Author: T. Patrick CulbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chiapanec Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Ceramic History of the Central Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico
Author: T. Patrick CulbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chiapanec Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Ceramic history of the central highlands of chiapas, mexico
Author: T. Patrick CulbertThe Ceramic History of Santa Rosa, Chiapas, Mexico
Author: Donald Leslie BrockingtonPublisher: Provo, Utah : New World Archaeological Foundation, Brigham Young University
ISBN:
Category : Indian pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology
Author: Deborah L. NicholsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195390938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, this Handbook also includes coverage of important new work by archaeologists on the Colonial and Republican periods. Unique among recent works, the text brings together in a single volume article-length regional syntheses and topical overviews written by active scholars in the field of Mesoamerican archaeology. The first section of the Handbook provides an overview of recent history and trends of Mesoamerica and articles on national archaeology programs and practice in Central America and Mexico written by archaeologists from these countries. These are followed regional syntheses organized by time period, beginning with early hunter-gatherer societies and the first farmers of Mesoamerica and concluding with a discussion of the Spanish Conquest and frontiers and peripheries of Mesoamerica. Topical and comparative articles comprise the remainder of Handbook. They cover important dimensions of prehispanic societies—from ecology, economy, and environment to social and political relations—and discuss significant methodological contributions, such as geo-chemical source studies, as well as new theories and diverse theoretical perspectives. The Handbook concludes with a section on the archaeology of the Spanish conquest and the Colonial and Republican periods to connect the prehispanic, proto-historic, and historic periods. This volume will be a must-read for students and professional archaeologists, as well as other scholars including historians, art historians, geographers, and ethnographers with an interest in Mesoamerica.
The Archaeological Ceramics of Chinkultic, Chiapas, Mexico
Author: Joseph W. BallPublisher: Provo, Utah : New World Archaeological Foundation, Brigham Young University
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology Mexico Chinkultic
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Prehistoric Mesoamerica
Author: Richard E. W. AdamsPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806137025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
An up-to-date overview of Mesoamerican cultures from early prehistoric times through the fall of the Aztec Empire, Prehistoric Mesoamerica, Third Edition will be useful and appealing to readers interested in Mesoamerican art, society, politics, and intellectual achievement.
Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon
Author: Brant A. GardnerPublisher: Greg Kofford Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
Stop looking for the Book of Mormon in Mesoamerica and start looking for Mesoamerica in the Book of Mormon! Second Witness, a new six-volume series from Greg Kofford Books, takes a detailed, verse-by-verse look at the Book of Mormon. It marshals the best of modern scholarship and new insights into a consistent picture of the Book of Mormon as a historical document. Taking a faithful but scholarly approach to the text and reading it through the insights of linguistics, anthropology, and ethnohistory, the commentary approaches the text from a variety of perspectives: how it was created, how it relates to history and culture, and what religious insights it provides. The commentary accepts the best modern scholarship, which focuses on a particular region of Mesoamerica as the most plausible location for the Book of Mormon’s setting. For the first time, that location—its peoples, cultures, and historical trends—are used as the backdrop for reading the text. The historical background is not presented as proof, but rather as an explanatory context. The commentary does not forget Mormon’s purpose in writing. It discusses the doctrinal and theological aspects of the text and highlights the way in which Mormon created it to meet his goal of “convincing . . . the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God.”
Ancient Maya Commoners
Author: Jon C. LohsePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292778147
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
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 to build the temple complexes and palaces and grew the food that fed all of Maya society? This pathfinding book marshals a wide array of archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic evidence to offer the fullest understanding to date of the lifeways of ancient Maya commoners. Senior and emerging scholars contribute case studies that examine such aspects of commoner life as settlement patterns, household organization, and subsistence practices. Their reports cover most of the Maya area and the entire time span from Preclassic to Postclassic. This broad range of data helps resolve Maya commoners from a faceless mass into individual actors who successfully adapted to their social environment and who also held primary responsibility for producing the food and many other goods on which the whole Maya society depended.
Pottery Ethnoarchaeology in the Central Maya Highlands
Author: Michael DealPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Draws upon both archaeological and ethnographic techniques to study prehistoric cultural change, village ethnoarchaeology focuses on a range of archaeological problems at the village or household level-including the important socioeconomic role of specific craft activities. In this context, recent studies of contemporary pottery making-follow trends in ethnoarchaeology involving model building, formation processes, and evaluation and refinement of existing archaeological recovery techniques.
Archaeology of the Rivas Region, Nicaragua
Author: Paul HealyPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889207844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Central America before the Spanish Conquest has often been considered by North American archaeologists as a “backwater” of peripheral importance located between the advanced ancient civilizations of South America and Mesoamerica (Mexican–Maya country). Recent archaeological research has revealed that this area played a much more significant role in New World cultural history than was previously thought. Healy’s study examines the archaeological record of one subarea of Southern Central America, the Rivas region of Pacific Nicaragua. The work gives a detailed analysis of excavations and of artifacts recovered at seven significant prehistoric sites. A critical pioneering effort, the monograph documents cultural changes occurring over a 2,000–year time period—changes in technology, material culture, settlement, subsistence, and socio–political organization.