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Mesoamerica

The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings
by David Drew
This book forms a good account of the background to the discovery of the Maya by early explorers, the origins of the Maya people and culture, and their development. David Drew discusses all the topics you would expect: religion, warfare, cities and architecture, politics, art, and recent research and new discoveries. Highly readable and with good coverage of the subject. Unlike many other books on the subject, this one relies more on the ...
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The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society 1550-1850
by Matthew Restall
This path-breaking work is a social and cultural history of the Maya peoples of the province of Yucatan, from the Spanish conquest of the region to its incorporation as part of independent Mexico. Throughout the author compares the Maya with other colonial-era Mesoamericans, notably the Nahuas of central Mexico. 441p, 1 fig, 5 maps (CUP 1999)
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Maya Ceremonial Specialization
by April Kay Sievert
Highly visible architecture, sculpture and painting meant Maya religion was the focus for much early research and speculation on Mayan civilization. Subtitled `Lithic Tools from the Sacred Cenote at Chichén Itzá, Yucatán' this study evaluates postclassic Maya ceremonialism and addresses three problems in Maya archaeology: assumptions concerning Maya ritual assemblages; the characteristics denoting ceremonial artifacts; the linking ...
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Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America
edited by Heather Orr and Rex Koontz
Blood and Beauty brings together a diverse, prestigious group of contributors to debate this charged topic in an open, critical and frank interchange. Authors specializing in the anthropology, archaeology, art history, and linguistics of Mesoamerica and Central America bring new data and interpretive strategies to bear on the nature of institutional violence in these ancient societies. The volume covers a broad time frame, from circa 1200 ...
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Settlement and Subsistence in Early Formative Soconusco: El Varal and the Problem of Inter-Site Assemblage Variation
edited by Richard G. Lesure
This volume volume sets archaeological excavations at a special-propose estuary site in coastal Chiapas, Mexico, into the larger anthropological context of the origins of agriculture and sedentary life in ancient Mesoamerica. The site of El Varal is located in the Soconusco region, a narrow strip of the Pacific coast of Chiapas and neighboring Guatemala that is sharply defined inland by the rise of the Sierra Madre escarpment. The diverse biotic ...
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Settlement, Subsistence and Social Complexity
edited by Richard E Blanton
This publication sees a number of leading scholars taking an in-depth look at settlement patterns in the ancient Americas. Contents: Introduction; Regional Survey at Vijayanagara, South Asia: New World Methodologies in Old World Urban Contexts; Settlement Pattern Archaeology in the Teotihuacan Valley and the Northeastern Basin of Mexico A.P.; Opting In and Opting Out: Tula, Cholula and Xaltocan; The Tunanmarca Polity of Highland Peru and its ...
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K'axob: Ritual, Work and Family in an Ancient Maya Village
by Patricia McAnany
Shortly after 800 B.C., a village was founded in the wetland and riverine habitat of northern Belize. Now called K'axob, this Maya community grew and prospered through Formative and Classic times. A millennial-long record of Formative life has been investigated archaeologically by peeling back the closely stratified layers of superimposed domiciles. These houses, their domestic and mortuary features, and associated artifacts reveal a conscious ...
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Ancient Oaxaca
by Richard E. Blanton, Gary M. Feinman, Stephen A. Kowalewski and Linda M. Nicholas
Some 2,500 years ago, the first state developed in the Oaxaca Valley, modern day southern Mexico. It was centred around the site of Monte Albán and led to significant changes in social, political, cultural and ritual terms. This book discusses how and why this happened. Based on evidence from excavations and regional settlement patterns derived from archaeological surveys, the authors draw this information together to form a 'succinct ...
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Excavations at Altun Ha, Belize, 1964-1970, Volume 1
by David M. Pendergast
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Excavations at Altun Ha, Belize, 1964-1970, Volume 2
by David M. Pendergast
^BExcavations at Altun Ha, Belize, 1964-1970, Volume 2
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