University of Texas Press , 1994. — 194 p. Maya architecture is often described as "massive" and "monumental," but experiments at Copan, Honduras, convinced Elliot Abrams that 300 people could have built one of the large palaces there in only 100 days. In this groundbreaking work, Abrams explicates his theory of architectural energetics, which involves translating structures...
Archaeo Press, 2008. — 154 p. — (British Archaeological Reports International Series, Book 1879). The main subject discussed in this study is the way in which the ancient Maya of Calakmul (modern Mexico), who thrived between 900 B.C. to A.D. 1000, managed their landscape in order to survive in the tropical rainforest. Their lithic technology, the hot, humid climate with a...
Primera edición crítica y anotada. — México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1993. — 668 p. — (Fuentes para el estudio de la cultura maya, 10). — [Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas]. — ISBN: 968-36-3097-9. Versión sin facsímile.
Routledge, 2023. — 280 p. The Ruins of Time (first published 1975) examines the conquest of the Maya by the Spanish, the discoveries and adventures of the first travellers among them, the dramatic journeys of Victorian archaeologists and explorers and also contemporary attempts to unravel Maya hieroglyphs.
Routledge, 2023. — 280 p. The Ruins of Time (first published 1975) examines the conquest of the Maya by the Spanish, the discoveries and adventures of the first travellers among them, the dramatic journeys of Victorian archaeologists and explorers and also contemporary attempts to unravel Maya hieroglyphs.
University Press of Colorado, 2010. — 268 p. The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal takes up anew the riddles within a number of Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions first recognized by Floyd Lounsbury. Gerardo Aldana unpacks these mathematical riddles using an approach grounded in a reading of the texts made possible by recent advances in decipherment. Using a history of science methodology,...
University of Arizona Press, 2021. — 464 p. To the modern eye, the architects at Chich’en Itza produced some of the most mysterious structures in ancient Mesoamerica. The purpose and cultural influences behind this architecture seem left to conjecture. The people who created and lived around this stunning site may seem even more mercurial. Near the structure known today as the...
Edición de Mario Humberto Ruz. — México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1986. — 520 p. — (Fuentes para el estudio de la cultura maya, 4). — [Instituto de investigaciones filológicas. Centro de estudios mayas.] — ISBN: 968-58-0640-3. Contenido: Prefacio Estudio preliminar Facsimilar y paleografía Apéndices Bibliografía
University of Texas Press, 2020. — 400 p. For the ancient Maya, food was both sustenance and a tool for building a complex society. This collection, the first to focus exclusively on the social uses of food in Classic Maya culture, deploys a variety of theoretical approaches to examine the meaning of food beyond diet - ritual offerings and restrictions, medicinal preparations,...
University of Texas Press, 2020. — 400 p. For the ancient Maya, food was both sustenance and a tool for building a complex society. This collection, the first to focus exclusively on the social uses of food in Classic Maya culture, deploys a variety of theoretical approaches to examine the meaning of food beyond diet - ritual offerings and restrictions, medicinal preparations,...
AltaMira Press, 2001. — 320 p. The flood of archaeological work in Maya lands has revolutionized our understanding of gender in ancient Maya society. The dozen contributors to this volume use a wide range of methodological strategies - archaeology, bioarchaeology, iconography, ethnohistory, epigraphy, ethnography - to tease out the details of the lives, actions, and identities...
AltaMira Press, 2001. — 320 p. The flood of archaeological work in Maya lands has revolutionized our understanding of gender in ancient Maya society. The dozen contributors to this volume use a wide range of methodological strategies - archaeology, bioarchaeology, iconography, ethnohistory, epigraphy, ethnography - to tease out the details of the lives, actions, and identities...
3rd Revised edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 275 p. Everyday Life in the Classic Maya World introduces readers to a range of people who lived during the Classic period (200–800 CE) of Maya civilization. Traci Ardren here reconstructs the individual experiences of Maya people across all social arenas and experiences, including less-studied populations, such as...
University of Texas Press, 2015. - 222 p.
Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands plumbs the archaeological record for what it can reveal about the creation of personal and communal identities in the Maya world. Using new primary data from her excavations at the sites of Yaxuna, Chunchucmil, and Xuenkal, and new analysis of data from Dzibilchaltun in Yucatan,...
University Press of Colorado, 2008. — 400 p. In "Conquered Conquistadors", Florine Asselbergs reveals that a large pictorial map, the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, long thought to represent a series of battles in central Mexico, was actually painted in the 1530s by Quauhquecholteca warriors to document their invasion of Guatemala alongside the Spanish and to proclaim themselves as...
University of New Mexico Press, 2011. — 350 p. Although anthropologists have been observing and analyzing the religious practices of Mayan people for about a hundred years, this perceptive study suggests that anthropological interpretation of those practices and of Maya cosmology has never escaped the epistemological influence of Christianity. Whereas sacred objects used in...
University Press of Colorado, 2009, 190 pages ISBN: 0870819615 Anthony Aveni is the Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy, Anthropology, and Native American Studies at Colage University. He has researched and written about Maya astronomy for more than four decades. He was a U.S National Professor of the Year and has been awarded the H.B. Nicholson...
University Press of Colorado, 2016. — 244 p. In the first comprehensive treatment of Classic Maya patron deity veneration, Joanne P. Baron demonstrates the central importance of patron deity cults in political relationships between both rulers and their subjects and among different Maya kingdoms. Weaving together evidence from inscriptions, images, and artifacts, Patron Gods...
University Press of Colorado, 2019. — 328 p. In Maya Narrative Arts , authors Karen Bassie-Sweet and Nicholas A. Hopkins present a comprehensive and innovative analysis of the principles of Classic Maya narrative arts and apply those principles to some of the major monuments of the site of Palenque. They demonstrate a recent methodological shift in the examination of art and...
University Press of Colorado, 2021. — 340 p. Numerous archaeological projects have found substantial evidence of the military nature of Maya society, and warfare is a frequent theme of Maya art. Maya Gods of War investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made. Author Karen...
University Press of Colorado, 2021. — 340 p. Numerous archaeological projects have found substantial evidence of the military nature of Maya society, and warfare is a frequent theme of Maya art. Maya Gods of War investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made. Author Karen...
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988. — 379 p. — ISBN: 0-691-03590-3. This volume presents recent work on Maya iconography from practitioners in a variety of fields: archaeology, anthropology, art history, linguistics, astronomy, photography, and medicine. The time period discussed runs from the last centuries B.C. through the great Maya Classic period, with...
Illustrated by Kisa Sasaki. — New York: William Morrow and Company, 1961. — 160 p. There are today over two million Mayan Indians living quietly and peacefully in their ancient homelands in Central America. They live mostly in small villages in southeastern Mexico and Guatemala. In Mexico, they live in the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, and in the territory of...
University of Texas Press, 2005. - 449 p.
As portals to the supernatural realm that creates and animates the universe, caves have always been held sacred by the peoples of Mesoamerica. From ancient times to the present, Mesoamericans have made pilgrimages to caves for ceremonies ranging from rituals of passage to petitions for rain and a plentiful harvest. So important were...
University of Texas Press, 2005. — 448 p. As portals to the supernatural realm that creates and animates the universe, caves have always been held sacred by the peoples of Mesoamerica. From ancient times to the present, Mesoamericans have made pilgrimages to caves for ceremonies ranging from rituals of passage to petitions for rain and a plentiful harvest. So important were...
Equinox Publishing, 2012. — 386 p.
The archaeological sites of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula are among the most visited ancient cities of the Americas. Archaeologists have recently made great advances in our understanding of the social and political milieu of the northern Maya lowlands. However, such advances have been under-represented in both scholarly and popular literature...
University of Texas Press, 2004. — 441 p.
Since the 1930s, archaeologists have uncovered startling evidence of interaction between the Early Classic Maya and the great empire of Teotihuacan in Central Mexico. Yet the exact nature of the relationship between these two ancient Mesoamerican civilizations remains to be fully deciphered. Many scholars have assumed that Teotihuacan...
Routledge, 2022. — 374 p. 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 lowlands of Guatemala, Belize, and southeast Mexico...
Routledge, 2015. — 400 p. The archaeological sites of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula are among the most visited ancient cities of the Americas. Archaeologists have recently made great advances in our understanding of the social and political milieu of the northern Maya lowlands. However, such advances have been under-represented in both scholarly and popular literature until now....
University of Texas Press, 2004. — 441 p. Since the 1930s, archaeologists have uncovered startling evidence of interaction between the Early Classic Maya and the great empire of Teotihuacan in Central Mexico. Yet the exact nature of the relationship between these two ancient Mesoamerican civilizations remains to be fully deciphered. Many scholars have assumed that Teotihuacan...
University of Texas Press, 2004. — 441 p. Since the 1930s, archaeologists have uncovered startling evidence of interaction between the Early Classic Maya and the great empire of Teotihuacan in Central Mexico. Yet the exact nature of the relationship between these two ancient Mesoamerican civilizations remains to be fully deciphered. Many scholars have assumed that Teotihuacan...
Routledge, 2014. — 459 p. — ISBN: 0415744873. With a focus on settlement pattern analyses, architectural studies, and ceramic analyses, this ground breaking book provides a broad view of this important relationship allowing readers to understand ancient perceptions about the natural and built environment, the role of power, the construction of historical narrative, trade and...
University Press of Florida, 2018. — 526 p. Pathways to Complexity synthesizes a wealth of new archaeological data to illuminate the origins of Maya civilization and the rise of Classic Maya culture. In this volume, prominent Maya scholars argue that the development of social, religious, and economic complexity began during the Middle Preclassic period (1000–300 B.C.), hundreds of...
HarperCollins, 2016. — 544 p. In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world’s most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood—both already celebrated for their adventures in Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece, and...
Colección de documentos. — Edición facsimilar, transcipción, traducción y notas de Robert M. Carmack y James L. Mondloch. — México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1989. — 224 p. — (Fuentes para el estudio de la cultura maya, 8). — [Instituto de investigaciones filológicas. Centro de estudios mayas]. — ISBN: 968-36-0467-6. Contenido: Introduccion El título de Yax...
University of Texas Press, 2020. — 248 p. How we dress our bodies - through clothing, footwear, headgear, jewelry, haircuts, and more - is key to the expression of status and identity. This idea was as true for ancient Maya civilization as it is today, yet few studies have centered on what ancient Maya peoples wore and why. In The Adorned Body , Nicholas Carter, Stephen...
University of Texas Press, 2020. — 248 p. How we dress our bodies - through clothing, footwear, headgear, jewelry, haircuts, and more - is key to the expression of status and identity. This idea was as true for ancient Maya civilization as it is today, yet few studies have centered on what ancient Maya peoples wore and why. In The Adorned Body , Nicholas Carter, Stephen...
University of Texas Press, 2020. — 248 p. How we dress our bodies - through clothing, footwear, headgear, jewelry, haircuts, and more - is key to the expression of status and identity. This idea was as true for ancient Maya civilization as it is today, yet few studies have centered on what ancient Maya peoples wore and why. In The Adorned Body , Nicholas Carter, Stephen...
University Press of Colorado, 2009. — 447 p. Maya Worldviews at Conquest examines Maya culture and social life just prior to contact and the effect the subsequent Spanish conquest, as well as contact with other Mesoamerican cultures, had on the Maya worldview. Focusing on the Postclassic and Colonial periods, Maya Worldviews at Conquest provides a regional investigation of...
Penguin, 2020. — 512 p. The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen.
Routledge, 2003. — 297 p. This book presents the current state of Maya archaeology by focusing on the history of the field for the last 100 years, present day research, and forward looking prescription for the direction of the field.
University of Texas Press, 1985. — 370 p. This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.
University of Texas Press, 2016. - 340 p. Among the surviving documents from the colonial period in Mexico are rare Maya-authored manuscript compilations of Christian texts, translated and adapted into the Maya language and worldview, which were used to evangelize the local population. The Morely Manuscript is well known to scholars, and now The Teabo Manuscript introduces an...
University Press of Colorado, 2022. — 436 p. This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán , one of the most important documents composed by the K’iche’ Maya in the highlands of Guatemala, second only to the Popol Vuh . The original document was completed in 1554, only a few decades after the Spanish Conquest of the K’iche’ people...
University of Texas Press, 2003. - 352 p.
This volume brings together scholars in archaeology, anthropology, art history, and epigraphy.They will investigate residential architecture at a number of different Maya sites, but they all will analyze architectural form and associated artifacts, as well as iconographic and epigraphic information, with the goal of reconstructing use...
University of Texas Press, 2003. — 352 p. This volume brings together scholars in archaeology, anthropology, art history, and epigraphy.They will investigate residential architecture at a number of different Maya sites, but they all will analyze architectural form and associated artifacts, as well as iconographic and epigraphic information, with the goal of reconstructing use...
University of Texas Press, 1984. — 176 p. Catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Science Museum of Minnesota in cooperation with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Rowohlt, 1997 - 447 p. ISBN10: 3499603462 (German) Michael D. Coe ist Professor für Ethnologie an der Yale-Universität und Experte auf dem Gebiet der prakolumbischen Archäologie. Die vorliegende Veröffentlichung liest sich wie eine Detektivgeschichte und ist zugleich ein sachkundiger Bericht über eines der aufregendsten Abenteuer unserer Zeit: die Entschlüsselung der Maya-Schrift.
Vendome Press, 2012. — 237 p. The Maya are of enormous and abiding fascination to anybody interested in archaeology, ancient history, astronomy, or the visual arts. From the 3rd century BC to the 14th century AD, while Europe was deep in the Dark and Middle Ages, the Maya were producing astonishing sculpture, stelae, and wall murals, and building magnificent temples, palaces,...
Penguin Books, 1980. — 308 p. Ancient Mesoamerica, defined as the civilized portions of pre-Conquest Mexico and Central America, is a subject so large and complex that it could not be handled properly in a text of this length. Accordingly, it was decided to divide it between two volumes, of which the first, covering only the non-Maya peoples of Mexico, has already appeared. The...
10th edition. — Thames and Hudson, 2022. — 320 p. The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya on the market today. This classic book has been updated by distilling the latest scholarship for the general reader and student. This tenth edition incorporates the most recent archaeological and epigraphic findings, which continue to...
Ninth Edition. — Thames & Hudson, 2015. — 320 p. — (Ancient peoples and places). — ISBN: 978-0-500-29188-7. The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the New World’s greatest ancient civilization. Coe and Houston update this classic by distilling the latest scholarship for the general reader and student. This new edition incorporates the most...
Springer, 2014. — 159 p. Archaeological evidence - i.e. presence of exogenous, foreign material objects (pottery, obsidian and so on) - is used to make inferences on ancient trade, while population movement can only be assessed when the biological component of an ancient community is analyzed (i.e. the human skeletal remains). But the exchange of goods or the presence of foreign...
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1882. — 302 p. I am fully aware that this paper bears the marks of haste and gives evidence of the fact that a number of the more important points are not worked out as thoroughly and completely as they might have been had more time been devoted to them. But the growing interest in the public mind in reference to all that relates to the...
Paris: Arthur Bertrand, 1864. — 644 p. L'essai sur les Sources de l'histoire primitive du Mexique, etc., qui sert d'introduction à ce volume, nous a été inspiré par le désir d'éclairer le monde scientifiqae sur les renseignements precieux qu on peut découvrir, pour la connaissance de l histoire primitive, dans les monuments americains.
Collection of papers. — University Press of Colorado, 2004. — 680 p. The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands revisits one of the great problems in Mayan archaeology—the apparent collapse of Classic Maya civilization from roughly A.D. 830 to. 950. During this period the Maya abandoned their power centers in the southern lowlands and rather abruptly ceased the distinctive...
Springer, 2024. — 338 p. - Includes the latest discoveries in studies of the Maya - Lavishly illustrated with color images of the famous temples, pyramids and monuments of the Maya - Reveals important astronomical data encoded into Maya art and architecture The exciting discoveries and newest revelations in the field of archeoastronomy present fascinating examples of the...
Springer, 2024. — 338 p. - Includes the latest discoveries in studies of the Maya - Lavishly illustrated with color images of the famous temples, pyramids and monuments of the Maya - Reveals important astronomical data encoded into Maya art and architecture The exciting discoveries and newest revelations in the field of archeoastronomy present fascinating examples of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 182 p. Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics highlights the dramatic changes in the relationship of ancient Maya peoples to the landscape and to each other in the Preclassical period (ca. 2000 BC-250 AD). Offering a comprehensive history of Preclassic Maya society, James Doyle focuses on recent discoveries of early writing,...
University of Texas Press, 2023. — 312 p. A thousand years ago, the Comitán Valley, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, was the western edge of the Maya world. Far from the famous power centers of the Classic period, the valley has been neglected even by specialists. Here, Caitlin C. Earley offers the first comprehensive study of sculpture excavated from the area, showcasing the...
University Press of Florida, 2017. — 308 p. Drawing on archaeological findings from the Maya lowlands, War Owl Falling shows how innovation and creativity led to social change in ancient societies. Markus Eberl discusses the ways eighth-century Maya (and Maya commoners in particular) reinvented objects and signs that were associated with nobility, including scepters, ceramic...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 212 p. This research explores the development of the Maya writing system in Middle–Late Formative and Early Classic period (700 BC–AD 450) Mesoamerica. It seeks to correlate script development with interregional interaction and diachronic changes in material culture, and proposes a new methodological template for examining script development via material...
University of Alabama Press, 2013. — 160 p. By contextualizing classes and their kinship behavior within the overall political economy, "Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship" provides an example of how archaeology can help to explain the formation of disparate classes and kinship patterns within an ancient state-level society. Bradley E. Ensor provides a new theoretical...
University Press of Florida, 2024. — 420 p. — ISBN-10 0813069939, ISBN-13 978-0813069937. This volume presents the most current research on the ancient Maya city El Perú-Waka’, or “Kingdom of the Centipede.” Located in the Laguna del Tigre National Park of Guatemala, this city has been a major focus of recent archaeological inquiry, which has uncovered a long occupation at the...
Zaragoza, España: Universidad de Zaragoza, FFYL, 2019. — 66 p. Эстебан Синтора Т. Путь в Шибальбу. Сеноты и граница двух миров в религии майя (на исп. яз., с илл.) Сенот — естественный провал, образованный при обрушении свода известняковой пещеры, в которой протекают подземные воды. Находятся на п-ове Юкатан в Мексике и близлежащих о-вах Карибского бассейна. Использовались...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. – 260 p. The coffee table size in text and areial and ground pictures of Maya ruins of Mexico in Palenque, Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil, Xlapak, Labna, Chichen Itza, Coba, Tulum is a wonderful arm-chair tour. With authority professor text, over two hundred pictures cover great sites of interest. Prof Turner II and others have studied the remains of Maya...
University of Texas Press, 2009. — 281 p. — (The Linda Schele series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies). — ISBN: 978-0-292-71890-6. Like their regal counterparts in societies around the globe, ancient Maya rulers departed this world with elaborate burial ceremonies and lavish grave goods, which often included ceramics, red pigments, earflares, stingray spines, jades, pearls,...
University of Texas Press, 2009. — 280 p. Like their regal counterparts in societies around the globe, ancient Maya rulers departed this world with elaborate burial ceremonies and lavish grave goods, which often included ceramics, red pigments, earflares, stingray spines, jades, pearls, obsidian blades, and mosaics. Archaeological investigation of these burials, as well as the...
University Press of Florida, 2013. — 306 p. The study of politics, a dominating force throughout history, can provide great insight into the lives of ancient people. Because of the richness and complexity of Maya society, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent decades attempting to reconstruct its political systems. In Ancient Maya Political Dynamics , Antonia Foias...
University Press of Florida, 2012. — 552 p. Scholars have long debated the nature of Maya political organization during the Classic period (CE 250-950). Complex questions regarding political centralization, economic change, and the role of politics and economics in the rise and collapse of the civilization have been examined and reexamined from a variety of perspectives....
Infobase Publishing, 2002. — 417 p.
This text offers an accessible presentation of the latest archaeological and historical research on all aspects of Maya society, from its earliest beginnings to the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. It introduces the evolution of Maya civilization and the geography of the Pre-Columbian Maya, then describes society and government, warfare,...
University Press of Florida, 2024. — 604 p. — (Maya Studies). New understandings of how Maya people expressed timekeeping in daily life This book discusses the range of ways the ancient Maya people made time tangible through their architecture, arts, writing, beliefs, and practices. These chapters show how the Maya incorporated cyclicality and expanded dimensionality into the...
William Morrow Paperbacks, 1993. — 288 p. A Masterful blend of archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, and lively personal reportage, Maya Comos tells a constellation of stories, from the historical to the mythological, and envokes the awesome power of one of the richest civilizations ever to grace the earth.
Third Revised Edition. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization". — Viking Penguin Inc., 1985. — 235 p. — ISBN: 0-670-80387-1. The remarkable artistic achievements of the most advanced pre-Columbian civilization have now been brought together for an extraordinary exhibition, "Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization." The most...
University Press of Colorado, 2019. — 448 p. Presenting the results of six years of archaeological survey and excavation in and around the Maya kingdom of El Zotz, An Inconstant Landscape paints a complex picture of a dynamic landscape over the course of almost 2,000 years of occupation. El Zotz was a dynastic seat of the Classic period in Guatemala. Located between the renowned...
Element Books, 1995. - 337 pages. ISBN: 1852306920
The present world will end on December 22, 2012. So prophesied the Maya fifteen hundred years ago. These mysterious people and the inscriptions they left behind on their ruined temples have baffled scholars for centuries. Now, using their knowledge of sunspot cycles, the authors have decoded these ancient prophecies to provide...
Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, 2018. — 376 p. Les pratiques funéraires sont, dans l’aire maya, étroitement associées aux ensembles résidentiels. La proximité entre les vivants et les morts y est donc maximale, l’espace quotidien étant tout à la fois un lieu d’habitat et un espace funéraire. Cela soulève un certain nombre de questions quant à la relation entre ces...
Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, 2018. — 294 p. Les pratiques funéraires sont, dans l’aire maya, étroitement associées aux ensembles résidentiels. La proximité entre les vivants et les morts y est donc maximale, l’espace quotidien étant tout à la fois un lieu d’habitat et un espace funéraire. Cela soulève un certain nombre de questions quant à la relation entre ces...
Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, 2018. — 697 p. Les pratiques funéraires sont, dans l’aire maya, étroitement associées aux ensembles résidentiels. La proximité entre les vivants et les morts y est donc maximale, l’espace quotidien étant tout à la fois un lieu d’habitat et un espace funéraire. Cela soulève un certain nombre de questions quant à la relation entre ces...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 250 p. — (BAR International Series 2796). This volume summarizes many aspects of more than twenty years of field research at the ancient Maya city of Blue Creek in northwestern Belize. Blue Creek was a medium-sized Maya kingdom whose wealth was built upon access to large-scale and high-quality agricultural lands and its location at the headwaters of the...
University of Alabama Press, 2007. — 48 p. Focuses on the maritime trade network sites on Ambergris Caye, Belize, where excavations have revealed remnants of very small villages, or camps, along the Caribbean coastline. Thomas H. Guderjan is the president of Maya Research Program, a non-profit research organization. He received his Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University and has...
University of Alabama Pressq 2007. — 182 p. For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including monumental ceremonial structures,...
University of Arizona Press, 2023. — 444 p. Construction of Maya Spaces sheds new light on how Maya society may have shaped - and been shaped by - the constructed environment. Moving beyond the towering pyramids and temples often associated with Maya spaces, this volume focuses on how those in power used features such as walls, roads, rails, and symbolic boundaries to control...
University of California Press, 2010. — 472 p. This pathbreaking synthesis of history, anthropology, and linguistics gives an unprecedented view of the first two hundred years of the Spanish colonization of the Yucatec Maya. Drawing on an extraordinary range and depth of sources, William F. Hanks documents for the first time the crucial role played by language in cultural...
London: Thames & Hudson, 1999. — 209 p. The ancient Maya capital of Tikal is located in the heartland of the Guatemalan rain forest. Occupied from about 800 b.c. to a.d. 800, it had at its peak a population of more than 100,000. Because of its strategic location, Tikal served as a center of trade and as an architectural style-setter for the central Peten region of the Maya...
Monograph. — Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2001. — vi + 120 p. — (BAR International Series 994). — ISBN: 1841711950, 9781841711959. Through a combination of GIS modelling and evidence from hieroglyphic inscriptions, Anaya forms a cartographic reconstruction of the political organisation of the Upper Usumacinta region of the Maya Lowlands.
University Press of Florida, 2015. - 368 p.
For more than a century researchers have studied Maya ruins, and sites like Tikal, Palenque, Copán, and Chichén Itzá have shaped our understanding of the Maya. Yet cities of the eastern lowlands of Belize, an area that was home to a rich urban tradition that persisted and evolved for almost 2,000 years, are treated as peripheral to...
University of Texas Press, 1993. — 180 p. — ISBN-10 0292738552, ISBN-13 978-0292738553. Since their discovery by early explorers, Maya hieroglyphs have prompted much speculation. What did this complex writing system record? How was the information organized, and what themes did it emphasize? What did the script reveal about the society that produced it? After over a century of...
University of Texas Press, 2011. — 334 p. — (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture Series) — ISBN10: 0292713193; ISBN13: 978-0292713192. All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 256 p. In this thought-provoking book, preeminent scholar Stephen Houston turns his attention to the crucial role of young males in Classic Maya society, drawing on evidence from art, writing, and material culture. The Gifted Passage establishes that adolescent men in Maya art were the subjects and makers of hieroglyphics, painted ceramics, and...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 256 p. In this thought-provoking book, preeminent scholar Stephen Houston turns his attention to the crucial role of young males in Classic Maya society, drawing on evidence from art, writing, and material culture. The Gifted Passage establishes that adolescent men in Maya art were the subjects and makers of hieroglyphics, painted ceramics, and...
Routledge, 2014. — 288 p. The ancient Maya shaped their world with stone tools. Lithic artifacts helped create the cityscape and were central to warfare and hunting, craft activities, cooking, and ritual performance. 'The Technology of Maya Civilization' examines Maya lithic artefacts made of chert, obsidian, silicified limestone, and jade to explore the relationship between...
University Press of Colorado, 2012. — 448 p. Despite recent developments in epigraphy, ethnopoetics, and the literary investigation of colonial and modern materials, few studies have compared glyphic texts and historic Maya literatures. Parallel Worlds examines Maya writing and literary traditions from the Classic period until today, revealing remarkable continuities across time....
University Press of Colorado, 2017. — 396 p. Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico - a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil is a rare example of a Maya city in...
AltaMira Press, 2009. — 246 p. Dwelling, Identity, and the Maya offers a new perspective on the ancient Maya that emphasizes the importance of dwelling as a social practice. Contrary to contemporary notions of the self as individual and independent, the identities of the ancient Maya grew from their everyday relations and interactions with other people, the houses and temples...
Routledge, 2020. — 888 p. — (Routledge Worlds). The Maya World brings together over 60 authors, representing the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and ethnography, who explore cutting-edge research on every major facet of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world. The Maya world, which covers Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Mexico,...
Routledge, 2020. — 888 p. — (Routledge Worlds). The Maya World brings together over 60 authors, representing the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and ethnography, who explore cutting-edge research on every major facet of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world. The Maya world, which covers Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Mexico,...
University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 448 p. In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context , contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic "collapses", including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750), were caused not solely by climate change-related droughts but by a combination of...
University Press of Florida, 2016. — 384 p. Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and destruction of monuments and even violent death. This is the first comprehensive volume to focus on the varied responses to the failure of Classic period dynasties in the southern lowlands....
University Press of Florida, 2016. — 384 p. Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and destruction of monuments and even violent death. This is the first comprehensive volume to focus on the varied responses to the failure of Classic period dynasties in the southern lowlands....
University of Utah Press, 2014. — 424 p. Aguateca is a Classic Mayan site located in the Petexbatun region of Guatemala. In this volume, Takeshi Inomata, Daniela Triadan, and their team examine the life of the Mayan royal family, nobles, and their retainers through the analysis of numerous complete and reconstructible artifacts left in this site’s elite residential area....
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2011. — 217 p. Las investigaciones sobre la organización política de los mayas muestran una diversidad de enfoques y perspectivas. Con frecuencia, las interpretaciones y resultados derivados de estas indagaciones han llevado a asumir posiciones antagónicas o francamente contradictorias. El tema ha originado polémicas y debates en los...
Stanford University Press, 1998. — 596 p. On March 13, 1697, Spanish troops from Yucatán attacked and occupied Nojpeten, the capital of the Maya people known as Itzas, the inhabitants of the last unconquered native New World kingdom. This political and ritual center - located on a small island in a lake in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala - was densely covered with...
University Press of Florida, 2018. — 524 p. Water, Cacao, and the Early Maya of Chocolá explores the often-overlooked Southern Maya Region of Guatemala, closely examining the near-legendary ancient city of Chocolá. Jonathan Kaplan and Federico Paredes Umaña marshal extensive fieldwork to demonstrate why Chocolá must now be added to the ranks of major Maya polities and theorize...
2nd Rev. Edition — University of Arizona Press, 2015. — 336 p. Trading was the favorite occupation of the Maya, according to early Spanish observers such as Fray Diego de Landa (1566). Yet scholars of the Maya have long dismissed trade - specifically, market exchange - as unimportant. They argue that the Maya subsisted primarily on agriculture, with long-distance trade playing...
3rd Edition — University of Alabama Press, 2018. — 272 p. In the sixteenth century, Q'eqchi' Maya leader Aj Poop B'atz' changed the course of Q'eqchi' history by welcoming Spanish invaders to his community in peace to protect his people from almost certain violence. Today, he is revered as a powerful symbol of Q'eqchi' identity. Aj Poop B'atz' is only one of many indigenous...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. — 360 p. By 1,800 years ago, speakers of proto-Ch’olan, the ancestor of three present-day Maya languages, had developed a calendar of eighteen twenty-day months plus a set of five days for a total of 365 days. This original Maya calendar, used extensively during the Classic period (200–900 CE), recorded in hieroglyphic inscriptions the dates of...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 150 с. Ланда Диего де. Сообщение о делах в Юкатане (факсимиле, на староисп. яз.) "Сообщение о делах в Юкатане" (исп. Relación de las cosas de Yucatán) — книга, написанная около 1566 года епископом в Новой Испании Диего де Ланда. Записки о культуре народа майя во время испанского завоевания с целью помочь конкистадорам более эффективно достичь своих...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 628 с. Ланда Диего де. Сообщение о делах в Юкатане: факсимиле и оцифровка (на англ. и исп. яз.) Introduction. Facsimile and Transcript. Appendix A: The text of the 1577 Questionnaire sent out by Felipe II. Appendix B: Tozzer’s Translation. Appendix C: Tozzer’s Footnotes. Appendix D: Glossary of proper names, place names and assorted native words....
Cambridge: Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology, 1941. — 394 p. — (Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Vol. XVIII). Landa probably wrote his original Relacion while in Spain somewhere about 1566. He presumably took the manuscript with him on his return to Yucatan in 1573, and, after his death six years later,...
University Press of Colorado, 2022. — 268 p. Sustainability and Water Management in the Maya World and Beyond investigates climate change and sustainability through time, exploring how political control of water sources, maintenance of sustainable systems, ideological relationships with water, and fluctuations in water availability have affected and been affected by social...
University of Arizona Press, 2010. — 464 p. Most treatments of large Classic Maya sites such as Caracol and Tikal regard Maya political organization as highly centralized. Because investigations have focused on civic buildings and elite palaces, however, a critical part of the picture of Classic Maya political organization has been missing. The contributors to this volume chart...
Cuxtitali Jobel Planeta tierra 27 Diciembre 2016. — 52 p. Dos textos de Gudrun Lenkersdorf sobre la forma de organización política de las comunidades mayas del actual estado de Chiapas y la zona guatemalteca durante la época de la conquista española. Editado para revivir la memoria larga de resistencia de los concejos durante la creación del CIG (Concejo Índigena de Gobierno) en...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. - 370 p.
The primary theoretical question addressed in this book focuses on the lingering concern of how the ancient Maya in the northern Petén Basin were able to sustain large populations in the midst of a tropical forest environment during the Late Classic period. This book asks how agricultural intensification was achieved and how essential...
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2013. — 194 p. As American literary and cultural scholars reconsider the foundations of U.S. relations with other nations, "Ruins, Revolution, and Manifest Destiny: John Lloyd Stephens Creates the Maya" locates in Stephens’s immensely popular nineteenth-century travel narratives (1841, 1843) the sources of American perceptions of...
Выходные данные и автор неизвестны. — 498 с. Литература майя (на исп. яз.) Índice: Prólogo. Los "Popol Vuh" o "Popolhuun" míticos, históricos y proféticos. Los "Popol Vuh" o "Popolhuun" rituales. Los "Popol Vuh" o "Popolhuun" histórico-legales. Cronología.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. — 299 p. — ISBN: 0-292-70571-9. Much of what we currently know about the ancient Maya concerns the activities of the elites who ruled the societies and left records of their deeds carved on the monumental buildings and sculptures that remain as silent testimony to their power and status. But what do we know of the common folk who labored...
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2013. — 256 p. Data spanning the Archaic to Early Postclassic are presented, with particular analytical focus given to the end of the Early Classic through the Late and Terminal Classic and the geopolitical tumult that defined this period. Cast in the framework of political ecology, together these studies not only shed light on...
University of Texas Press, 2003. - 277 p.
The ancient Maya city of Quirigua occupied a crossroads between Copan in the southeastern Maya highlands and the major centers of the Peten heartland. Though always a relatively small city, Quirigua stands out because of its public monuments, which were some of the greatest achievements of Classic Maya civilization. Impressive not only...
University of Texas Press, 2009. - 295 p. The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance in Maya royal courts through...
University of Texas Press, 2009. — 295 p. The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance in Maya royal courts through...
University of Texas Press, 2003. — 265 p. The ancient Maya city of Quirigua occupied a crossroads between Copan in the southeastern Maya highlands and the major centers of the Peten heartland. Though always a relatively small city, Quirigua stands out because of its public monuments, which were some of the greatest achievements of Classic Maya civilization. Impressive not only...
University of Texas Press, 2019. — 288 p. The white-tailed deer had a prominent status in Maya civilization: it was the most important wild-animal food source at many inland Maya sites and also functioned as a major ceremonial symbol. Offering an in-depth semantic analysis of this imagery, The Beast Between considers iconography, hieroglyphic texts, mythological discourses, and...
University of Texas Press, 2019. — 288 p. The white-tailed deer had a prominent status in Maya civilization: it was the most important wild-animal food source at many inland Maya sites and also functioned as a major ceremonial symbol. Offering an in-depth semantic analysis of this imagery, The Beast Between considers iconography, hieroglyphic texts, mythological discourses, and...
University of Texas Press, 2019. — 288 p. The white-tailed deer had a prominent status in Maya civilization: it was the most important wild-animal food source at many inland Maya sites and also functioned as a major ceremonial symbol. Offering an in-depth semantic analysis of this imagery, The Beast Between considers iconography, hieroglyphic texts, mythological discourses, and...
Foreword by John E. Staller — University of New Mexico Press, 2019. — 280 p. From Classical antiquity to the present, tobacco has existed as a potent ritual substance. Tobacco use among the Maya straddles a recreational/ritual/medicinal nexus that can be difficult for Western audiences to understand. To best characterize the pervasive substance, this volume assembles scholars from...
University of Texas Press, 2006. — 253 p. — ISBN: 0-292-70999-4. Lisa J. Lucero is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In the southern Maya lowlands, rainfall provided the primary and, in some areas, the only source of water for people and crops. Classic Maya kings sponsored elaborate public rituals that affirmed their close ties...
Oxford University Press, 2025. — 264 p. We now live in the Anthropocene, the first epoch of our own making. We have altered the Earth's atmosphere, landscapes, and bodies of water. The burning of fossil fuels has warmed the planet enough to change weather patterns, melt glaciers, and raise sea levels, a situation made worse by rampant deforestation and resource depletion. Many...
University of Michigan Press, 1987. — 226 p. — (Technical Report 21). Calakmul is a large Maya site in the Yucatán Peninsula of southern Mexico, just north of Tikal and the Guatemala border. In the 1980s, Joyce Marcus sketched and photographed the inscriptions on the monuments of Calakmul, in an effort to understand the nature of Maya territorial organization through the...
University Press of Colorado, 2015. — 272 p. Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands investigates Maya political and social structure in the southern lowlands, assessing, comparing, and interpreting the wide variation in Classic period Maya polity and city composition, development, and integration. Traditionally, discussions of Classic Maya political organization have been...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 538 p. The Classic Maya have long presented scholars with vexing problems. One of the longest running and most contested of these, and the source of deeply polarized interpretations, has been their political organization. Using recently deciphered inscriptions and fresh archaeological finds, Simon Martin argues that this particular debate can...
University Press of Colorado, 2001. — 280 p. The prevailing view of the lowland Maya during the Postclassic period (A.D. 1050-1500) has been one of an impoverished, "degenerated" society devoid of cultural accomplishment. However, Marilyn A. Masson offers a fresh interpretation of this society as one that represented a complex, sophisticated, extensive organization of...
University Press of Florida, 2020. — 654 p. A timely synthesis of the latest research and perspectives on ancient Maya economics, this volume illuminates the sophistication and intricacy of economic systems in the Preclassic, Classic, and Postclassic periods. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines move beyond paradigms of elite control and centralized exchange to focus...
University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 624 p. Kukulcan's Realm chronicles the fabric of socioeconomic relationships and religious practice that bound the Postclassic Maya city of Mayapán's urban residents together for nearly three centuries. Presenting results of ten years of household archaeology at the city, including field research and laboratory analysis, the book discusses the...
University Press of Colorado, 2017. — 446 p. Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos is a careful analysis and translation of five Highland Maya títulos composed in the sixteenth century by the Nija’ib’ K’iche’ of Guatemala. The Spanish conquest of Highland Guatemala entailed a series of sweeping changes to indigenous society, not the least of which were the...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 304 p. This nuanced account explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers an important reexamination of the mid-16th-century Popol Vuh, long considered an authoritative text, which is better understood as one among many crucial sources for the interpretation of ancient Maya art and myth. Using materials gathered across...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 304 p. This nuanced account explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers an important reexamination of the mid-16th-century Popol Vuh, long considered an authoritative text, which is better understood as one among many crucial sources for the interpretation of ancient Maya art and myth. Using materials gathered across...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 270 p. Situated at the intersection of cultural heritage and local community, this book enlarges our understanding of the Indigenous peoples of southern México and northern Central America who became detached from “the ancient Maya” through colonialism, government actions, and early twentieth-century anthropological and archaeological...
Texas A&M University Press, 2004. — 248 p.
Stone temples rising above the rainforest canopy and elaborate hieroglyphs carved onto stone monuments give silent testimony to the high culture of the Maya ancestors of the indigenous peoples of Central America. They have inspired generations of archaeologists, professional and avocational, to take to the field in search of the past....
ABC-Clio, 2004. — 472 p. Ranging from the end of the Ice Age to the flourishing of Mayan culture in the first millennium to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, The Ancient Maya takes a fresh look at a culture that has long held the public's imagination. Originally thought to be peaceful and spiritual, the Mayans are now also known to have been worldly, bureaucratic, and...
Lexington Books, 2017. — 238 p. This book investigates some of the central topics of metaphysics in the philosophical thought of the Maya people of Mesoamerica, particularly from the Preclassic through Postclassic periods. This book covers the topics of time, change, identity, and truth, through comparative investigation integrating Maya texts and practices - such as Classic...
Lexington Books, 2017. — 238 p. This book investigates some of the central topics of metaphysics in the philosophical thought of the Maya people of Mesoamerica, particularly from the Preclassic through Postclassic periods. This book covers the topics of time, change, identity, and truth, through comparative investigation integrating Maya texts and practices - such as Classic...
Weiser Books, 2012. — 124 p. — ISBN10: 1578635330, 13 978-1578635337. There have been many interpretations and predictions about the year 2012, known as the Mayan End Time--touted in everything from books to television commercials. But what do the Mayans themselves have to say about these prophecies?In The Mayan Ouroboros, the much-anticipated follow-up to his bestselling...
University of Texas Press, 2000. - 382 p.
Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Precolumbian Maya art and confirmed by the...
University of Texas Press, 2000. — 382 p. Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Precolumbian Maya art and confirmed by the...
Dumbarton Oaks, 1982. — 134 p. In a literal sense, the finding of lost objects and information about them constitutes a major endeavor of archaeology and the history of art. In the case of Tancah and Tulum, their murals were in a state of decay and their very appearance as well as their contexts largely unknown. But the sense of loss in the murals does not lie in their...
Dumbarton Oaks, 1982. — 134 p. In a literal sense, the finding of lost objects and information about them constitutes a major endeavor of archaeology and the history of art. In the case of Tancah and Tulum, their murals were in a state of decay and their very appearance as well as their contexts largely unknown. But the sense of loss in the murals does not lie in their...
University of Texas Press, 2005. - 260 p.
When Mayan leaders protested the celebration of the Quincentenary of the "discovery" of America and joined with other indigenous groups in the Americas to proclaim an alternate celebration of 500 years of resistance, they rose to national prominence in Guatemala. This was possible in part because of the cultural, political, economic,...
Second printing. — Stanford: Stenford University Press, 1958. — 507 p. The rich findings of recent exploration and research are incorporated in this completely revised and greatly expanded edition of the standard work on the New World's most brilliant civilization that of the Maya people of northern Central America and southern Mexico. From its shadowy beginnings centuries...
University Press of Colorado, 2019. — 326 p. Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica focuses on the conflicts of the ancient Maya, providing a holistic history of Maya hostilities and comparing them with those of neighboring Mesoamerican villages and towns. Contributors to the volume explore the varied stories of past Maya conflicts through artifacts, architecture, texts, and images...
University Press of Colorado, 2021. — 398 p. This volume offers an integrated and comparative approach to the Popol Vuh, analyzing its myths to elucidate the ancient Maya past while using multiple lines of evidence to shed light on the text. Combining interpretations of the myths with analyses of archaeological, iconographic, epigraphic, ethnohistoric, ethnographic, and...
University Press of Colorado, 2021. — 398 p. This volume offers an integrated and comparative approach to the Popol Vuh, analyzing its myths to elucidate the ancient Maya past while using multiple lines of evidence to shed light on the text. Combining interpretations of the myths with analyses of archaeological, iconographic, epigraphic, ethnohistoric, ethnographic, and...
University of Texas Press, 2009. — 294 p. Assemblies of rectangular stone pillars, or stelae, fill the plazas and courts of ancient Maya cities throughout the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras. Mute testimony to state rituals that linked the king's power to rule with the rhythms and renewal of time, the stelae document the ritual acts of...
Spangenhelm Publishing, 2016. — 198 p. The History of the Maya definitively traces the cultural evolution of the Maya civilization from the arrival of migrating 'first peoples' to the end of the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican World with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. A span of some thousands of years are concisely covered in one volume in a thorough study of the history...
Spangenhelm Publishing, 2016. — 198 p. The History of the Maya definitively traces the cultural evolution of the Maya civilization from the arrival of migrating 'first peoples' to the end of the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican World with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. A span of some thousands of years are concisely covered in one volume in a thorough study of the history...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 212 p. K’Oben traces the Maya kitchen and its associated hardware, ingredients, and cooking styles from the earliest times for which we have archaeological evidence through today’s culinary tourism in the area. It focuses not only on what was eaten and how it was cooked, but the people involved: who grew or sourced the foods, who cooked...
Weiser, 2012. — 304 p. The Maya have been an enigma since their discovery in the mid- 19th century. Maya science developed an elegant mathematic system, an incredibly accurate astronomy, and one of the world's five original written languages. This technology was more advanced than similar European technology by more than a thousand years. In this book, you'll see how James...
University Press of Florida, 2021. — 472 p. Examining changes to the institution of divine kingship from 750 to 950 CE in the Maya lowland cities, Maya Kingship presents a new way of studying the collapse of that civilization and the transformation of political systems between the Terminal Classic and Postclassic Periods. Leading experts in Maya studies offer insights into the...
University Press of Florida, 2021. — 472 p. Examining changes to the institution of divine kingship from 750 to 950 CE in the Maya lowland cities, Maya Kingship presents a new way of studying the collapse of that civilization and the transformation of political systems between the Terminal Classic and Postclassic Periods. Leading experts in Maya studies offer insights into the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. — 272 p. Now shrouded in Guatemalan jungle, the ancient Maya city of Piedras Negras flourished between the sixth and ninth centuries, when its rulers erected monumental limestone sculptures carved with hieroglyphic texts and images of themselves and family members, advisers, and captives. In Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras ,...
Reaktion Books, 2022. — 296 p. An illuminating look at the myriad communities who have engaged with the ancient Maya over the centuries. This book reveals how the ancient Maya - and their buildings, ideas, objects, and identities - have been perceived, portrayed, and exploited over five hundred years in the Americas, Europe, and beyond. Engaging in interdisciplinary analysis,...
Reaktion Books, 2022. — 296 p. An illuminating look at the myriad communities who have engaged with the ancient Maya over the centuries. This book reveals how the ancient Maya - and their buildings, ideas, objects, and identities - have been perceived, portrayed, and exploited over five hundred years in the Americas, Europe, and beyond. Engaging in interdisciplinary analysis,...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2011. — 448 p. La civilización Maya fue una de las más importantes de Mesoamérica, sus impresionantes pirámides y construcciones siguen maravillando al mundo, todavía más si se tiene en cuenta que fueron construidas sin usar animales de carga o la rueda o que sus majestuosas ciudades se construyeron ganándole metro a metro a la selva. La cultura maya además,...
Routledge, 2018. — 470 p. First published 1990. Changes in the orientation of archaeological research in the post-World War n period affected Maya studies. The cultural ecological perspective, which was rising to prominence, put an old debate in bold relief: How had this prehistoric civilization adapted to the tropical forest environment? How could swidden cultivation have...
Foreword by Jaime J. Awe. — BAR Publishing, 2020. — 272 p. — (BAR International Series 2970/Archaeology of the Maya 4). This volume presents the results of 35 years of archaeological research at the Maya site of Pacbitun, located in west central Belize. The site was continuously occupied from 900 BC to AD 800/900. Excavations focused on both the site core and periphery, with...
Reissue ed. — Dover Publications, 2003. — 144 p. — (Native American). — ISBN: 0486424847, 9780486424842. Magnificent guide presents 36 sites from Central America and southern Mexico as they appeared more than a thousand years ago: Temple of the Cross, Palenque; Acropolis and Maya sweat bath, Piedras Negras; Red House and north terrace at Chichén Itzá; more. Each illustration...
University Press of Colorado, 2005. — 432 p. Cave archaeology in the New World, now a focus of intense research, was still a peripheral area of inquiry just fifteen years ago. Stone Houses and Earth Lords is the first volume dedicated exclusively to the use of caves in the Maya Lowlands, covering primarily Classic Period archaeology from A.D. 100 through the Spaniards' arrival....
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 264 p. When the Spanish arrived in Yucatán in 1526, they found an established political system based on lordship, a system the Spanish initially integrated into their colonial rule, but ultimately dismantled. In Maya Lords and Lordship , Sergio Quezada builds on the work of earlier scholars and reexamines Yucatec Maya political and social...
Autor de la publicación no especificado. — Madrid: Establecimiento Tipografico "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra", 1898. — 438 p. Este es treslado bien y fielmente sacado de una cedula rreal de su magestad, firmada del rreal nonbre y rrefrendada de antonio de heraso, su secretario, escripta en papel, segun por ella parescia, su thenor déla qual sacada a la letra dize desta manera: El...
Autor de la publicación no especificado. — Madrid: Establecimiento Tipografico "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra", 1900. — 409 p. Este es treslado bien y fielmente sacado de una cedula rreal de su magestad, firmada del rreal nonbre y rrefrendada de antonio de heraso, su secretario, escripta en papel, segun por ella parescia, su thenor déla qual sacada a la letra dize desta manera: El...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 152 p. The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations. They mastered the visual arts, and developed a sophisticated writing system that recorded extraordinary...
Beacon Press, 1998. — 272 p. Exploring firsthand accounts written by Maya nobles from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries-many of them previously untranslated-Restall offers the first Maya account of the conquest. The story holds surprising twists: The conquistadors were not only Spaniards but also Mayas, reconstructing their own governance and society, and the...
Stanford University Press, 1999. — 476 p. This path-breaking work is a social and cultural history of the Maya peoples of the province of Yucatan in colonial Mexico, spanning the period from shortly after the Spanish conquest of the region to its incorporation as part of an independent Mexico. Instead of depending on the Spanish sources and perspectives that have formed the...
University of Texas Press, 2004. - 377 p.
How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization, superordinate and subordinate...
University of Texas Press, 2004. — 376 p. How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization, superordinate and subordinate...
Berlin: C.H. Beck Wissen, 2010.
Wissenschaftler haben erst in den vergangenen 30 Jahren die politische Geschichte der Maya und ihre Religion mit den oft blutigen Ritualen entschlüsselt. Nichts mehr von der angeblich friedlichen und beschaulichen Geschichte dieser Indianer, wie sie die frühere Forschung hat glauben machen wollen, hat Bestand.
Charles River Editors Press, 2016. — 179 p. Many ancient civilizations have influenced and inspired people in the 21st century, like the Greeks and the Romans, but of all the world’s civilizations, none have intrigued people more than the Mayans, whose culture, astronomy, language, and mysterious disappearance all continue to captivate people. At the heart of the fascination is...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 242 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 55). K'awiil: El dios maya del rayo, la abundancia y los gobernantes analiza a una de las deidades más importantes del panteón maya, lo que nos permite aproximarnos al pensamiento religioso de este pueblo, ya que es a través de los mitos, los rituales y otras actividades religiosas y culturales en las...
University of Virginia Art Museum, 1981. — 264 p. This book is a major contribution to the understanding of the culture and religious beliefs of the Classic Maya in Mexico and Central America. This scholarly beautifully researched volume is ample testimony that Maya research is passing through a very exciting phase, during while a lot of dust is being shaken off many shelves....
University of Oklahoma Press, 1978. — 335 p. The use of tobacco among the Mayas and their cousins in the rest of the New World not only was a social custom, as it is in our society nowadays, but had far-reaching implications in religion and medicine and a lasting impact on art.
University Press of Florida, 2012. — 448 p. The farming community of Chan thrived for over twenty centuries, surpassing the longevity of many larger Maya urban centers. Between 800 BC and 1200 AD it was a major food production center, and this collection of essays reveals the important role played by Maya farmers in the development of ancient Maya society. Chan offers a...
University Press of Florida, 2013. — 264 p. While the study of ancient civilizations most often focuses on temples and royal tombs, a substantial part of the archaeological record remains hidden in the understudied day-to-day lives of artisans, farmers, hunters, and other ordinary people of the ancient world. Various chores completed during the course of a person’s daily life,...
Chelsea House, 2009. — 159 p. — (Great Empires of the Past). Gives a summary of the history of the Maya Empire, placing it within the context of its time period and geographical location. This book explores the evolution of Maya civilization from its origin through the classic period to the Spanish conquest. It includes Maya achievements in mathematics, astronomy, political...
Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1995. — 49 p. — ISBN 0-660-14040-3. Mystery of the Maya relates the story of the Classic Maya, a remarkable people who inhabited the ancient region known as Mesoamerica between A.D. 250 and 900. Among many other achievements, the Maya developed a hieroglyphic writing system to record their history and beliefs, used sophisticated...
Stanford University Press, 2009. — 484 p. This book explores the origins, process, and consequences of forty years of nearly continual political violence in southeastern Mexico. Rather than recounting the well-worn narrative of the Caste War, it focuses instead on how four decades of violence helped shape social and political institutions of the Mexican southeast. Rebellion Now...
Dumbarton Oaks, 1993. — 482 p. Overview and background Eighth-Century Physical Geography, Environment, and Natural Resources in the Maya Lowlands don s. Organization of Ancient Maya societies The Economics of Social Power and Wealth among Eighth-Century Maya Households The Social Organization of the Late Classic Maya: Problems of Definition and Approaches Ancient Maya Political...
William Morrow, 1990. — 542 p. The recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. In this book, two of the first central figures in the massive effort to decode the glyphs, Linda Schele and David Freidel, make this history available in all its detail. A Forest of Kings is the story of...
Dumbarton Oaks, 1979. — 180 p. Illustrated with both black-and-white photographs and line drawings, this catalogue records the most important objects in the storeroom of the museum at Palenque.
University of New Mexico Press, 2024. — 408 p. Substance of the Ancient Maya: Kingdoms and Communities, Objects and Beings collects twelve essays by top scholars that highlight what is new in research pertaining to the ancient Maya. Subjects range from updated political histories of major kingdoms in the southern Maya Lowlands to explorations of the nature of Maya writing and...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 304 p. The Classic Maya civilization, which thrived between 200-950 CE in eastern Mesoamerica, faced many environmental challenges, including those wrought by climate change. The ability of Maya communities to adapt their resource conservation practices played a crucial role in allowing them to survive for as long as they did. Researchers today...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 304 p. The Classic Maya civilization, which thrived between 200-950 CE in eastern Mesoamerica, faced many environmental challenges, including those wrought by climate change. The ability of Maya communities to adapt their resource conservation practices played a crucial role in allowing them to survive for as long as they did. Researchers today...
2nd Edition — Greenwood, 2009. — 280 p. Experience daily life in Maya civilization, from its earliest beginnings to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Narrative chapters describe Mayan political life, economy, social structure, religion, writing, warfare, and scientific methods. Readers will explore the Mayan calendar, counting system, hunting and gathering methods,...
6th Edition — Stanford University Press, 2006. — 984 p. This book traces the evolution of Maya civilization through the Pre-Columbian era, a span of some 2,500 years from the origins of complex society within Mesoamerica to the end of the Pre-Columbian world with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. The sixth edition presents new archaeological evidence and historical...
Thames & Hudson, 2008. — 241 p. The ideal reference on Maya archaeology.—Science NewsBehind the ancient cities of the Maya and their abandoned artworks lie the turbulent stories of their ruling dynasties. One of the world's greatest and most powerful civilizations, the Maya experienced constant conflict in a landscape divided among numerous kingdoms. Intense rivalries,...
University Press of Colorado, 2020. — 444 p. In Rewriting Maya Religion Garry Sparks examines the earliest religious documents composed by missionaries and native authors in the Americas, including a reconstruction of the first original, explicit Christian theology written in the Americas - the nearly 900-page Theologia Indorum ( Theology for [or of] the Indians ), initially...
New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. — 440 p. — ISBN10: 082635579X; ISBN13: 978-0826355799. Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them. The Maya provide a particularly strong example of the ways in...
University Press of Colorado, 2020. — 348 p. David Freidel and Linda Schele’s monumental work A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (1990) offered an innovative, rigorous, and controversial approach to studying the ancient Maya, unifying archaeological, iconographic, and epigraphic data in a form accessible to both scholars and laypeople. Travis Stanton and...
University of Texas Press, 2010. — 304 p. In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten, Guatemala. One of the world's few deep caves that contain rock art, Naj Tunich features figural images and hieroglyphic inscriptions that have helped to revolutionize our understanding of ancient Maya art and...
University of Texas Press, 2010. — 304 p. In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten, Guatemala. One of the world's few deep caves that contain rock art, Naj Tunich features figural images and hieroglyphic inscriptions that have helped to revolutionize our understanding of ancient Maya art and...
University of Texas Press, 2010. — 304 p. In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten, Guatemala. One of the world's few deep caves that contain rock art, Naj Tunich features figural images and hieroglyphic inscriptions that have helped to revolutionize our understanding of ancient Maya art and...
Thames & Hudson, 2008. — 272 p. Sunday, 15 June 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...
Washington: National Geographic Society, 1993. — 248 p. — ISBN: 978-0870449284. "All was mystery, dark, impenetrable mystery, and every circumstance increased it." So wrote 19th-century explorer John Lloyd Stephens after journeying through the rain forests of Mesoamerica in search of cities long shrouded under a dense canopy of vegetation. Today some of the mystery has been...
Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1977. — 199 p. History of the Indian civilization that existed in Central America from A.D. 250 to 900. Foreword (Richard E. W. Adams). Beginnings of the Maya Way. An Age of Splendor. The Blending of Worlds (George E. Stuart). Conquest and Aftermath. The Round of Life (Gene S. Stuart).
Les éditions du Cerf, 2020. — 336 p. Comment vivent et meurent les civilisations? On connaît leurs pyramides. On sait peu sur leurs bâtisseurs. Il manquait un livre total sur les Mayas. Le voici, par notre plus grand historien de la Méso-Amérique. Un monument appelé à devenir un classique et d'une profonde actualité. Catastrophe écologique causée par une surexploitation...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1992. — 160 p.
"The Major Gods of Ancient Yucatan" is an excellent new analysis and synthetic interpretation of most of the principal gods of the ancient Maya, clarifying and demystifying their forms and functions in a rigorous, scholarly manner, while simultaneously conveying some sense of the numinous powers they represented for...
University of California Press, 2011. — 480 p. Mayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day. Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the works of later writers using the Roman alphabet. Dennis Tedlock - ethnographer,...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 372 p. Here is one of the most important surviving works of pre-Columbian civilization, Rabinal Achi, a Mayan drama set a century before the arrival of the Spanish, produced by the translator of the best selling Popol Vuh. The first direct translation into English from Quich? Maya, based on the original text, Rabinal Achi is the story of...
Washington: 1900. — p. 693-819. Extract from the 19th and 22nd annual reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. Prefatory notes Time series in the codices and inscriptions The Dresden codex Inscriptions at Palenque Tablet of the Cross Tablet of the Sun Tablet of the Foliated Cross Temple of Inscriptions Tikal inscriptions Copan inscriptions...
Washington: 1900. — p. 197-320. Extract from the 19th and 22nd annual reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. Prefatory note Initial series of Mayan inscriptions Secondary numeral series of the Qnirigna inscriptions Maya chronological system The Cakchiquel calendar Maya method of calculation Signification of the numeral series Inscription at...
Springer, 2007. - 328 p. (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) The central goal of this book is to contribute to the timely discussion and understanding of Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. Most school children in the US learn about the Maya and their practices based on their cultural and religious beliefs in their Social Studies classes. But a...
Dumbarton Oaks, 2013. — 180 p. — (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Studies Series). Understanding the ways in which human communities define themselves in relation to landscapes has been one of the crucial research questions in anthropology. Place and Identity in Classic Maya Narratives addresses this question in the context of the Classic Maya culture that...
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2016. — 704 p. The Pre-Columbian Maya were organized into a series of independent kingdoms or polities rather than unified into a single state. The vast majority of studies of Maya states focus on the apogee of their development in the classic period, ca. 250-850 C.E. As a result, Maya states are defined...
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2016. — 704 p. The Pre-Columbian Maya were organized into a series of independent kingdoms or polities rather than unified into a single state. The vast majority of studies of Maya states focus on the apogee of their development in the classic period, ca. 250-850 C.E. As a result, Maya states are defined according...
University Press of Florida, 2019. — 240 p. Pre-Columbian artifacts are among the most popular items on the international antiquities market, yet it is becoming increasingly difficult to monitor these items as public, private, and digital sales proliferate. This timely volume explores past, current, and future policies and trends concerning the sales and illicit movement of...
University Press of Florida, 2019. — 240 p. Pre-Columbian artifacts are among the most popular items on the international antiquities market, yet it is becoming increasingly difficult to monitor these items as public, private, and digital sales proliferate. This timely volume explores past, current, and future policies and trends concerning the sales and illicit movement of...
University of Texas Press, 1986. — 412 p. Archaeologists are continually faced with a pervasive problem: how can cultures, and the interactions among cultures, be differentiated in the archaeological record? This issue is especially difficult in peripheral areas, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and southern Guatemala in the New World. Encompassing zones that are clearly Mayan in...
University Press of Colorado, 2013. — 534 p. Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts, Vail and Hernández show that in...
University Press of Colorado, 2013. — 534 p. Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts, Vail and Hernández show that in...
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mëxico, 2010. — 758 p. MAYAS guia de arquitectuta y paisaje ofrece una visita a las tierras, las ciudades y las creaciones de una de las culturas más importantes de América. Una cultura viva. de las planicies atlánticas de tabasco y campeche, en méxico, a la costa del pacífico; de las tierras altas de Guatemala y Chiapas, a las bajas de Peten y...
Monografía. — México: Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2001. — 275 p. — ISBN: 968-36-9345-8. Índice: Introducción Los putunes y su problemática Consideraciones generales Los chontales o putunes de Acalan, Xicalango y Potonchán Planteamiento del problema Historia y arqueología de Acalan La provincia de Acalan-Tixchel...
University Press of Florida, 2016. — 355 p. — (Maya Studies). — ISBN: 978-0-8130-6279-2. Perspectives on the Ancient Maya of Chetumal Bay focuses on archaeological investigations at ancient Maya archaeological sites in Mexico and Belize adjacent to Chetumal Bay as well as on the rivers and lagoons to the north and south of this area. Collaborators in the volume have in common...
Dumbarton Oaks, 1989. — 122 p. Claude Baudez, William Fash, Jr., Berthold Riese, William Sanders, and David Webster contribute to this monograph, and using an integrated art historical and anthropological approach, consider the House of the Bacabs’ context as an elite Maya structure, its excavation and restoration, and its iconographic and epigraphic reconstruction and...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 162 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 49). The Classic Maya (AD 250-900) of central and southern Yucatan were long seen as exceptional in many ways. We now know that they did not invent Mesoamerican writing or calendars, that they were just as warlike as other ancient peoples, that many innovations in art and architecture attributed to them...
Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. — 221 p., 4 b/w illus & 1 map. In Maya Daykeeping, three divinatory calendars from highland Guatemala-examples of a Mayan literary tradition that includes the Popul Vuh, Annals of the Cakchiquels, and the Titles of the Lords of Totonicapan-dating to 1685, 1722, and 1855, are transcribed in K'iche or Kaqchikel side-by-side with...
BAR Publishing, 2011. — 252 р. There has been a phenomenal increase in the literature published about the ancient, historical, and modern Maya between 2000 and 2010. This volume provides bibliographic coverage for the literature pertaining to the ancient and modern Maya of southern Mexico and northern Central America published between 2000 and 2010. Coverage is somewhat...
University of Alabama Press, 2006. — 308 p. In the ninth century, southern lowland Maya civilization went into a mysterious decline. Despite the wealth of information that bones could potentially provide towards explaining the collapse, bioarchaeologists have been traditionally unable to study Maya bones because the tropical climate and uninformed excavations have resulted in...
Crescent Books, 1978. — 104 p. Colored photographs and text illustrate contemporary life in Yucatan and provide a brief history of its past. The Yucatan peninsula, stretching from the Gull of Mexico to the Caribbean is a land inhabited by the gods, for in its sacred cities the ancient Mayas worshipped the Rain god and in its great temples and ceremonial centres the mysteries of...
Peabody Museum, 1965. — 631 p. — (Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Vol. 54). The present report has been in preparation, if somewhat intermittently, since the inception of the field work in 1953. This report is organized into four main parts. The first of these deals with the general background to the problems of prehistoric Maya...
Brill, 2024. — 248 p. This volume is the first comprehensive atlas of the Maya region published since 1940. Large-format pages provide 119 detailed full-color maps with striking terrain and over 10,000 known site locations, sacbes, fortifications, emblem glyphs, inscriptions, and LiDAR coverage. Area maps show elevations, rainfall, physiography, soils, and political...
Brill, 2024. — 248 p. This volume is the first comprehensive atlas of the Maya region published since 1940. Large-format pages provide 119 detailed full-color maps with striking terrain and over 10,000 known site locations, sacbes, fortifications, emblem glyphs, inscriptions, and LiDAR coverage. Area maps show elevations, rainfall, physiography, soils, and political...
Brill, 2024. — 248 p. This volume is the first comprehensive atlas of the Maya region published since 1940. Large-format pages provide 119 detailed full-color maps with striking terrain and over 10,000 known site locations, sacbes, fortifications, emblem glyphs, inscriptions, and LiDAR coverage. Area maps show elevations, rainfall, physiography, soils, and political...
University Press of Florida, 2017. — 318 p. Chichen Itza, the legendary capital and trading hub of the late Maya civilization, continues to fascinate visitors and researchers with unanswered questions about its people, rulers, rituals, economics, religion, politics, and even chronology. Addressing many of these current debates, contributors to Landscapes of the Itza question...
Перевод с английского, комментарии и послесловие В.И. Гуляева. — М.: Наука, 1966. — 215 с. Открытие и завоевание. Забытая цивилизация. Джон Ллойд Стефенс _ первооткрыватель древних городов. Мифы и теории. Рождение науки. Американские индейцы. Проблема происхождения. Поиски истоков. Классический период. Шесть веков прогресса. «Царская» гробница в Паленке. Бонампак — зеркало...
Перевод с английского, комментарии и послесловие В.И. Гуляева. — М.: Наука, 1966. — 215 с. Открытие и завоевание. Забытая цивилизация. Джон Ллойд Стефенс _ первооткрыватель древних городов. Мифы и теории. Рождение науки. Американские индейцы. Проблема происхождения. Поиски истоков. Классический период. Шесть веков прогресса. «Царская» гробница в Паленке. Бонампак — зеркало...
М.: Наука, 1966. — 216 с. Перевод известнейшей книги, посвященной истории цивилизации майя. Книга богато иллюстрирована фотографиями. Примечания выдающегося специалиста по индейским культурам Гуляева. Увлекательный рассказано о древнем легендарном народе майя. Подробно излагается история народа майя, история его открытия, исследования современных археологов.
М.: Наука, 1979. — 304 с.
В книге рассматриваются вопросы внутренней структуры и функций древнего города. На основе археологических, этнографических и исторических материалов автор делает выводы о природе городов майя, сопоставляя их с городскими центрами других раннеклассовых обществ: Египта, Шумера и т.д.
Определение понятия "город".
История археологического изучения...
М.: Знание, 1983. - 176 с. Автор факт за фактом освобождает от мифологических наслоений историю майя. Зачастую эти факты оказываются интереснее самих легенд. Введение. Погребенные в джунглях. Чальчуапа и Куикуилько - несостоявшиеся цивилизации. Царская гробница в Паленке: легенды и факты. Становой хребет «Древнего царства». Майя - 'финикийцы Нового Света'. Карта полуострова...
М.: Знание, 1983. — 176 с. Изучение древних культур индейцев началось еще в XVI веке. Однако прошлое этого гигантского континента известно нам далеко не полностью. Ученые не могут, например, объяснить до конца загадку таинственных «рисунков» в перуанской пустыне Наска. Немало споров вызывают и двенадцатитонные каменные шары в дебрях Коста-Рики. Кто создал эти колоссы? Когда? С...
М.: Знание, 1983. — 176 с. Изучение древних культур индейцев началось еще в XVI веке. Однако прошлое этого гигантского континента известно нам далеко не полностью. Ученые не могут, например, объяснить до конца загадку таинственных «рисунков» в перуанской пустыне Наска. Немало споров вызывают и двенадцатитонные каменные шары в дебрях Коста-Рики. Кто создал эти колоссы? Когда? С...
Изучение древних культур индейцев началось еще в XVI веке. Однако прошлое этого гигантского континента известно нам далеко не полностью. Ученые не могут, например, объяснить до конца загадку таинственных «рисунков» в перуанской пустыне Наска. Немало споров вызывают и двенадцатитонные каменные шары в дебрях Коста-Рики. Кто создал эти колоссы? Когда? С какой целью? Что вызвало к...
Гуляев В. И. Забытые города майя. Проблемы искусства и архитектуры. М. , 1984. — 184 с, ил. Работа доктора исторических наук В. И. Гуляева посвящена одной из наименее разработанных областей в истории мирового искусства — искусству древних майя. Текст книги основан на материалах археологических раскопок последних лет и знакомит читателя с обширным кругом памятников, не...
М.: Искусство, 1984. — 184 с. : ил. Работа доктора исторических наук В. И. Гуляева посвящена одной из наименее разработанных областей в истории мирового искусства — искусству древних майя. Текст книги основан на материалах археологических раскопок последних лет и знакомит читателя с обширным кругом памятников, не анализировавшихся ранее в советских изданиях. Обильное...
М.: Искусство, 1984. — 184 с. Работа доктора исторических наук В.И. Гуляева посвящена одной из наименее разработанных областей в истории мирового искусства — искусству древних майя. Текст книги основан на материалах археологических раскопок последних лет и знакомит читателя с обширным кругом памятников, не анализировавшихся ранее в советских изданиях. Обильное привлечение...
Пер. со старо-испанского, ввод. ст. и примеч. Ю. В. Кнорозова. Отв. ред. Д. А. Ольдерогге. — М. – Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1955. — 329 с. «Сообщение о делах в Юкатане» Диэго де Ланда – основной источник по истории и этнографии индейцев майя во времена испанского завоевания. Ланда недаром называли «первоначальным историком» (historiador primordial) Юкатана» В его...
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Когда в 16 веке испанские священники появились на Юкатане, они находили сотни книг и сжигали их. Один из видов летописи древнего народа был потерян почти навсегда.
Что же осталось нам из письменного наследия древних майя? К счастью, от костров испанской инквизиции чудом уцелели четыре рукописи майя. На длинной...
Исторический источник. Фотоизображение. 74 с.
Когда в 16 веке испанские священники появились на Юкатане, они находили сотни книг и сжигали их. Один из видов летописи древнего народа был потерян почти навсегда.
Что же осталось нам из письменного наследия древних майя? К счастью, от костров испанской инквизиции чудом уцелели четыре рукописи майя. На длинной полосе коричневой...
Смоленск: Русич, 2012. — 416 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8138-1031-2 Майя - великие астрономы, математики, архитекторы и. предсказатели? В настоящее время известна вся хронология зарождения, развития и заката цивилизации майя с точностью до года. Но какое послание для нас, ныне живущих, зашифровано в последней дате их календаря - 13 августа 2012 года? Мир замер в ожидании.
Смоленск: Русич, 2012. - 416 с. ISBN: 978 5813810312
Майя - великие астрономы, математики, архитекторы и. предсказатели? В настоящее время известна вся хронология зарождения, развития и заката цивилизации майя с точностью до года. Но какое послание для нас, ныне живущих, зашифровано в последней дате их календаря - 13 августа 2012 года? Мир замер в ожидании.
М.: Русич, 2012. - 420 с.
Майя - великие астрономы, математики, архитекторы и. предсказатели? В настоящее время известна вся хронология зарождения, развития и заката цивилизации майя с точностью до года. Но какое послание для нас, ныне живущих, зашифровано в последней дате их календаря - 13 августа 2012 года? Мир замер в ожидании.
М.: Алетейа, 2004. — 296 с. — (Vita memoriae). — ISBN: 5-89351-123-5. Автор книги - доктор исторических наук, директор Мезоамериканского Центра им. Ю.В. Кнорозова РГГУ и сотрудник Института археологии РАН Галина Гавриловна Ершова. Книга посвящена древней иероглифике индейцев майя и представляет собой своеобразное учебное пособие, с помощью которого даже неподготовленный...
М.: Алетейа, 2004. — 296 с. — (Vita memoriae) — ISBN: 5-89321-123-5. Автор книги - доктор исторических наук, директор Мезоамериканского Центра им. Ю.В. Кнорозова РГГУ и сотрудник Института археологии РАН Галина Гавриловна Ершова. Книга посвящена древней иероглифике индейцев майя и представляет собой своеобразное учебное пособие, с помощью которого даже неподготовленный читатель...
М.: Космополис, 1997. — 130 с. В работе рассматриваются проблемы системы родства древних майя, создавших единственную письменную цивилизацию на территории Американского континента.
М.: Космополис, 1997. — 130 с. Автор - сотрудник Института Археологии РАН к.и.н. Г.Г.Ершова, специалист по иероглифическим текстам древних майя. В работе рассматриваются проблемы системы родства древних майя, создавших единственную письменную цивилизацию на территории Американского континента. Издание представляет интерес для исследователей, работающих в области археологии,...
М.: Ладомир, 2000. — 564 с.
Первая в мире биографическая повесть «Фрай Диего де Ланда» написана Г. Г. Ершовой,
знатоком культуры и древнего письма майя. Автор — сотрудник Института археологии РАН,
директор Центра мезоамериканских исследований им. Ю. В. Кнорозова РГГУ. Книга посвящена францисканскому монаху Диего де Ланде Кальдерону, отправившемуся в средние века из Испании в...
М.: Ладомир, 2000. — 564 с. — ISBN: 5-86218-343-4.
Первая в мире биографическая повесть "Фрай Диего де Ланда" посвящена францисканскому монаху Диего де Ланде Кальдерону, отправившемуся в средние века из Испании в Новый Свет, а именно - в Мексику, обращать в христианство индейцев майя. Однако проблемы, с которыми столкнулся отважный миссионер, касались не только катехизации...
М.: Алгоритм, 2017. — 368 с. — (Величайшие цивилизации мира). — ISBN: 978-5-906947-51-2. В книге рассказывается о поселениях индейцев майя на полуострове Юкатан до испанского завоевания. Подробно описаны города Эк-Балам, Ушмаль (VIII–IX вв.) и центр культуры майя Чичен-Ица (IX–XIII вв.). Приведены сведения о поселениях майя XIII–XVI вв.: город Тулум и две археологические зоны...
М.: Алгоритм, 2017. — 368 с. — (Величайшие цивилизации мира). — ISBN 978-5-906947-51-2. В книге рассказывается о поселениях индейцев майя на полуострове Юкатан до испанского завоевания. Подробно описаны города Эк-Балам, Ушмаль (VIII–IX вв.) и центр культуры майя Чичен-Ица (IX–XIII вв.). Приведены сведения о поселениях майя XIII–XVI вв.: город Тулум и две археологические зоны на...
М.: Алгоритм, 2017. — 368 с. — (Величайшие цивилизации мира). — ISBN 978-5-906947-51-2. В книге рассказывается о поселениях индейцев майя на полуострове Юкатан до испанского завоевания. Подробно описаны города Эк-Балам, Ушмаль (VIII–IX вв.) и центр культуры майя Чичен-Ица (IX–XIII вв.). Приведены сведения о поселениях майя XIII–XVI вв.: город Тулум и две археологические зоны на...
Москва: Искусство, 1968. — 202 с. Книга Р.В. Кинжалова посвящена древнему искусству народов майя. Эта работа впервые познакомит широкий круг русских читателей с замечательными произведениями архитектуры, живописи и скульптуры индейских мастеров. Искусство майя доклассического периода XV в до н.э. — II в. н.э. Архитектура классического периода II—IX вв. н.э. Скульптура...
Москва: Искусство, 1968. — 202 с. Книга Р.В. Кинжалова посвящена древнему искусству народов майя. Эта работа впервые познакомит широкий круг русских читателей с замечательными произведениями архитектуры, живописи и скульптуры индейских мастеров. Искусство майя доклассического периода XV в до н.э. — II в. н.э. Архитектура классического периода II—IX вв. н.э. Скульптура...
М.: Наука, 1971. — 368 с. Задача настоящей работы — дать (впервые на русском языке) общую характеристику древней культуры народов майя за все ее более чем двухтысячелетнее развитие, начиная с самых ранних этапов и кончая трагической гибелью от меча испанских конкистадоров. Содержание Предисловие Введение Источники и история изучения Хозяйство и материальная культура Некоторые...
Монография. — Л., Наука: 1971. — 364 с. Задача настоящей работы — дать (впервые на русском языке) общую характеристику древней культуры народов майя за все ее более чем двухтысячелетнее развитие, начиная с самых ранних этапов и кончая трагической гибелью от меча испанских конкистадоров. Содержание Предисловие Введение Источники и история изучения Хозяйство и материальная...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1968. — 368 с., ил. — (Эврика). Вскоре после окончания Второй мировой войны в мексиканских лесах обнаружили полуразрушенный храм, расписанный изнутри великолепными фресками майя. Кто он, этот удивительный народ-строитель? Откуда пришел? Откуда взялись его таинственные письмена? Какими знаниями должны были обладать создатели знаменитого календаря, если,...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1968. — 368 с.: ил. — (Эврика). Вскоре после окончания Второй мировой войны в мексиканских лесах обнаружили полуразрушенный храм, расписанный изнутри великолепными фресками майя. Кто он, этот удивительный народ-строитель? Откуда пришел? Откуда взялись его таинственные письмена? Какими знаниями должны были обладать создатели знаменитого календаря, если,...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1968. — 368 с., ил. — (Эврика). Двадцать лет назад в мексиканских лесах Чиапаса обнаружили полуразрушенный храм, расписанный изнутри великолепными фресками. Это был храм Города разрисованных стен древнего загадочного народа майя. Кто он, этот удивительный народ-строитель? Откуда он пришел? Как и когда зародилась его культура? Кто научил его писать? Какими...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1968. — 368 с.: ил. — (Эврика). Двадцать лет назад в мексиканских лесах Чиапаса обнаружили полуразрушенный храм, расписанный изнутри великолепными фресками. Это был храм Города разрисованных стен древнего загадочного народа майя. Кто он, этот удивительный народ-строитель? Откуда он пришел? Как и когда зародилась его культура? Кто научил его писать? Какими...
2-е изд., сокр. — М.: Молодая гвардия, 1975. — 256 с.: ил. — (Эврика). Двадцать девять лет назад в мексиканских лесах Чиапаса обнаружили храм, расписанный изнутри великолепными фресками. Это был храм города разрисованных стен древнего загадочного народа майя. Кто он, этот удивительный народ-строитель? Откуда он пришел? Как и когда зародилась его культура? Кто научил его писать?...
2-е изд., сокр. — М.: Молодая гвардия, 1975. — 256 с.: ил. — (Эврика). Двадцать девять лет назад в мексиканских лесах Чиапаса обнаружили храм, расписанный изнутри великолепными фресками. Это был храм города разрисованных стен древнего загадочного народа майя. Кто он, этот удивительный народ-строитель? Откуда он пришел? Как и когда зародилась его культура? Кто научил его писать?...
3-е изд. — Пер. Ю. Кнорозова. — Москва: ИГ Альма Матер, 2023. — 352 с. — (Эпохи. Средние века. Тексты). — ISBN 978-5-98426-223-1. «Сообщение о делах в Юкатане» - основной источник но истории и этнографии индейцев майя времен испанского завоевания. Этот текст, представляющий собой извлечения из не сохранившейся более полной рукописи, содержит богатый и разносторонний материал об...
Пер. со старо-исп., ввод. ст. и примеч. Ю. В. Кнорозова. Отв. ред. Д. А. Ольдерогге. — М. – Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1955. — 46 с. «Сообщение о делах в Юкатане» Диэго де Ланда – основной источник по истории и этнографии индейцев майя во времена испанского завоевания. Ланда недаром называли «первоначальным историком» (historiador primordial) Юкатана» В его работе нашли...
Пер. со старо-исп., ввод. ст. и примеч. Ю. В. Кнорозова. Отв. ред. Д. А. Ольдерогге. — М. – Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1955. — 329 с.
«Сообщение о делах в Юкатане» Диэго де Ланда – основной источник по истории и этнографии индейцев майя во времена испанского завоевания. Ланда недаром называли «первоначальным историком» (historiador primordial) Юкатана» В его работе...
Пер. со старо-исп., ввод. ст. и примеч. Ю. В. Кнорозова. Отв. ред. Д. А. Ольдерогге. — М. – Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1955. — 46 с.
«Сообщение о делах в Юкатане» Диэго де Ланда – основной источник по истории и этнографии индейцев майя во времена испанского завоевания. Ланда недаром называли «первоначальным историком» (historiador primordial) Юкатана» В его работе...
М.: РГГУ, 2000. — 192 с. — ISBN: 5-7281-0450-9. Вступительное слово. От авторов. Ершова Г.Г. Цивилизационные процессы: урбогенез в Старом и Новом Свете. Токовинин А. А. Некоторые аспекты игры в мяч у народов Мезоамерики. Семакина Е.А. Образ карлика в системе мировосприятия древних народов Центральной Америки. Красулин Е. А. Богиня луны в мифологических представлениях индейцев...
Под общ. ред. и с предисл. В. И. Гуляева; Послесл. Б. М. Мерина; Рис. Е. В. Савина. — М.: Детская литература, 1980. — 207 с., ил. В книге советской писательницы А. Ю. Макаровой рассказывается о путешествии археолога Д.-Л. Стефенса и художника Ф. Каэервуда, предпринятом ими в первой половине XIX века в Центральную Америку и на Юкатан — «страну индейцев майя» с целью найти и...
Под общ. ред. и с предисл. В. И. Гуляева; Послесл. Б. М. Мерина; Рис. Е. В. Савина. — М.: Детская литература, 1980. — 212 с., ил. В книге советской писательницы А. Ю. Макаровой рассказывается о путешествии археолога Д.-Л. Стефенса и художника Ф. Каэервуда, предпринятом ими в первой половине XIX века в Центральную Америку и на Юкатан — «страну индейцев майя» с целью найти и...
София: Народна култура, 1987. — 120 с. В книгата в превод на български език е представен "Попол Вух", основен извор за историята, религията и митологичните представи на майте.
Москва: Мысль, 1986. — 256 с.
Перевод с испанского Э. Г. Александренкова.
Книга директора всемирно известного Национального музея антропологии Альберто Руса Луилье "Народ майя", к сожалению, ставшая для него последней, - самая полная и всесторонняя работа по археологии, истории и этнографии индейцев майя на сегодняшний день. Автор использовал при ее написании не только...
М.: Мысль, 1986. - 338 с.
Книга прогрессивного мексиканского ученого-археолога содержит самый полный и всесторонний на сегодняшний день анализ цивилизации майя. Вместе с тем автор показывает жизнь и быт современных индейцев майя - потомков древнего народа, живущих ныне на территории Мексики, Гватемалы, Гондураса.
Книга хорошо иллюстрирована.
Для широкого круга читателей.
М.: Мысль, 1986. - 338 с.
Книга прогрессивного мексиканского ученого-археолога содержит самый полный и всесторонний на сегодняшний день анализ цивилизации майя. Вместе с тем автор показывает жизнь и быт современных индейцев майя - потомков древнего народа, живущих ныне на территории Мексики, Гватемалы, Гондураса.
Книга хорошо иллюстрирована.
Для широкого круга читателей.
М.: Прогресс, 1982. — 247 с.
Чешский исследователь и путешественник Милослав Стингл — автор многих книг, посвященных этнографии народов Америки и Тихого океана. Ряд его работ («Индейцы без томагавков». М. , 1971; «В горы к индейцам Кубы». М. , 1974, и др. ) переведены на русский язык и пользуются заслуженным успехом. Несомненно, заинтересует нашего читателя и новая книга М....
М.: Прогресс, 1982. — 126 с.
Чешский исследователь и путешественник Милослав Стингл - автор многих книг, посвященных этнографии народов Америки и Тихого океана. Книга Стингла была написана в 1967-1968 годах, главная задача, которую ставил перед собой автор "Тайн индейских пирамид", - это познакомить читателя с историей изучения культур ольмеков и майя.
Использовав в виде...
М.: Прогресс, 1982. — 126 с. Чешский исследователь и путешественник Милослав Стингл — автор многих книг, посвященных этнографии народов Америки и Тихого океана. Книга Стингла была написана в 1967-1968 годах, главная задача, которую ставил перед собой автор "Тайн индейских пирамид", - это познакомить читателя с историей изучения культур ольмеков и майя. Использовав в виде сюжетного...
М.: Прогресс, 1982. — 583 с. Чешский исследователь и путешественник Милослав Стингл — автор многих книг, посвященных этнографии народов Америки и Тихого океана. Книга Стингла была написана в 1967-1968 годах, главная задача, которую ставил перед собой автор "Тайн индейских пирамид", - это познакомить читателя с историей изучения культур ольмеков и майя. Использовав в виде...
Перевод Р. В. Кинжалова и Ю. В. Кнорозова. — СПб.: Амфора, 2000. — 352 c. — ISBN 5-8301-0184-Х. Вот старинные предания о тех, кто носит имя майя. Мы начнем с древних историй, с начала и происхождения всего того, что было совершено племенами этого народа. К моменту, когда конкистадоры Кортеса высадились на заросший пальмами берег, история индейцев майя насчитывала уже несколько...
Перевод Р. В. Кинжалова и Ю. В. Кнорозова. — СПб.: Амфора, 2000. — 352 c. — ISBN: 5-8301-0184-Х. Вот старинные предания о тех, кто носит имя майя. Мы начнем с древних историй, с начала и происхождения всего того, что было совершено племенами этого народа. К моменту, когда конкистадоры Кортеса высадились на заросший пальмами берег, история индейцев майя насчитывала уже несколько...
Киев: 2009.
Данная монография посвящена проблеме дешифровки иероглифической письменности доколумбовых майя. Читателю предлагаются тексты исторического содержания из города Паленке (древнее название – Лакам-Ха, "Великие Воды"), который благодаря своим памятникам архитектуры и пластики признан в 1987 г. ЮНЕСКО частью мирового культурного наследия, вызывает неизменный и...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2008. — 192 с.
В этой книге популярно и увлекательно рассказывается о зарождении, расцвете и крушении загадочной цивилизации майя. Вы узнаете о народе, который строил прекрасные города-государства и замечательно вел сельское хозяйство. В его религии огромную роль играла астрология и, благодаря этому обстоятельству, совершенствовались математика и астрономия....
М.: Центрполиграф, 2008. — 192 с.
В этой книге популярно и увлекательно рассказывается о зарождении, расцвете и крушении загадочной цивилизации майя. Вы узнаете о народе, который строил прекрасные города-государства и замечательно вел сельское хозяйство. В его религии огромную роль играла астрология и, благодаря этому обстоятельству, совершенствовались математика и астрономия....
Интернет-издание, 2023. — 45 с. С 1517 по 1546 год в Гватемале и Мексике шла жестокая и кровавая война испанских конкистадоров против государств цивилизации майя. В итоге захватчикам удалось сломить волю воинственного народа и утвердить свою власть над всеми землями майя, кроме окрестностей озера Петен-Ица в северной Гватемале. Обосновавшиеся здесь индейцы отчаянно...
Издательство молодежи, 1967. — 219 с.
В книге подробно и увлекательно рассказано о древнем легендарном народе Майя, в истории которого сказка перемешана с правдой.
Содержание:
«Кастила! Кастила!».
«Трапеция» майя.
Загадка заброшенных городов.
Новое царство «Пернатой Змеи».
«Благородная» птица кецаль.
Легенды о «божественной траве».
Иш Бакаль и Ах Пец Уйк.
Календарь:...
Издательство молодежи, 1967. — 220 с. В книге подробно и увлекательно рассказано о древнем легендарном народе Майя, в истории которого сказка перемешана с правдой. «Кастила! Кастила!». «Трапеция» майя. Загадка заброшенных городов. Новое царство «Пернатой Змеи». «Благородная» птица кецаль. Легенды о «божественной траве». Иш Бакаль и Ах Пец Уйк. Календарь: расчёты поразительной...
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