A scholarly, quality stock volume on aspects of Mesoamerican culture and history. Consists of eleven articles, chronology and bibliography, including themes of languages, political history, Mayan political life, urban centers, religion, art and science.
A scholarly, quality stock volume on aspects of Mesoamerican culture and history. Consists of eleven articles, chronology and bibliography, including themes of languages, political history, Mayan political life, urban centers, religion, art and science.
In this remarkably researched fourth volume of "The Earth Chronicles," author and explorer Zecharia Sitchin uncovers the long-hidden secrets of the lost New World civilizations of the Olmecs, Aztecs, Mayas and Incas, and links the conquistadors' quest for El Dorado to the extrat…
Traces the rise and fall of Maya civilization through its great royal cities, from El Mirador, the largest and oldest, to the rival city-states of the Classical period such as Tikal, Calakmul, Yaxchilán, Palenque, Toniná, and Copán. He then moves on to the great cities of the Te…
Con este libro, pone al alcance de los dibujantes, de los arqueólogos y del público en general un valioso estudio técnico para la buena ilustración y publicación de las investigaciones arqueológicas en lo referente a las vasijas cerámicas. Dice Claude E Baudez: "Nadie hubiese po…
"The ancient Maya created one of the most studied and best-known civilizations of the Americas. Nevertheless, Maya civilization is often considered either within a vacuum, by sub-region and according to modern political borders, or with reference to the most important urban civi…
"Mary Miller vividly takes the reader into the art of one of the world's most enigmatic ancient civilizations. From temple to tomb, she explains how and why the Maya made their greatest works and how the modern-day viewer might come to understand them. New archaeological discove…
Miller takes the reader into the art of one of the world's most enigmatic ancient civilizations. From temple to tomb, she explains how and why the Maya made their greatest works. New discoveries at Copán, Tikal, and Palenque--to name but a few--are included, and the author draws…
"In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic "collapses," including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750), were caused not solely …
