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  • Heart of Creation

    The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele

    de Andrea Stone, Marc Zender, Barbara MacLeod, David B. Kelley, Federico Fahsen, Nikolai Grube, Elin C. Danien, Duncan Earle, David M. Schele, David A. Freidel0, Mary Miller1, Gillett Griffin2, Dorie Reents-Budet3, Anthony Aveni4, Merle Greene Robertson5, Susan Milbrath6, Elizabeth P. Benson7, Michael D. Coe8, Julia Guernsey Kappelman9, Rex Koontz0, Annabeth Headrick1, Constance Cortez2, Kathryn Reese-Taylor3, Frank Kent Reilly III4, Matthew G. Looper5 ...
    This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers.The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or coauthor of more than 200 books or articles on the Maya, Schele served as the chief disseminator of ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Lightning Warrior

    Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua

    de Matthew G. Looper ...
    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    The ancient Maya city of Quirigua occupied a crossroads between Copan in the southeastern Maya highlands and the major centers of the Peten heartland. Though always a relatively small city, Quirigua stands out because of its public monuments, which were some of the greatest achievements of Classic Maya civilization. Impressive not only for their colossal size, high sculptural quality, and eloquent ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • The Beast Between

    Deer in Maya Art and Culture

    de Matthew G. Looper ...
    The first book to focus on the multifaceted images of deer and hunting in ancient Maya art, from the award-winning author of To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization.Winner, CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019The white-tailed deer had a prominent status in Maya civilization: it was the most important wild-animal food source at many inland Maya sites and also functioned as a major ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • To Be Like Gods

    Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization

    de Matthew G. Looper ...
    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    Winner, Association for Latin American Art Book Award, 2010The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance in Maya royal courts through an ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

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  • Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs

    From the Olmecs to the Aztecs

    de Michael D. Coe, Rex Koontz ...
    “Masterly. . . . The complexities of Mexico’s ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.” —Library JournalMichael D. Coe’s Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region’s ancient civilizations. This companion to his best-selling The Maya has now been revised by Professor Coe and Rex Koontz.The seventh edition incorporates new ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Atlantis and Other Lost Worlds

    de Frank Joseph ...
    Atlantis and Other Lost Worlds is the most up-to-date and comprehensive investigation of history's infamous sunken city. Nowhere else will you find a more dramatic and convincing presentation of the evidence for its archaeological reality. The book uncovers the scientific genius of the ancients and the spiritual power of their mysterious religion. They are revealed as the inventors of a crystal ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Maya Gods of War

    de Karen Bassie-Sweet ...
    Numerous archaeological projects have found substantial evidence of the military nature of Maya society, and warfare is a frequent theme of Maya art. Maya Gods of War investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made.Author Karen Bassie-Sweet traces the semantic markers used to distinguish flint from ... Leer más

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  • Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica

    Edición de Joshua Englehardt, Michael D. Carrasco ...
    Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary contributions from leading scholars investigate linguistic exchange and borrowing, scribal practices, settlement patterns, ceramics, iconography, and trade systems, presenting a variety of ... Leer más

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  • Ancient Technology in Peru and Bolivia

    de David Hatcher Childress ...
    David Hatcher Childress, popular Lost Cities author and star of the History Channels long-running show Ancient Aliens, takes us to the mysterious ruins in the mountains of Peru and Bolivia in search of ancient technology and the secrets of megalith building. In his new book, packed with photos and diagrams, Childress examines the amazing stonecutting at Puma Punku, a site neighboring the ancient ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Order of Days

    The Maya World and the Truth About 2012

    de David Stuart ...
    The world's foremost expert on Maya culture looks at 2012 hysteria and explains the truth about what the Maya meant and what we want to believe.Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilizations End. The World Cataclysm in 2012. 2012: The return of Quetzalcoatl. According to many of these alarmingly titled books, the ancient Maya not only had a keen insight into the mystical workings of our ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Voyages of the Pyramid Builders

    de Robert M. Schoch ...
    Is it a mere coincidence that pyramids are found throughout our globe? Did cultures ranging across vast spaces in geography and time, such as the ancient Egyptians; early Bud-dhists; the Maya, Inca, Toltec, and Aztec civilizations of the Americas; the Celts of the British Isles; and even the Mississippi Indians of pre-Columbus Illinois, simply dream the same dreams and envision the same structures ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Breaking the Maya Code

    de Michael D. Coe ...
    The inside story of one of the great intellectual breakthroughs of our time—the first great decipherment of an ancient script—now revised and updated.In the past dozen years, Maya decipherment has made great strides, in part due to the Internet, which has made possible the truly international scope of hieroglyphic scholarship: glyphic experts can be found not only in North America, Mexico, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD