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Great Maya Cities of Campeche
"The region of Campeche is ranked as one of the most important ecosystems in the world. It is part of the Maya Forest, which covers nearly three million hectares of northern Mexico, where countless archaeological remains have been found and has a great diversity of plants and animals. Half of the region is protected and decreed a Biosphere Reserve. This book is a tribute to the scholar, teacher and friend Román Piña Chán, who was a teacher who devoted his life to archeology under the premise that the archaeological finds are worthless if they are not transmitted to society. It is a compilation of the research that his students and collaborators have collected over these thirty years. It includes the essays of Antonio Benavides Castillo, Omar Rodríguez Campero, Ernesto Vargas Pacheco, Ramon Carrasco Vargas, Luz Evelia Campaign Valenzuela, Dominique Michelet and Carlos A. Vidal Angles, among others. Extensively documented with color photographs, tables, maps and texts illustrating the prolific research conducted by Román Piña Chan on the vast state of the Campeche region."--
The Olmec
A survey of the Olmec culture and people which flourished in Mesoamerica's Formative, or Preclassical, period--from 2,000 B.C. to A.D. 100.
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.
New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society
This book examines Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. The editors bring together an international group of contributors from the area studied: archaeologists as well as anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, art historians and bioarchaeologists. This interdisciplinary approach provides a comprehensive perspective on these sites as well as the material culture and biological evidence found there
Maya Postclassic State Formation
John Fox here offers a fresh and persuasive view of the crucial Classic-Postclassic transition that determined the shape of the later Maya state. Drawing this data from ethnographic analogy and native chronicles as well as archaeology, he identifies segmentary lineage organisation as the key to understanding both the political organisation and the long-distance migrations observed among the Quiche Maya of Guatemala and Mexico. The first part of the book traces the origins of the Quiche, Itza and Xiu to the homeland on the Mexican Gulf coast where they acquired their potent Toltec mythology and identifies early segmentary lineages that developed as a result of social forces in the frontier zone. Dr Fox then matches the known anthropological characteristics of segmentary lineages against the Mayan kinship relationships described in documents and deduced from the spatial patterning within Quiche towns and cities. His conclusion, that the inherently fissile nature of segmentary lineages caused the leapfrogging migrations of up to 500km observed amongst the Maya, offers a convincing solution to a problem that has long puzzled scholars.
A Different Reality
This anthology of materials by and about Elena Garro includes translations of two of her one-act plays and several essays that explore her theatrical and narrative pieces. Also presented are a personal interview and a chronology of her life by her own account.
Stone Trees Transplanted? Central Mexican Stelae of the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic and the Question of Maya ‘Influence’
Stelae dating to the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic from Tula, Xochicalco, and other sites in Central Mexico have been cited as evidence of Classic Maya `influence' on Central Mexican art during these periods. This book re-evaluates these claims via detailed comparative analysis of the Central Mexican stelae and their claimed Maya counterparts.
Research Reports - National Geographic Society
Abstracts and reviews of research and exploration authorized under grants from the National Geographic Society.
