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  • El Perú-Waka’

    New Archaeological Perspectives on the Kingdom of the Centipede

    Collections series Maya and Mesoamerican Studies
    Recent research and discoveries at a prominent Maya rainforest cityThis volume presents the most current research on the ancient Maya city El Perú-Waka’, or “Kingdom of the Centipede.” Located in the Laguna del Tigre National Park of Guatemala, this city has been a major focus of recent archaeological inquiry, which has uncovered a long occupation at the site spanning from 300 BC to 1000 CE. The ... En savoir plus

    $93.59 CAD

  • Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare

    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, ... En savoir plus

    $72.99 CAD

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  • The First Maya Civilization

    Ritual and Power Before the Classic Period

    When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise of such famous cities as Palenque, Copan and Yaxchilan, Maya civilization was already nearly a millennium old. Its first cities, such as Nakbe and El Mirador, had some of the largest temples ever raised in ... En savoir plus

    $79.99 CAD

  • Ancient People of the Andes

    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 ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America

    An Encyclopedia

    Modifié par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $130.53 CAD

  • To Be Like Gods

    Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization

    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $59.99 CAD

  • Prehistory of South America

    Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $39.59 CAD

  • Pre-Columbian America

    Empires of the New World

    par Kathleen Kuiper ...
    Collections series Britannica Guide to Ancient Civilizations
    From the Mayan calendar to the Toltec architecture at Chichén Itzá, the bequests of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations have endured long after the societies that created them declined. The intellectual and cultural achievements of Pre-Columbian America rivaled those of ancient Rome and Egypt, and greatly enriched the landscape of present-day Mexico and Central America. The traditions, social ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Maya Political Science

    Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos

    Collections series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization, superordinate and subordinate status—with far-flung analogies to emerging states in Europe, ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

  • Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica

    Gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as "male" and "female." At the height of the Classic period, Maya rulers presented themselves as embodying the entire range of gender possibilities, from male ... En savoir plus

    $30.39 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology

    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $51.19 CAD