Handbook To Life In The Ancient Maya World

Author : Lynn V. Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195183634
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World written by Lynn V. Foster and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and accessible reference explores the greatest and most mysterious of civilizations, hailed for its contributions to science, mathematics, and technology. Each chapter is supplemented by an extensive bibliography as well as photos, original line drawings, and maps.

Author : Lynn V. Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197713648
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World written by Lynn V. Foster and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a presentation of research on all aspects of Maya civilisation, from its earliest beginnings to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century.

Author : John S. Henderson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801482847
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of the Ancient Maya written by John S. Henderson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theirs was one of the few complex societies to emerge in and to adapt successfully to a tropical-forest environment. Their architecture, sculpture, and painting were sophisticated and compellingly beautiful.

Author : Jennifer Fretland VanVoorst
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0756545641
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Maya written by Jennifer Fretland VanVoorst and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the Ancient Mayan civilization, including their religious views, intellectual achievements, and everyday life.

Author : Scott R. Hutson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351029568
Total Pages : 983 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maya World written by Scott R. Hutson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maya World brings together over 60 authors, representing the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and ethnography, who explore cutting-edge research on every major facet of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world. The Maya world, which covers Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador, contains over a hundred ancient sites that are open to tourism, eight of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and many thousands more that have been dug or await investigation. In addition to captivating the lay public, the ancient Maya have attracted scores of major interdisciplinary research expeditions and hundreds of smaller projects going back to the 19th century, making them one of the best-known ancient cultures. The Maya World explores their renowned writing system, towering stone pyramids, exquisitely painted murals, and elaborate funerary tombs as well as their creative agricultural strategies, complex social, economic, and political relationships, widespread interactions with other societies, and remarkable cultural resilience in the face of historical ruptures. This is an invaluable reference volume for scholars of the ancient Maya, including archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists.

Author : Geoff Stray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802716342
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars written by Geoff Stray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only small, popular book on the important subject of ancient calendars. The study of heavenly cycles is common to most ancient cultures. The ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Babylonians all tried to make sense of the year. But it fell to the later Mesoamerican Maya to create a series of calendars that could be cross referenced. In doing so, the Maya discovered many strange numerical harmonics. Their lunar calendar was extremely accurate-far more so than the Greek Metonic cycle; they tracked Venus to an accuracy of less than a day in five hundred years and their tables could have been used to predict eclipses seven hundred years in the future. This book will provide a much needed compact guide to the Mayan calendar systems as well as covering the essentials of calendar development throughout the world.

Author : Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195330838
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook to Life in the Aztec World written by Manuel Aguilar-Moreno and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.

Author : Sylvanus Griswold Morley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804721301
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Maya written by Sylvanus Griswold Morley and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comprehensive synthesis of ancient Maya scholarship. Extensive summary of the archaeology of the Maya world provides the historical context for a detailed topical synthesis of chronological and geographic variability within the Maya cultural tradition"--

Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804765006
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maya World written by Matthew Restall and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pathbreaking work is a social and cultural history of the Maya peoples of the province of Yucatan in colonial Mexico, spanning the period from shortly after the Spanish conquest of the region to its incorporation as part of an independent Mexico. Instead of depending on the Spanish sources and perspectives that have formed the basis of previous scholarship on colonial Yucatan, the author aims to give a voice to the Maya themselves, basing his analysis entirely on his translations of hundreds of Yucatec Maya notarial documents—from libraries and archives in Mexico, Spain, and the United States—most of which have never before received scholarly attention. These documents allow the author to reconstruct the social and cultural world of the Maya municipality, or cah, the self-governing community where most Mayas lived and which was the focus of Maya social and political identity. The first two parts of the book examine the ways in which Mayas were organized and differentiated from each other within the community, and the discussion covers such topics as individual and group identities, sociopolitical organization, political factionalism, career patterns, class structures, household and family patterns, inheritance, gender roles, sexuality, and religion. The third part explores the material environment of the cah, emphasizing the role played by the use and exchange of land, while the fourth part describes in detail the nature and significance of the source documentation, its genres and its language. Throughout the book, the author pays attention to the comparative contexts of changes over time and the similarities or differences between Maya patterns and those of other colonial-era Mesoamericans, notably the Nahuas of central Mexico.

Author : Vera Tiesler
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816537313
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Janaab' Pakal of Palenque written by Vera Tiesler and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavations of Maya burial vaults at Palenque, Mexico, half a century ago revealed what was then the most extraordinary tomb finding of the pre-Columbian world; its discovery has been crucial to an understanding of the dynastic history and ideology of the ancient Maya. This volume communicates the broad scope of applied interdisciplinary research conducted on the Pakal remains to provide answers to old disputes over the accuracy of both skeletal and epigraphic studies, along with new questions in the field of Maya dynastic research. A benchmark in biological anthropology that presents an updated study of a well-known personage, the volume also offers innovative approaches to the biocultural and interdisciplinary re-creation of Maya dynastic history.