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  • Archaeology of Greater Nicoya

    Two Decades of Research in Nicaragua and Costa Rica

    Edited by Larry Steinbrenner, Alexander Geurds, Geoffrey G. McCafferty, Silvia Salgado ...
    The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya is the first edited volume in a quarter century to provide an overview of this fascinating archaeological subarea of Mesoamerica, encompassing Pacific Nicaragua and northwestern Costa Rica. Inhabited by diverse peoples of Mesoamerican origin centuries before Spanish colonization, Greater Nicoya remains controversial in the twenty-first century as scholars struggle ... Read more

    $106.99 CAD

  • Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare

    by James M. Ambrosino, Traci Ardren, George Bey, M Kathryn Brown, Arlen Chase, Diane Z. Chase, David Freidel, James F. Garber, Charles Golden, Annabeth Headrick, Arthur Joyce, Steven LeBlanc, Barbara MacLeod, Geoffrey McCafferty, Shirley Mock, Jonathon Pagliaro, F Kent Reilly, Payson Sheets, Charles Suhler ...
    The understanding of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica has blossomed in recent years. In this volume, the authors use recent empirical studies to help us understand the patterns and nature of Mesoamerican warfare. Using evidence from ceramics, settlement pattern, epigraphy, ethnohistory, and ethnography, these projects define the martial nature of Mesoamerican societies and link it to ritual, ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Ancient Queens

    Archaeological Explorations

    by Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh, Karen Bell, Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Katheryn Linduff, Geoffrey G, Sharrise D. McCafferty, Peggy Reeves Sanday, Lana Troy, Melissa A. Vogel ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    Exploding the traditional myth that view queens as simply an appendage to the king, these essays explore the social and cultural constructions of female power. This volume does more than merely identify and describe queens, but rather, offers its readers an understanding of the roles of these 'dominant women', situated within archaeological discourse that change our assumptions about female-ruled ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

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  • Ancient People of the Andes

    by Michael A. Malpass ...
    In Ancient People of the Andes**, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest**. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution. No South American culture that lived prior to the arrival of Europeans developed a writing ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America

    An Encyclopedia

    Edited by Susan Toby Evans, David Webster ...
    This is the first comprehensive, one-volume encyclopedia in English devoted to pre-Columbian archaeology of the Mesoamerican culture area. In more than 500 articles by the major experts in the field, this work brings the most recent scholarship to an examination of regional environments and their cultural evolution. Entries range from the familiar ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • Prehistory of South America

    Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent

    by Jerry D. Moore ...
    A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology.For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology

    by Deborah L. Nichols, Christopher A. Pool ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    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 ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

  • Patron Gods and Patron Lords

    The Semiotics of Classic Maya Community Cults

    by Joanne Baron ...
    In the first comprehensive treatment of Classic Maya patron deity veneration, Joanne P. Baron demonstrates the central importance of patron deity cults in political relationships between both rulers and their subjects and among different Maya kingdoms. Weaving together evidence from inscriptions, images, and artifacts, Patron Gods and Patron Lords provides new insights into how the Classic Maya ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru

    Edited by Elizabeth P. Benson, Anita G. Cook ...
    Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies, as in many premodern cultures. Ritual sacrifices were considered necessary for this propitiation and for maintaining a proper reciprocal relationship between humans and the supernatural world.The essays in this book examine the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Maya Figurines

    Intersections between State and Household

    by Christina T. Halperin ...
    Series series Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
    Rather than view the contours of Late Classic Maya social life solely from towering temple pyramids or elite sculptural forms, this book considers a suite of small anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and supernatural figurative remains excavated from household refuse deposits. Maya Figurines examines these often neglected objects and uses them to draw out relationships between the Maya state and its ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Myths and Realities of Caribbean History

    by Dr. Basil A. Reid ...
    Series series Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
    This book seeks to debunk eleven popular and prevalent myths about Caribbean history. Using archaeological evidence, it corrects many previous misconceptions promulgated by history books and oral tradition as they specifically relate to the pre-Colonial and European-contact periods. It informs popular audiences, as well as scholars, about the current state of archaeological/historical research in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Ancient Maya Women

    Edited by Traci Ardren ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    The flood of archaeological work in Maya lands has revolutionized our understanding of gender in ancient Maya society. The dozen contributors to this volume use a wide range of methodological strategies-archaeology, bioarchaeology, iconography, ethnohistory, epigraphy, ethnography-to tease out the details of the lives, actions, and identities of women of Mesoamerica. The chapters, most based upon ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD