte Albán until its collapse around AD 800. Using findings from John Paddock's long-term excavations at Lambityeco from 1961 to 1976, Michael Lind and Javier Urcid examine the political and social organization of the ancient community during the Xoo Phase (Late Classic period)....
University Press of Colorado, 2015. — 416 p. Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first comprehensive study of Zapotec religion as it existed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on the eve of the Spanish Conquest. Author Michael Lind brings a new perspective, focusing not on underlying theological principles but on the material and spatial expressions of religious practice. Using...
University of Nebraska Press. 1983. — 290 p. This inaugural volume in the Latin American Studies Series of the University of Nebraska Press presents eight essays that examine, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the precolonial, colonial, and early republican antecedents of contemporary Indian cultures in Yucatan, Chiapas, and Guatemala. Recurrent themes include the ways in...
University of Texas Press, 1997. — 296 p. The simple question "How did the Maya come up with a calendar that had only 260 days?" led Vincent Malmström to discover an unexpected "hearth" of Mesoamerican culture. In this boldly revisionist book, he sets forth his challenging, new view of the origin and diffusion of Mesoamerican calendrical systems - the intellectual achievement...
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 312 p. In Ancient People of the Andes , Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution. No South American culture that lived...
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced...
University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, 1994. — 312 p. — (Anthropological Papers, vol. 89). A volume of essays by Mesoamerican scholars on topics ranging from Zapotec archaeology to Cuicatec irrigation and Mixtec codices to Aztec ethnohistory. Authors use a direct historical approach, the comparative method, or develop models that contribute to...
University of Michigan Press, 2020. — 470 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, v. 61). Of the four major hieroglyphic writing systems of ancient Mesoamerica (Zapotec, Maya, Mixtec, and Aztec), the Zapotec is widely considered to be one of the oldest and least studied. This volume assesses an array of topics, including (1) the origins of Zapotec...
Teacher Guide. Core Knowledge Foundation, 2016. — 116 p. Grade 5/Unit 2 The civilizations of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca that once flourished in Central and South America shared common elements. People practiced farming, developed social structures, raised armies, and worshipped many gods. The three civilizations were as diverse as the terrains in which they lived. The Maya,...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 280 p. The philosophy of Mesoamerica – the indigenous groups of precolonial North-Central America – is rich and varied but relatively little-known. In this ground-breaking book, Alexus McLeod introduces the philosophical traditions of the Maya, Nahua (Aztecs), Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and others, focussing in particular on their treatment of...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 358 p. Before the Spanish Conquest and well into the eighteenth century, Mesoamerican peoples believed that “time” and “space” were contained in earthly and heavenly receptacles that were visualized metaphorically. This circumscribed space contained the abodes of the dead. There, deities and ancestral spirits could be revived and the living...
Springer, 2024. — 542 p. - Represents the most comprehensive overview of Mesoamerican ritual human sacrifice published to date - Discusses the relation between social complexity and inter-elite interaction in ritual sacrifice - Shows how agricultural metaphors, mimesis and materiality are themes of Mesoamerican ceremonialism This edited volume addresses the environmental and...
Newsweek, 1977. — 174 p. At the peak of its culture and perestige, around 500 AD, Teotihuacan was a stunning city. Dominated by temples set atop two awesome pyramids, and dotted with brightly decorated buildings flanking wide boulevards, the first city in the Americas was the arbiter of taste, fashion, and religion for an erea stretching from northern Mexico to modern...
University Press of Colorado, 2023. — 440 p. — ISBN-10 1646424603, ISBN-13 978-1646424603. Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica links Precolumbian animal imagery with scientific data related to animal morphology and behavior, providing in-depth studies of the symbolic importance of animals and birds in Postclassic period Mesoamerica. Representations of animal deities in...
Hueso Húmero, 1987. — 66 p.
El presente volumen esta dedicado a explorar la actualidad de la cultura quechua en el Peru, es decir aquellas facetas de su existencia mas afectadas por las imposiciones de las demas realidaded contemportaneas del pais.
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 396 p. This collection of essays by scholars from the Andes, Europe and the United States was originally published in the French journal Annales as a special double issue entitled The Historical Anthropology of Andean Societies . It combines the perspectives of archaeology, anthropology and history to present a complex view of Andean...
Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, 1989. — 104 p. Portada, Presentación, Índice. Las Funciones del Tejido Andino en Diversos Contextos Sociales y Políticos. Selección, Arte Mayor de los Andes. Análisis Técnico. Glosario, Bibliografía.
University of Arizona Press, 2014. — 288 p. "Archaeology at El Perú-Waka’" is the first book to summarize long-term research at this major Maya site. The results of fieldwork and subsequent analyses conducted by members of the El Perú-Waka’ Regional Archaeological Project are coupled with theoretical approaches treating the topics of ritual, memory, and power as deciphered...
University Press of Colorado, 2001. — 380 p. Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs is the most comprehensive survey and discussion of primary documentary sources and relevant archaeological evidence available about the most enigmatic figure of ancient Mesoamerica. Probably no indigenous New World personage has aroused more interest or more controversy...
Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2008. — 452 s. Kultury Mezoameryki od wielu stuleci fascynują kolekcjonerów, erudytów oraz specjalistów reprezentujących rozmaite dziedziny nauki, rozbudzając także wyobraźnię niezliczonych podróżników i zwykłych amatorów. Niniejsza książka jest pierwszym na polskim rynku wydawniczym kompletnym i syntetycznym opracowaniem...
Scarecrow Press, 2000. — 247 p. Ancient Mesoamerica drew world interest in the 19th century when photographs, drawings, and descriptions of discoveries of ruined cities in exotic locations in Mexico and Central America were published. These accounts from early explorers, archaeologists, and travelers made the cultures and archaeological sites of ancient Mesoamerica including the...
University of New Mexico Press, 2017. — 264 p. Identities of power and place, as expressed in paintings from the periods before and after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica, are the subject of this book of case studies from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya area. These sophisticated, skillfully rendered images occur with architecture, in manuscripts, on large pieces of...
University Press of Colorado, 2007. — 448 p. The Mixtec, or the people of Ñuu Savi ("Nation of the Rain God"), one of the major civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica, made their home in the highlands of Oaxaca, where they resisted both Aztec military expansion and the Spanish conquest. In Encounter with the Plumed Serpent , two leading scholars present and interpret the sacred...
Brill, 2013. — xii, 419 p. — (The Early Americas: History and Culture; Vol. 4). — ISSN: 1875-3264; ISBN: 978-90-04-25235-6. Calendars of Mesoamerican civilisations are subjected to what is categorised as ritual practices of time. This book is a comparative explication of rituals of time of four calendars: the Long Count calendar, the 260-day calendar, the 365-day calendar and...
University of Utah Press, 1997. — 326 p. The Ancient Americas outlines the enormously long and complex cultural history of Mesoamerica, as well as the Andean continuum. It combines an overview of pre-Columbian historical events and situations with a consideration of important research problems and efforts and places their last flowering of indigenous complex civilizations...
Colección de documéntos. — Introducción, transcripción, traducción y notas de Sergio Quezada y Tsubasa Okoshi Harada. —México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2001. — 182 p. — (Fuentes para el estudio de la cultura maya, 15). — [Instituto de investigaciones filológicas. Centro de estudios mayas]. — ISBN: 968-856-887-2. Contenido: Introducción Árbol genealógico de los...
Routledge, 2014. — 352 p. The Ancient Central Andes presents a general overview of the prehistoric peoples and cultures of the Central Andes, the region now encompassing most of Peru and significant parts of Ecuador, Bolivia, northern Chile, and northwestern Argentina. The book contextualizes past and modern scholarship and provides a balanced view of current research. Two opening...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 168 p. This fascinating history explores the cultural roots of our civilization’s obsession with the end of the world. Busting the myth of the ancient Maya prediction that time would end in 2012, Matthew Restall and Amara Solari build on their previous book, 2012 and the End of the World , to use the Maya case to connect such seemingly...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 168 p. This fascinating history explores the cultural roots of our civilization’s obsession with the end of the world. Busting the myth of the ancient Maya prediction that time would end in 2012, Matthew Restall and Amara Solari build on their previous book, 2012 and the End of the World , to use the Maya case to connect such seemingly...
University Press of Colorado, 2009. — 481 p. Neighbors of the better-known Itza in the central Petén lakes region of Guatemala, the Kowoj Maya have been studied for little more than a decade. The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala summarizes the results of recent research into this ethno-political group conducted by Prudence Rice,...
University Press of Colorado, 2007, 392 pages ISBN: 978-0-87081-887-5 Compiled in honor of Anthony F. Aveni, America's leading archaeoastronomer, "Skywatching in the Ancient World" offers state-of-the-art work in cultural astronomy by well-known experts in Mayan glyphic studies, cultural history, ethnohistory, and the history of science and of religions. This collection's wide...
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1991. — xviii + 404 p. — ISBN: 0-8165-1180-2. The precolumbian ballgame, played with rubber balls on a masonry court, spread throughout the Aztec empire and endured for two thousand years. More than a spectator sport, the game became an institution used to resolve conflict within and between groups. This volume provides complete coverage...
Monografía. — México: UNAM, Inst. de Invest. Filológicas, Centro de Estudios Mayas; CIESAS, 1996. — Ed. castellana de Mario Humberto Ruz; trad. de Mario Humberto Ruz y Rosario Vega. — 550 p.; ils. maps. tbs. — ISBN: 968-496-303-3. Entre los clásicos de la investigación mayística, Chontal Indians of Acalan-Tixchel , la obra de France V. Scholes y Ralph L. Roys, ocupa sin lugar a...
University Press of Colorado, 2011. — 336 p. Little is known about how Late Postclassic populations in southeast Mesoamerica organized their political relations. Networks of Power fills gaps in the knowledge of this little-studied area, reconstructing the course of political history in the Naco Valley from the fourteenth through early sixteenth centuries. Describing the...
University of Arizona Press, 1991. — 264 p. "A thorough treatment of the sociopolitical history of the kingdoms of Chalco as seen through the eyes of one of the great post-Conquest Nahua historians... Students of Nahuatl language will be rewarded by the extensive citations (with accompanying translations) of relevant material from original Nahua sources." — Choice "By...
University of Texas Press, 2013. — 227 p. From Christopher Columbus to “first anthropologist” Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and travelers wrote about the “Indian” dances they encountered throughout the New World. This was especially true of Spanish missionaries who intensively studied and documented...
Translated by Selma Wesselhoeft. — Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. — 682 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. Also issued as House DOC. 477, 58th Cong., 3rd sess. For a number of years English-speaking students of aboriginal American history have given much attention to the archeology and especially to the glyphic writing of the semicivilized peoples...
University of Arizona Press, 2015. — 368 p. The Andean idea of death differs markedly from the Western view. In the Central Andes, particularly the highlands, death is not conceptually separated from life, nor is it viewed as a permanent state. People, animals, and plants simply transition from a soft, juicy, dynamic life to drier, more lasting states, like dry corn husks or...
University of Texas Press, 1994. — 330 p. Pampa Grande, the largest and most powerful city of the Mochica (Moche) culture on the north coast of Peru, was built, inhabited, and abandoned during the period A.D. 550-700. It is extremely important archaeologically as one of the few pre-Hispanic cities in South America for which there are enough reliable data to reconstruct a model...
University of Utah Press, 2003. — 382 p. The past two decades have seen an explosion of research on Postclassic Mesoamerican societies. In this ambitious new volume, the editors and contributors seek to present a complete picture of the middle and late Postclassic period (ca. AD 1100-1500) employing a new theoretical framework. Mesoamerican societies after the collapse of the...
New York: 1917. — 238 p. This little book is intended as a general commentary and explanation of the more important phases of the ancient life and arts of the Indians of Mexico and Central America, and especially of their history. The substance of it is drawn from many sources, for the anthropologist must mould together and harmonize the gross results of several sciences....
University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. — 268 p. Describes the cultural history of the Mixtec people of northwestern Oaxaca, Mexico to 1600. Preface A Guide to Footnotes The Principal Features of Mixtec Culture on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest Continuity and Change: The Archaeological Record · Continuity and Change: The Documentary Record · The Mixtec Community in Transition...
Oxford University Press, Inc., 1992. — 391 p. Prologue Before Columbus Pestilence and genocide Sex, race and Holy war Epilogue Appendixes Appendix I: On Pre-Columbian Settlement and Population Appendix II: On Racism and Genocide Notes
University of Texas Press, 2012. — 368 p. From prehistory to the present, the Indigenous peoples of the Andes have used a visual symbol system - that is, art - to express their sense of the sacred and its immanence in the natural world. Many visual motifs that originated prior to the Incas still appear in Andean art today, despite the onslaught of cultural disruption that...
University Press of Colorado, 2018. — 302 p. Constructions of Time and History in the Pre-Columbian Andes explores archaeological approaches to temporalities, social memory, and constructions of history in the pre-Columbian Andes. The authors examine a range of indigenous temporal experiences and ideologies, including astronomical, cyclical, generational, eschatological, and...
Routledge, 2020. — 296 p. The Ancient Andean States combines modern social theory, recent archaeological literature, and the experience of the author to examine politics and power in the great Andean pre-Hispanic societies. The ancient Andean states were the great shapers of Peruvian prehistory. Social complexity, architectural monumentality, and specialized economic...
University of Texas Press, 2022. — 360 p. In 1702, after the brutal suppression of a Zapotec revolt, the bishop of Oaxaca proclaimed an amnesty for idolatry in exchange for collective confessions. To evade conflict, Northern Zapotec communities denounced ritual specialists and surrendered sacred songs and 102 divinatory manuals, which preserve cosmological accounts, exchanges...
University of New Mexico Press, 2018. — 320 p. The meanings of ritualized head treatments among ancient Mesoamerican and Andean peoples is the subject of this book, the first overarching coverage of an important subject. Heads are sources of power that protect, impersonate, emulate sacred forces, distinguish, or acquire identity within the native world. The essays in this book...
University of Texas Press, 2022. — 344 p. Moche murals of northern Peru represent one of the great, yet still largely unknown, artistic traditions of the ancient Americas. Created in an era without written scripts, these murals are key to understandings of Moche history, society, and culture. In this first comprehensive study on the subject, Lisa Trever develops an...
Dumbarton Oaks / Harvard University Press, 2017. — 366 p. The archaeological site of Pañamarca was once a vibrant center of religious performance and artistic practice within the ancient Moche world. During the seventh and eighth centuries CE, architects and mural painters created lofty temples and broad-walled plazas that were brilliantly arrayed with images of mythological...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 304 p. More than thirteen centuries of incredible spellbinding history are detailed in this intriguing study of the rulers and warriors of Mexico. Dozens of these charismatic leaders of nations and armies are brought to life by the deep research and entertaining storytelling of Peter Tsouras. Tsouras introduces the reader to the colossal personalities...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 304 p. More than thirteen centuries of incredible spellbinding history are detailed in this intriguing study of the rulers and warriors of Mexico. Dozens of these charismatic leaders of nations and armies are brought to life by the deep research and entertaining storytelling of Peter Tsouras. Tsouras introduces the reader to the colossal personalities...
University of Arizona Press, 2014. — 272 p. Until now, archaeological and historical studies of Mesoamerican plazas have been scarce compared to studies of the surrounding monumental architecture such as pyramidal temples and palaces. Many scholars have assumed that ancient Mesoamericans invested their labor, wealth, and symbolic value in pyramids and other prominent buildings,...
Reprint edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 664 p. Maize has been described as a primary catalyst to complex sociocultural development in the Americas. State of the art research on maize chronology, molecular biology, and stable carbon isotope research on ancient human diets have provided additional lines of evidence on the changing role of maize through time and space and its spread...
Reprint edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 664 p. Maize has been described as a primary catalyst to complex sociocultural development in the Americas. State of the art research on maize chronology, molecular biology, and stable carbon isotope research on ancient human diets have provided additional lines of evidence on the changing role of maize through time and space and its spread...
Monografía. — México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1993. — 2a ed., 2a reimpr. — 504 p. — (Sección de Obras de Historia.) — ISBN: 968-16-3049-1. El largo proceso de destrucción de las civilizaciones prehispánicas se inició con la llegada a de los primeros europeos, y no ha llegado aún a su término. Una de las víctimas de este proceso fue una pequeña tribu indígena del sureste de...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1984. — 352 p. Oaxaca and the Zapotecs. The Growth of the Zapotec Great Tradition. Cycles of Conquest: Political Relationships in the Valley of Oaxaca During the Post-Classic Stage. Princes, Priests, and Peasants: Patterns of Post-Classic Zapotec Culture and Society. Zapotec Elites and Peasants in New Spain. The Zapotecs in Modem Mexico. Epilogue....
University of Texas Press, 2010. — 240 p. In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now known as codices, and the knowledge itself was encoded into pictographs. Eight codices have survived from the Mixtec peoples of ancient Oaxaca, Mexico; a part of one of them, the Codex...
Scarecrow Press, 2011. — 386 p. — ASIN B0076M4ZNI. Mesoamerica is one of six major areas of the world where humans independently changed their culture from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle into settled communities, cities, and civilization. In addition to China (twice), the Indus Valley, the Fertile Crescent of southwest Asia, Egypt, and Peru, Mesoamerica was home to exciting...
СПб.: МАЭ РАН, 2013. — 256 с. — (Kunstkamera Petropolitana).
В книге рассмотрены общества андского пояса Южной Америки и юго-востока Центральной Америки от появления первых свидетельств надобщинной политической организации 5 тыс. лет назад до конкисты. В отношении хозяйства и технологии эти общества сопоставимы с обществами Передней Азии IX—IV тыс. до н.э. Вместе с тем при...
М.: Вече, 2003. – 208 с., илл. (16 с. ). – («Памятники всемирного наследия»).
Книга знакомит читателей с историей развития культуры, искусства и архитектуры двух великих древних цивилизаций Америки – майя и ацтеков. Богатый фактический материал представлен на основе современных исследований в области изучения мировых цивилизаций. В книге достаточно широко освещены характерные...
М. : Вече, 2004.
В книге известного американского этнолога Виктора фон Хагена представлена история ацтеков, майя, инков. Хаген выделяет и подвергает подробному анализу наиболее важные этапы формирования этих культур, от зарождения и динамического развития до момента их падения. Автор охватил все стороны практической и духовной жизни народов солнечных царств. Легко и увлекательно...
М.: Вече, 2004. — (Загадки и тайны древних цивилизаций).
В книге известного американского этнолога Виктора фон Хагена представлена история ацтеков, майя, инков. Хаген выделяет и подвергает подробному анализу наиболее важные этапы формирования этих культур, от зарождения и динамического развития до момента их падения. Автор охватил все стороны практической и духовной жизни...
Перевод испанского издания "NUESTROS PRIMEROS PADRES" Manuel Galich
Casa de las Americas. La Habana, 1979
Буквально название книги переводится с испанского как "Наши прародители".
Москва: Мысль, 1990. — 407 [410] стр.
ISBN 5-244-00419-0
Перевод с испанского кандидата исторических наук Г. Г. Ершовой и кандидата исторических наук М. М. Гурвица
Вступительная статья доктора...
Москва: Мысль, 1990. — 410 с. Перевод с испанского яз. Книга гватемальского и кубинского политического деятеля и писателя М. Галича посвящена истории аборигенных культур Америки от Аляски до Огненной Земли. В увлекательной форме автор рассказывает о древних индейских цивилизациях, внесших неоценимый вклад в сокровищницу мировой культуры. Автор в своей работе затрагивает самые...
М.: Наука, 1968. — 187 с.: ил.
Ответственный редактор: доктор исторических наук А. Л. Монгайт.
В предлагаемой вниманию читателей книге подробно рассматриваются основные точки зрения на проблему доколумбовых связей и дается анализ культур одной из важнейших областей зоны высоких цивилизаций Нового Света — Мезоамерики. Не отрицая в принципе наличия спорадических контактов...
М.: Вече, 2008. — 448 с.: ил. — (Terra Historica). — ISBN: 978-5-9533-1975-1. Кто такие индейцы и откуда они пришли? Существовали ли в древности связи между Старым и Новым Светом и кто на самом деле открыл Америку? Один из крупнейших учёных американистов В. И. Гуляев на основе археологического материала даёт нам уникальную возможность проследить эволюцию «америндов» –...
М.: Вече, 2008. — 448 с.: ил. — (Terra Historica). — ISBN 978-5-9533-1975-1. Кто такие индейцы и откуда они пришли? Существовали ли в древности связи между Старым и Новым Светом и кто на самом деле открыл Америку? Один из крупнейших учёных американистов В. И. Гуляев на основе археологического материала даёт нам уникальную возможность проследить эволюцию «америндов» –...
М.: Ломоносовъ, 2010. — 191 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-91678-077-2. Индейские народы майя и ацтеков ученые часто называют «греками» и «римлянами» Нового Света. До прихода европейских завоевателей в XVI в. они прошли долгий и сложный путь эволюции. Встреча двух миров, столь не похожих друг на друга, принесла гибель цивилизации американских аборигенов. Их культуры были безжалостно...
М.: Ломоносовъ, 2010. — 191 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-91678-077-2. Индейские народы майя и ацтеков ученые часто называют «греками» и «римлянами» Нового Света. До прихода европейских завоевателей в XVI в. они прошли долгий и сложный путь эволюции. Встреча двух миров, столь не похожих друг на друга, принесла гибель цивилизации американских аборигенов. Их культуры были безжалостно...
Научно-популярное издание. — М.: Знание, 1978. — 112 с. На побережье Эквадора нашли древнюю глиняную посуду IV-III тыс. до н. э., поразительно похожую на японскую керамику Дзёмон. В Мексике и Венесуэле обнаружены римские предметы. В двух шагах от американских берегов, на острове Ньюфаундленд, археологи раскопала поселок викингов. Кто они, эти безвестные мореходы, далекие...
Научно-популярное издание. — М.: Знание, 1978. — 112 с. Заведующий редакцией научно-художественной литературы М. Новиков Редактор К. Томилина. Мл. редактор В. Саморига. Художник А. Григорьев. Худож. редактор М. Гусева. Техн. редактор Т. Луговская. Корректор Р. Колокольчикова. На побережье Эквадора нашли древнюю глиняную посуду IV-III тыс. до н. э., поразительно похожую на...
М.: Алетейа, 2002. – 392 с.: ил. – (Сокровенная история цивилизаций). — ISBN: 5-89321-092-1. Новые книги Г. Г. Ершовой, старшего научного сотрудника Института археологии РАН, директора Центра мезоамериканских исследований им. Ю. В. Кнорозова РГГУ, из цикла «Древняя Америка: полёт во времени и пространстве» посвящены истории древних культур и цивилизаций Нового Света. Эти...
Переводчик: Талах В.Н. — Київ: Либiдь, 2013. — 504 с. В книге впервые публикуются комментированные переводы на русский язык сохранившихся частей трёх созданных в колониальную эпоху испаноязычных памятников мексиканской историографии XVI-XVII вв.- "Истории народа чичимеков" и "Тринадцатого сообщения" Фернандо де Альвы Иштлильшочитля, а также "Сообщения из Тескоко" Хуана Баутисты де...
Перевод с нем. Воронковской М.В. М.: Прогресс, 1979. — 344 с. Книга рассказывает об истории североамериканской археологии, точнее, об археологии сегодняшних Соединённых Штатов. В то же время это и история древних индейских культур Северной Америки. Около 500 лет назад в Центральной и Южной Америке испанцы уничтожили высокоразвитые индейские культуры ацтеков и инков. Однако сегодня...
Перевод с нем. Воронковской М.В. — М.: Прогресс, 1979. — 344 с. Книга рассказывает об истории североамериканской археологии, точнее, об археологии сегодняшних Соединённых Штатов. В то же время это и история древних индейских культур Северной Америки. Около 500 лет назад в Центральной и Южной Америке испанцы уничтожили высокоразвитые индейские культуры ацтеков и инков. Однако...
Санкт-Петербург: Наука, 1991. — 185 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). — ISBN 5-02-027304-Х. Книга представляет собой очерк древней культуры народов Месоамерики к моменту испанского завоевания на материале литературных произведений индейцев и метисов. Автор рассматривает эпос, исторические хроники, лирику и драму, широко использует отрывки из них, и таким образом культурная...
Санкт-Петербург: Наука, 1991. — 185 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). — ISBN: 5-02-027304-Х. Книга представляет собой очерк древней культуры народов Месоамерики к моменту испанского завоевания на материале литературных произведений индейцев и метисов. Автор рассматривает эпос, исторические хроники, лирику и драму, широко использует отрывки из них, и таким образом культурная...
Санкт-Петербург: Наука, 1991. — 187 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). — ISBN: 5-02-027304-Х. Книга представляет собой очерк древней культуры народов Месоамерики к моменту испанского завоевания на материале литературных произведений индейцев и метисов. Автор рассматривает эпос, исторические хроники, лирику и драму, широко использует отрывки из них, и таким образом культурная...
Учебное пособие. — М.: Спутник +, 2017. — 42 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9973-4523-5 В учебном пособии проанализированы основные этапы истории андской цивилизации, характерные черты обществ-империй у народов майя, ацтеков и инков. Подробно рассматривается экономика, социально-политическая организация, культура, религиозные верования и причины гибели цивилизаций Мезоамерики. Введение....
Пер. с рум. — Бухарест: Издательство молодежи, 1967. — 219 с. Чтобы воскресить на страницах книги чудесное явление, каким была цивилизация майя, недостаточно описать, что создала она в области надстройки, а также в обыденной жизни древних и современных жителей в пределах «трапеции». Надо изучить и понять мировоззрение майя, их философию существования, надо изучить и понять...
Экспериментальное учебное пособие: Книга для чтения. — М.: МИРОС, 1997. — 320 с.: ил. ISBN: 5-7084-0129-Х Книга посвящена истории и культуре цивилизаций доколумбовой Америки от проникновения первобытных племен на территорию Нового Света до завоевания Центральной и Южной Америки испанскими конкистадорами. Предпринята попытка собрать, систематизировать и изложить в доступной для...
М.: Мирос, 1997. — 320 с.
Книга посвящена истории и культуре цивилизаций доколумбовой Америки от проникновения первобытных племен на территорию Нового Света до завоевания Центральной и Южной Америки испанскими конкистадорами. Предпринята попытка собрать, систематизировать и изложить в доступной для читателя школьного и студенческого возраста манере многочисленные зарубежные и...
М.: Вече, 2006. — 320 с. — (Тайны истории).
Посвящена истории и культуре доколумбовой Америки от первобытных времен до высадки испанских конкистадоров. Впервые в отечественной литературе сделана попытка собрать, систематизировать и изложить в доступном виде многочисленные документы и публикации по истории Нового Света.
Київ: Либідь, 2005. – 504 с. У посібнику на основі широкого комплексу писемних, археологічних та етнографічних матеріалів розкривається специфіка історичного процесу давньоіндіанських суспільств у контексті світового соціоеволюційного поступу. Цілісно розглядаються питання політичного й соціально-економічного буття та духовного розвитку аборигенних народів Америки. Аналізуються...
К.: Blok.NOT, 2011. — 316 с. - ISBN: 978-966-XXXX-XX-X. В энциклопедию вошли биографии ключевых историков, хронистов, чиновников и миссионеров, действовавших в Южной Америке в XVI-XVII веках и составивших подробные описания индейских обществ, их обычаев, нравов, традиций, военного дела. Некоторые авторы, побывав в Новом Свете сделали важные научные открытия в различных областях...
Киев: Blok.NOT, 2012. — 1129 с. — ISBN: 978-966-XXXX-XX-X. Детектив величиною с континент. Именно так можно охарактеризовать эпоху завоевания Нового света европейцами, и прочесть этот «детектив» помогут документы включенные в данное издание украинскими историками и переводчиками А. Скромницким и В. Талахом. Во второй том первой части «Энциклопедии доколумбовой Америки» вошло...
М.: Знание, 1985. — 208 c.
Книга посвящена колыбели одной из древнейших цивилизаций – индейской культуре Мексике и Центральной Америки доколумбова периода. Автор справедливо отмечает, что аборигены Америки создали высокую цивилизацию, плодами которой пользуется и гордится все человечество. В латинской Америке до испанского завоевания цивилизация достигла наибольшего расцвета в...
Перевод с испанского З.В. Ивановского. Предисловие и научное редактирование В.И. Гуляева. — М.: Знание, 1985. — 208 с., ил. — (Переводная научно-популярная литература). Книга Деметрио Соди посвящена колыбели одной из древнейших цивилизаций - индейской культуре Мексики и Центральной Америки доколумбова периода. Автор справедливо отмечает, что аборигены Америки создали высокую...
Перевод с испанского З.В. Ивановского. Предисловие и научное редактирование В.И. Гуляева. — М.: Знание, 1985. — 208 с., ил. — (Переводная научно-популярная литература). Книга Деметрио Соди посвящена колыбели одной из древнейших цивилизаций - индейской культуре Мексики и Центральной Америки доколумбова периода. Автор справедливо отмечает, что аборигены Америки создали высокую...
Киев: Лыбидь, 2013. — 504 с.
В книге впервые публикуются комментированные переводы на русский язык сохранившихся частей трех созданных в колониальную эпоху испаноязычных памятников мексиканской историографии XVI - XVII вв. - «Истории народа чичимеков...» и «Тринадцатого сообщения...» Фернандо де Альвы Иштлильшочитля, а также «Сообщения из Тескоко» Хуана Баутисты де Помара....
Перевод: Л.А. Карпова. — М. : Центрполиграф, 2008. — 544 с.: ил. — (Загадки и тайны древних цивилизаций). — ISBN: 978-5-9524-3839-2. В книге известного американского этнолога Виктора фон Хагена представлена история ацтеков, майя, инков. Хаген выделяет и подвергает подробному анализу наиболее важные этапы формирования этих культур, от зарождения и динамического развития до...
Доклад был опубликован историком Хименесом де ла Эспада в книге: Juan de Castellanos y
su Historia del Nuevo Reino de Granada, Madrid, 1889, в котором это Краткое изложение
приписывалось перу конкистадора Гонсало Хименеса де Кесады. Также доклад был опубликован доном Антонио Б. Куэрво в его «Colección» (CUERVO, Antonio B. Colección de Documentos inéditos sobre la geografía e...
Куприенко С. А. Источники XVI-XVII веков по истории инков: хроники, документы, письма. С. 120-145 К.: Видавець Купрієнко С.А., 2013. – 418 с. - (С. 120-145). ISBN: 978-617-7085-03-3. Нижеприведённый текст по большей части касается религии, верований и обрядов индейцев Перу. Судя из названия, имеющегося в издании 1906 года, можно предположить, что это только некоторая часть,...
Предлагаю создать раздел под названием "История майя", куда включить следующие файлы: /file/625956/ - Боде К.-Ф. Майя. Потерянная цивилизация /file/694061/ - Реферат - Цивилизация майя, причины краха /file/733609/ - Доклад - Цивилизация майя /file/743985/ - Гуляев В.И. Города-государства майя (Структура и функции города в раннеклассовом обществе) /file/455647/ - Гуляев В.И. Древние Майя. Загадки погибшей цивилизации /file/226879/ - Гуляев В.И. Забытые города майя. Проблемы искусства и архитектуры /file/190924/ - Древние рукописи Майя. Дрезденский кодекс /file/98194/ - Затерянный мир майя /file/10880/ - Ко М. Майя. Исчезнувшая цивилизация: легенды и факты /file/675988/ - Ко Майкл. Майя. Исчезнувшая цивилизация - легенды и факты /file/267064/ - Рус А. Народ майя /file/269209/ - Священные письмена майя: Пополь-Вух, Рабиналь-ачи, Сообщение о делах в Юкатане /file/817946/ - Хория М. Майя
Исторический словарь. 2000.Древний мир — принятое в историографии обозначение периода существования древних государств на Востоке (Древний Восток), в Греции и Риме (Античный мир).Советская историческая энциклопедияДРЕВНИЙ МИР в широком смысле обозначение первого и наиболее длит. периода истории человечества от начала формирования человеч. общества (800-100 тыс. лет до н. э.) до нач. феод. формации (первые века н. э.). Это понятие охватывает 2 периода - первобытное общество и рабовладельч. строй (Древний Восток и Античность). В узком смысле Д. м. - период рабовладельч. формации; изучение этого периода - предмет исследования спец. дисциплины - древней истории.БСЭ Древний мир, принятое в историографии обозначение периода раннеклассовых обществ на Древнем Востоке, в Греции и Риме.
Да, в Википедии это сказано. Но авторы статьи в доказательство сослались на англоязычный источник 1834 г. следующего содержания: Priest, J. (1834). American antiquities, and discoveries in the West: being an exhibition of the evidence that an ancient population of partially civilized nations, differing entirely from those of the present Indians, peopled America many centuries before its discovery by Columbus, and inquiries into their origin, with a copious description of many of their stupendous works, now in ruins; with conjectures concerning what may have become of them; compiled from travels, authentic sources, and the researches of antiquarian societies. Albany: Printed by Hoffman & WhiteИз этого как-то трудно сделать такой вывод.
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/file/625956/ - Боде К.-Ф. Майя. Потерянная цивилизация
/file/694061/ - Реферат - Цивилизация майя, причины краха
/file/733609/ - Доклад - Цивилизация майя
/file/743985/ - Гуляев В.И. Города-государства майя (Структура и функции города в раннеклассовом обществе)
/file/455647/ - Гуляев В.И. Древние Майя. Загадки погибшей цивилизации
/file/226879/ - Гуляев В.И. Забытые города майя. Проблемы искусства и архитектуры
/file/190924/ - Древние рукописи Майя. Дрезденский кодекс
/file/98194/ - Затерянный мир майя
/file/10880/ - Ко М. Майя. Исчезнувшая цивилизация: легенды и факты
/file/675988/ - Ко Майкл. Майя. Исчезнувшая цивилизация - легенды и факты
/file/267064/ - Рус А. Народ майя
/file/269209/ - Священные письмена майя: Пополь-Вух, Рабиналь-ачи, Сообщение о делах в Юкатане
/file/817946/ - Хория М. Майя
/file/84963/ - Ацтеки: империя крови и величия
/file/210923/ - Баглай В.Е. Ацтеки: история, экономика, социально-политический строй (доколониальный период)
/file/605683/ - Баглай В.Е. Ацтеки: история, экономика, социально-политический строй (доколониальный период)
/file/515718/ - Кодекс Мендоса
/file/487252/ - Мексиканская рукопись 385 Кодекс Теллериано-Ременсис с дополнениями из Кодекса Риос
/file/301747/ - Презентация - Ацтеки
/file/113352/ - Реферат - Месоамерика. Ацтеки
/file/473625/ - Сустель Жак. Ацтеки. Воинственные подданные Монтесумы
Цивилизации доколумбовой Америки вряд ли можно отнести к этому историческому периоду при всей их архаичности.
в широком смысле обозначение первого и наиболее длит. периода истории человечества от начала формирования человеч. общества (800-100 тыс. лет до н. э.) до нач. феод. формации (первые века н. э.). Это понятие охватывает 2 периода - первобытное общество и рабовладельч. строй (Древний Восток и Античность). В узком смысле Д. м. - период рабовладельч. формации; изучение этого периода - предмет исследования спец. дисциплины - древней истории.БСЭ
Древний мир, принятое в историографии обозначение периода раннеклассовых обществ на Древнем Востоке, в Греции и Риме.
Но авторы статьи в доказательство сослались на англоязычный источник 1834 г.
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Priest, J. (1834). American antiquities, and discoveries in the West: being an exhibition of the evidence that an ancient population of partially civilized nations, differing entirely from those of the present Indians, peopled America many centuries before its discovery by Columbus, and inquiries into their origin, with a copious description of many of their stupendous works, now in ruins; with conjectures concerning what may have become of them; compiled from travels, authentic sources, and the researches of antiquarian societies. Albany: Printed by Hoffman & WhiteИз этого как-то трудно сделать такой вывод.