"This revised edition also expands information on the roles of women, courtiers, and outsiders; covers novel research about Maya cities, including research into water quality, marketplaces, fortifications, and integrated road systems; and ..."
"This edition incorporates the most recent archaeological and epigraphic findings, which continue to proceed at a fast pace, along with full-color illustrations."
""The gold standard of introductory books on the ancient Maya." ―ExpeditionThe Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the New World’s greatest ancient civilization. Coe and Houston update this classic by distilling the latest scholarship for the general reader and student. This new edition incorporates the most recent archaeological and epigraphic research, which continues to proceed at a fast pace. Amo ..."
"Continuing in the tradition of the Maya Archaeology series from Precolumbia Mesoweb Press, this volume offers chapters by leading authorities on discoveries and research in the field of Maya archaeology. Topics include a royal tomb at Palenque, an early Maya ceremonial center at Ceibal, a hieroglyphic stairway at El Palmar recording a pilgrimage to distant Copan, and breakthrough insights into Maya divinity. The volume is accompanied by ..."
"Chapters include: High Resolution Documentation of the Murals of San Bartolo, Guatemala, by William Saturno....Strontium Isotopic Identification of an Early Classic Migrant to Punta de Chimino, Guatemala, by Lori E. Wright and Bruce R. Bachand....Communal and Personal Hunting Shrines Around Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, by Linda A. Brown....The Discovery of Plan de Ayutla, Mexico, by Luis Alberto Martos López....Painted Lithic Artifacts f ..."
"This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. While the invention and decipherment of writing systems have long been focuses of research, their eclipse or replacement have been little studied. Because writing is so important in many cultures and civilizations, its disappearance - followed by a period without it or by replacement by a different writi ..."
"The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the "full writing" of recorded speech. "Writing without Words" challenges this orthodoxy, and with it widespread notions of literacy and dominant views of art and literature, history and geography. Asking how knowledge was encoded and preserved in Pre-Columbian and early colonial Mesoamerican cultures, ..."
"Maya kings led opulent lives and, in death, lay in spectacular tombs. This book, illustrated with over 350 photographs and graphics in full color, publishes a royal crypt found in 2010 at El Zotz, Guatemala. Covered by a temple with celestial symbols, the tomb proved unusually rich. The main body belonged to the likely founder of a dynasty in the fourth century AD. The treasure with him included effigy ceramics, jade masks, regalia, tex ..."
The Gifted Passage Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text by StephenHouston 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-23017-8, ISBN: 0-300-23017-6
"Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Stewart, Andrew, and Celina
Gray. ... Stone, Andrea J. Images from the Underworld: Naj Tunich and the
Tradition of Maya Cave Painting. Austin: University ... Reading Maya Art: A
Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture. ... Susan Schroeder
and Sta ord Poole, 33–65. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
Sparrow, John."
The Memory of Bones Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya (Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American & Latin) by StephenHouston, David Stuart, Karl Taube Paperback, 334 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71319-2, ISBN: 0-292-71319-3
"All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, a ..."
"Inomata , Takeshi , Erick Ponciano , Richard E. Terry , Estela Pinto , Daniela
Triadan , and Harriet F. Beaubien . 2001. “ In the Palace of ... Journal of Field
Archaeology 28 ( 3–4 ) : 287–306 . Inomata ... Jackson , Sarah E. 2013. Politics of
the ... In Phoneticism in Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing , edited by John S. Justeson
and Lyle Campbell , 315–362 . Institute for ... In Imaging Dance : Visual
Representations of Dancers and Dan ..."
An Inconstant Landscape The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala (Paperback) by Thomas G. Garrison, StephenHouston Paperback, 492 Pages, Published 2020 by University Press Of Colorado, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-64642-077-3, ISBN: 1-64642-077-2
"In this volume, contributors address the challenges faced by smaller polities on the peripheries of powerful kingdoms and ask how subordination was experienced and independent policy asserted."
"He has collaborated with the Marshall Space and Flight Center, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, and the National Center for Airborne ... Cultural y Natural Maya (
PACUNAM), National Science Foundation, Waitt Institute for Discovery, National
Geographic, and the GEOS Foundation. ... (El Zotz and San Bartolo) and the
Highlands (Pompeya, Ixquisis), as well as participating in the investigation of
colonial ruins."
"The ruins of Calakmul, Mexico, have produced a series of significant archaeological finds over the years. Among the most recent and important is a buried platform whose exterior is covered in figural murals. Mural paintings are among the greatest artistic achievements of the Maya, and yet very few have survived ancient destruction or the subsequent ravages of the tropical climate. Thanks to these well-preserved images we are offered an ..."
"The ruins of Calakmul, Mexico, have produced a series of significant archaeological finds over the years. Among the most recent and important is a buried platform whose exterior is covered in figural murals. Mural paintings are among the greatest artistic achievements of the Maya, and yet very few have survived ancient destruction or the subsequent ravages of the tropical climate. Thanks to these well-preserved images we are offered an ..."
The Gifted Passage Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text by StephenD. Houston Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-22896-0, ISBN: 0-300-22896-1
"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 masculinity in Maya civilization. The political vo ..."
An Inconstant Landscape(1st Edition) The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala by Thomas G. Garrison, StephenHouston Hardcover, 492 Pages, Published 2018 by University Press Of Colorado ISBN-13: 978-1-60732-763-9, ISBN: 1-60732-763-5
"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 with powerful neighbors and serves toda ..."
Fiery Pool(1st Edition) The Maya and the Mythic Sea (Peabody Essex Museum) by Daniel Finamore, StephenD. Houston, Marc Zender Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2010 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-16137-3, ISBN: 0-300-16137-9
"A revolutionary new interpretation of ancient Maya art and culture Maya art and hieroglyphs constitute one of the world’s most fascinating, visually striking, and complex systems of expression. Most scholarly interpretations of Maya art and culture have emphasized that this ancient civilization was oriented toward inland centers and preoccupied with the blood of royal lineage and ritual sacrifice. Drawing on recent archaeological discov ..."
"CONTRIBUTORS John Bodel is W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics
and Professor of History at Brown University. A graduate of Princeton University (
BA) and the University of Michigan (MA, PhD), he writes about the social,
religious, ..."