Author: Pierre AgrinierPublisher: Provo, Utah : New World Archaeological Foundation, Brigham Young University
ISBN:
Category : Chiapas (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A Sacrificial Mass Burial at Miramar, Chiapas, Mexico
Author: Pierre AgrinierPublisher: Provo, Utah : New World Archaeological Foundation, Brigham Young University
ISBN:
Category : Chiapas (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A Sacrifical Mass Burial at Miramar, Chiapas, México
Author: Pierre AgrinierThe Lowland Maya Postclassic
Author: Arlen F. ChasePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477302603
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.
The Bioarchaeology of Space and Place
Author: Gabriel D. WrobelPublisher: Springer Science & Business
ISBN: 1493904795
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The Bioarchaeology of Space and Place investigates variations in social identity among the ancient Maya by focusing on individuals and small groups identified archaeologically by their inclusion in specific, discrete mortuary contexts or by unusual mortuary treatments. Utilizing archaeological, biological and taphonomic data from these contexts, the studies employ a variety of methodological approaches to reconstruct aspects of individuals’ life-course and mortuary pathways. Following this, specific mortuary behaviors are discussed in relation to their local or regional cultural setting using relevant archaeological, ethnohistoric, and/or ethnographic data in an effort to interpret their meaning within the broader social, political and economic contexts in which they were carried out. This volume covers a number of topics that are currently being debated in Maya archaeology, including identification and discussion of the role and extent of human sacrifice in Maya culture, the use of ancestors for maintaining political power, the mortuary use of caves by both elites and non-elites, ethnic distinctions within urban areas and the extent of movement of people between communities. Importantly, the papers in this volume attempt to test and move beyond static, dichotic categories that are often employed in mortuary studies in an effort to better understand the complex ways in which the Maya conceptualized and manipulated social identity. This type of nuanced case-study approach that incorporates historical, archaeological and theoretical contextualization is becoming increasingly important in the field of bioarchaeology, providing valuable sources of data where small, diverse samples impede populational approaches.
Peace Studies
Author: Matthew EvangelistaPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415339230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The academic field of Peace Studies emerged during the Cold War to address the nature and sources of interstate and internal conflict and methods to prevent it and deal with its consequences.
Prehistoric Cannibalism at Mancos 5MTUMR-2346
Author: Tim D. WhitePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400852927
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Cannibalism is one of the oldest and most emotionally charged topics in anthropological literature. Tim White's analysis of human bones from an Anasazi pueblo in southwestern Colorado, site 5MTUMR-2346, reveals that nearly thirty men, women, and children were butchered and cooked there around A.D. 1100. Their bones were fractured for marrow, and the remains discarded in several rooms of the pueblo. By comparing the human skeletal remains with those of animals used for food at other sites, the author analyzes evidence for skinning, dismembering, cooking, and fracturing to infer that cannibalism took place at Mancos. As White evaluates claims for cannibalism in ethnographic and archaeological contexts worldwide, he describes how cultural biases can often distort the interpretation of scientific data. This book applies and introduces anatomical, taphonomic, zooarchaeological, and forensic methods in the investigation of prehistoric human behavior. It is an important example of how we can exchange opinion for knowledge. "Cannibalism is a controversial topic because many people do not want to believe that their prehistoric ancestors engaged in such activity, but they will be hard put to reject this meticulous study."--Kent V. Flannery, University of Michigan "This is the best piece of detailed research yet to appear that seeks to put in place a body of justified knowledge and a procedure for its use in making inferences about the past. No student of bones can ignore this work."--Lewis R. Binford, University of New Mexico "This could be one of the most important books in archaeology written in the last decade."--James F. O'Connell, University of Utah "Paleontologists and zooarchaeologists, archaeologists and physical anthropologists, taphonomists, and forensic scientists should all read this work. Quite frankly, I think this will become one of the most important books of the 1990s..."--R. Lee Lyman, University of Missouri-Columbia Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Toward a Theory of Peace
Author: Randall Caroline Watson ForsbergPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501744372
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Military analyst, peace activist, teacher, and social theorist Randall Caroline Watson Forsberg (1943–2007) founded the Nuclear Freeze campaign and the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies. In Toward a Theory of Peace, completed in 1997 and published for the first time here, she delves into a vast literature in psychology, anthropology, archeology, sociology, and history to examine the ways in which changing moral beliefs came to stigmatize forms of "socially sanctioned violence" such as human sacrifice, cannibalism, and slavery, eventually rendering them unacceptable. Could the same process work for war? Edited and with an introduction by political scientists Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University) and Neta C. Crawford (Boston University), both of whom worked with Forsberg.
Mound 27 and the Middle Preclassic Period at Mirador, Chiapas, Mexico
Author: Pierre AgrinierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chiapas (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Ibss: Anthropology: 1978
Author: International Committee for Social Science Information and DocumentationPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780422809306
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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