The Copan Sculpture Museum(Updated) Ancient Maya Artistry in Stucco and Stone (Peabody Museum) by BarbaraW. Fash Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2011 by Peabody Museum Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87365-858-4, ISBN: 0-87365-858-2
" The Copan Sculpture Museum in western Honduras features the extraordinary stone carvings of the ancient Maya city known as Copan. The city's sculptors produced some of the finest and most animated buildings and temples in the Maya area, in addition to stunning monolithic statues and altars. The ruins of Copan were named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1980, and more than 150,000 national and international tourists visit the ancient cit ..."
"Zuni, Hopi, Copan publishes one hundred annotated letters from John Gundy Owens--one of the first graduate students in anthropology at Harvard--to Deborah Harker Stratton."
"The goal of this unique series of folio volumes is to document in photographs and detailed line drawings all known Maya inscriptions and their associated figurative art."
Scribes, Warriors and Kings(1st Edition) The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya (New Aspects of Antiquity) by William Leonard Fash, BarbaraW. Fash Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1991 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-39028-3, ISBN: 0-500-39028-2
Scribes, Warriors and Kings(Updated) The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya (New Aspects of Antiquity) by William L. Fash, BarbaraW. Fash Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1993 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-27708-9, ISBN: 0-500-27708-7
"Copan in modern Honduras was one of the great cities of the Classic Maya. Explorers found ruined temples, plazas, and more hieroglyphic inscriptions and sculpted monuments than in any other site in the New World. But the stones were silent, the script undeciphered. At last, an international team of scholars is solving the puzzle of Copan and the ancient Maya. William Fash shows how decipherment of the Maya inscriptions, together with ne ..."
"The collection boasts broad chronological and geographical coverage—from the irrigation networks of Teotihuacan to the use of ritual water technology at Casas Grandes—that shows how procurement and storage systems were adapted to local ..."
"Unlock the mysteries of the Mayan world. Deep in the rain forests of South and Central America, the Mayan culture thrived for almost 4,000 years. From the earliest Mayan farmer in 2,600 BC through the thirteenth century AD, the Maya developed an elaborate society, built great cities and temples, and created the only real system of writing native to the Americas. Although many of the intricacies of the Mayan culture remain shrouded in ..."
" This volume explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors to this volume consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physical—and metaphysical—place via their built environment. T ..."