Meso America
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The Aztec World [Paperback]
Elizabeth M Brumfiel (Author); Gary M. Feinman (Author)
Regular Price: $26.95
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ISBN: 9780810983090
The Aztec World is an illustrated survey of the Aztecs based on insightful research by a team of international experts from the United States and Mexico. In addition to traditional subjects like cosmology, religion, human sacrifice, and politic... .... Learn More -
Visiting the Calvario at Mitla, Oaxaca: a critical look at the continuity of a religious practice [Paperback]
William R Arfman (Author)
$64.00ISBN: 9789088900082
Published by : Sidestone Press
In the centre of the Mexican town of Mitla stands a run-down chapel on an overgrown pre-colonial pyramid. The chapel, housing three crosses, is the town's Calvario, the local representation of the hill on which Christ died. Although buses full ... .... Learn More -
Settlement Archaeology at Quirigua, Guatemala [Hardback]
Wendy Ashmore (Author)
Regular Price: $100.00
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ISBN: 9781931707916
Published by : Univ Pennsylvania Museum Pubs
This monograph reports the results of the Quiriguá Project Site Periphery Program, five seasons (1975-1979) of archaeological survey and excavation in the 96 km2 immediately adjoining the classic Maya site of Quiriguá. Ashmore identifies and he... .... Learn More -
Tikal Report 34: A Commentary on the Architecture of the North Acropolis, Tikal, Guatemala--Additions and Alterations [Hardback]
H. Stanley Loten (Author)
$59.95ISBN: 9781931707985
Published by : Univ Pennsylvania Museum Pubs
A comprehensive series of reconstructed views rendered in colors approximating the original finishes of polished plaster and paint, with 42 different stages of development in three-dimensional form, show what the Acropolis looked like at various t... .... Learn More -
Political Identity and Archaeology in Northeast Honduras [Hardback]
Thomas W. Cuddy (Author)
Regular Price: $55.00
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ISBN: 9780870818431
Published by : University of Colorado Press
In Political Identity and Archaeology in Northeast Honduras, Thomas Cuddy fills a substantial void in the scholarship on the origins of complex societies and the Central American political landscape, drawing on previously unexamined researc... .... Learn More -
Tenochtitlan: Digging for the Past [Hardback]
Leonardo Lopez Lujan (Author); Flora Levin (Author)
Regular Price: $22.95
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ISBN: 9780195178517
Published by : Oxford University Press
Buried beneath modern Mexico City lie the remnants of a nearly 700-year old city that the Spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes described as the most beautiful in the world. During the time of the Aztecs, Tenochtitlan was located in the middle of a s... .... Learn More -
The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820 [Hardback]
Joseph J. Rishel (Author)
Regular Price: $75.00
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ISBN: 9780300120035
Published by : Yale University Press
By the end of the 16th century, Europe, Africa, and Asia were connected to North and South America via a vast network of complex trade routes. This led, in turn, to dynamic cultural exchanges between these continents and a proliferation of dive... .... Learn More -
Turquoise Mosaics from Mexico [Paperback]
Colin McEwan (Author)
Regular Price: $23.95
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ISBN: 9780822339243
Published by : Duke University Press
The nine turquoise mosaics from Mexico are some the most striking pieces in the collections of the British Museum. Among the few surviving such artifacts, these exquisite objects include two masks, a shield, a knife, a helmet, a double-headed s... .... Learn More -
The Ancient Maya [Paperback]
Robert J. Sharer (Author)
$36.95ISBN: 9780804748179
Published by : Stanford Univ Press
The rich findings of recent exploration and research are incorporated in this completely revised and greatly expanded fifth edition of this standard work on the Maya people. New field discoveries, new technical advances, new successes in the d... .... Learn More -
Mujeres Latinoamericanas en Movimiento/Latin American Women as a Moving Force [Paperback]
Holmfridur Gardarsdottir (Author)
$45.00ISBN: 9789979547099
Published by : Iceland University Press
This is the fifth volume of essays on Latin American Women´s Studies published by HAINA (The Association of Nordic Researchers on Gender in Latin America). The volume addresses questions of social- and political science, literary criticism, rel... .... Learn More