Author: Richard E. W. AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Rio Azul Project Reports, Number 1, Final 1983 Report
Author: Richard E. W. AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Río Azul
Author: Richard E. W. AdamsPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806130767
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Deep within the forest in northern Guatemala lie the ruins of Río Azul, a Maya city that reached one-third the size of Tikal. Discovered and partially explored in the early 1960s, Río Azul and the surrounding region were more fully investigated between 1983 and 1987 by an archaeological team led by Richard E. W. Adams. In this summary, Adams integrates the findings of field archaeologists with those of the epigraphers and art historians to recreate the life of this Maya city from the little-known Early Classic period. Remains in the Río Azul area date from 900 B.C. to A.D. 850. The data indicate that, unlike most Maya cities that have been studied, Río Azul was a frontier town, an administrative center, with alternating defense and trade outpost functions. About A.D. 385, the Río Azul region was conquered and the city founded by Tikal, serving as a Teotihuacan-linked garrison for that capital. Nearly all of the more than seven hundred structures found within Río Azul were erected between A.D. 390 and 530. Acres of pavement were laid down around some thirty complexes of residences, temples, and tombs notable for the brightly painted red hieroglyphs and murals on their walls. The elaborate complexes and sumptuous artifacts suggest a city with a heavy proportion of aristocratic families and retainers. Around A.D. 530, Río Azul appears to have been suddenly destroyed. The city was abandoned, then reoccupied--only to stagnate and finally collapse, like many other Classic Maya cities, in the late ninth century.
Rio Azul Reports, Number 3, the 1985 Season
Author: Richard E. W. AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Rio Azul Reports, Number Five, the 1987 Season
Author: Richard E. W. AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Death and the Classic Maya Kings
Author: James L. FitzsimmonsPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292781989
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
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 decipherment of inscriptions that record Maya rulers' funerary rites, have opened a fascinating window on how the ancient Maya envisaged the ruler's passage from the world of the living to the realm of the ancestors. Focusing on the Classic Period (AD 250-900), James Fitzsimmons examines and compares textual and archaeological evidence for rites of death and burial in the Maya lowlands, from which he creates models of royal Maya funerary behavior. Exploring ancient Maya attitudes toward death expressed at well-known sites such as Tikal, Guatemala, and Copan, Honduras, as well as less-explored archaeological locations, Fitzsimmons reconstructs royal mortuary rites and expands our understanding of key Maya concepts including the afterlife and ancestor veneration.
Rio Azul Reports, Number 4, the 1986 Season
Author: Richard E. W. AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya
Author: Vernon L. ScarboroughPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816522736
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"In recent years the Three Rivers region of Belize and Guatemala has been the site of some of the most intensive archaeological research in the Maya Lowlands, providing a wealth of regional data. This volume brings together articles reporting on findings and interpretations of the Programme for Belize Archaeological Project that range over a 10- to 12-year period and that shed new light on how ecology, economy, and political order developed in the ancient past.".
Pathways to Prismatic Blades
Author: Bradford AndrewsPublisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN: 193877079X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
This volume explores the social and economic processes involved in the manufacture of obsidian prismatic blades, one of the sharpest cutting instruments ever produced in the prehistoric world. Focusing on ancient Mesoamerica, contributors examine the variation in the way the blades were manufactured and the causes behind their variation.
Understanding Maya Inscriptions
Author: John F. HarrisPublisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN: 9780924171413
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This second edition includes revised and updated versions of three earlier publications: Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook; New and Recent Maya Hieroglyph Readings; and A Resource Bibliography for the Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphs and New Maya Hieroglyph Readings. This volume is designed to function as a self-teaching tool to help the neophyte, and yet be of value to scholars. It introduces the latest methods of analysis, illustrates techniques for computing Maya calendrics, uses the currently accepted orthography, provides syllabary and syntax, suggests new glyph readings, and presents various interpretations.
Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies
Author: Benson Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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