Scribes, Warriors and Kings(Updated) The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya (New Aspects of Antiquity) by WilliamL. Fash, Barbara W. 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 ..."
"Copán in modern Honduras was one of the great cities of the Classic Maya. Abandoned to the rain forest for nearly a thousand years, it was rediscovered in the early 1800s. Now, two centuries later, an international team of scholars is solving the puzzle of Copán and the ancient Maya. William Fash, himself one of the key contributors to the recent breakthroughs, describes how decipherment of the Maya inscriptions together with tomb finds ..."
Scribes, Warriors and Kings(1st Edition) The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya (New Aspects of Antiquity) by William Leonard Fash, Barbara W. Fash Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1991 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-39028-3, ISBN: 0-500-39028-2
Copan(Illustrated) The History of an Ancient Maya Kingdom (School of American Research Advanced Seminar) by WilliamL. Fash, E. Wyllys Andrews Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2005 by James Currey ISBN-13: 978-0-85255-981-9, ISBN: 0-85255-981-X
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"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 ..."
"Gauging the impact of one scholar’s contributions to modern archaeology For an appreciation of the growth of American archaeology over the second half of the twentieth century, one need look no further than the career of Gordon R. Willey. A preeminent archaeologist and New World theorist, Willey made innumerable contributions to the prehistory of the Americas and helped establish the leading methodological and theoretical paradigm used ..."
" 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 ..."
"A Zapotec village chief named One Earthquake is murdered by his enemies, who then carve the gruesome image of his death on a huge stone slab and place it in their temple as a warning to others. An Inca official selects young village girls to be raised in the distant House of the Chosen Women, where they will spend the rest of their childhoods learning traditional arts in complete seclusion. A Spanish priest named Bernardino Sahag�n re ..."