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  • Vital Signs

    The Visual Culture of Maya Writing

    par Stephen Houston ...
    How scribes of the ancient Maya pictured sound and meaning through inventive hieroglyphic writing that pulsed with vitality and witFor two millennia, the ancestral Maya of Mexico and Central America created a rich legacy of image and text. Vital Signs explains how this graphic system worked, shedding new light on its design, intent, and authorship.One of the few peoples of the ancient world with ... En savoir plus

    $74.99 CAD

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  • The Maya

    The definitive history of the Maya, fully updated with the latest archaeological studies and featuring full-color illustrations.The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya by experts Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston. In this new edition, this classic has been updated by distilling the latest scholarship for the general reader and student.This ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Re-Presenting the Past

    Archaeology through Text and Image

    Modifié par Sheila Bonde, Stephen Houston ...
    Collections Livre 2 - Joukowsky Institute Publication
    The archaeological past exists for us through intermediaries. Some are written works, descriptions, narratives and field notes, while others are visual: the drawings, paintings, photographs, powerpoints or computer visualizations that allow us to re-present past forms of human existence. This volume brings together nine papers, six of which were presented at a symposium hosted at Brown University. ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Inconstant Landscape

    The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala

    Presenting the results of six years of archaeological survey and excavation in and around the Maya kingdom of El Zotz, An Inconstant Landscape paints a complex picture of a dynamic landscape over the course of almost 2,000 years of occupation. El Zotz was a dynastic seat of the Classic period in Guatemala. Located between the renowned sites of Tikal and El Perú-Waka’, it existed as a small kingdom ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Title of Totonicapán

    par Stephen Houston ...
    This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K’iche’ Maya in the highlands of Guatemala, second only to the Popol Vuh. The original document was completed in 1554, only a few decades after the Spanish Conquest of the K’iche’ people in 1524. This volume contains a wholly new translation from the ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Hidden Language of Graphic Signs

    Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks

    Modifié par John Bodel, Stephen Houston ...
    A common belief is that systems of writing are committed to transparency and precise records of sound. The target is the language behind such marks. Readers, not viewers, matter most, and the most effective graphs largely record sound, not meaning. But what if embellishments mattered deeply - if hidden writing, slow to produce, slow to read, played as enduring a role as more accessible graphs? ... En savoir plus

    $122.99 CAD

  • The Gifted Passage

    Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text

    par Stephen Houston ...
    In this thought-provoking book, preeminent scholar Stephen Houston turns his attention to the crucial role of young males in Classic Maya society, drawing on evidence from art, writing, and material culture. The Gifted Passage establishes that adolescent men in Maya art were the subjects and makers of hieroglyphics, painted ceramics, and murals, in works that helped to shape and reflect ... En savoir plus

    $76.99 CAD

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    The Maya

    Ninth Edition

    Version Longue

    10 heure 11 min

    The Maya has long been established as the best, most accessible introduction to the New World's greatest ancient civilization. Coe and Houston update this classic by distilling the latest scholarship for the general listener and student.This new edition incorporates the most recent archaeological and epigraphic research, which continues to proceed at a fast pace. Among the finest new discoveries ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

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    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 ... En savoir plus

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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

  • 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

  • Mesoamerican Archaeology

    Theory and Practice

    Collections series Wiley Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology
    A unique and wide-ranging introduction to the major prehispanic and colonial societies of Mexico and Central America, featuring new and revised material throughoutMesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, provides readers with a diverse and well-balanced view of the archaeology of the indigenous societies of Mexico and Central America, helping students better understand key ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD