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  | | The Maya(Tenth) by Michael D. Coe, Stephen Houston Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2022 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-29514-4, ISBN: 0-500-29514-X "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 ..." |
 | | The Maya(9th Edition) by Michael Douglas Coe, Stephen D. Houston Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-29188-7, ISBN: 0-500-29188-8 |
 | | Maya Archaeology 3(1st Edition) Featuring the Grolier Codex by Stephen Houston, Michael Coe, Mary Miller, Karl Taube, Simon Martin, Takeshi Inomata, Daniela Triadan, Christophe Helmke, Jaime Awe, Shawn Morton, Gyles Iannone, Kenichiro Tsukamoto, Octavio Esparza, Arnoldo Gonzalez, Joshua Balcells, Mary Jane Acuña, Joel Skidmore, Charles Golden, Chip Breitwieser, Charles W. Golden Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Precolumbia Mesoweb Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9859317-0-4, ISBN: 0-9859317-0-1 "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 ..." |
 | | Maya Archaeology 1(1st Edition) Featuring the Ancient Maya Murals of San Bartolo, Guatemala by William Saturno, Linda A. Brown, Zachary X. Hruby, Karl Taube ., Gene Ware, Bruce R. Bachand, Lori E. Wright, Luis Alberto Martos, Joel Skidmore, Charles Golden, Stephen Houston, Charles W. Golden, Stephen D. Houston Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2009 by Precolumbia Mesoweb Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9821333-1-6, ISBN: 0-9821333-1-6 "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 ..." |
 | | The Disappearance of Writing Systems(Updated) Perspectives on Literacy and Communication by John Baines, John Bennet, Stephen Houston, Stephen D. Houston Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2008 by Equinox Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-84553-013-6, ISBN: 1-84553-013-6 "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 ..." |
 | | Writing Without Words Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes by Dr Elizabeth Hill Boone, Walter D. Mignolo, Prof Stephen Houston, Margaret J. Goldstein, Mark B. King, John Pohl, Tom Cummins Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1994 by Duke Univ Pr (Tx) ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1377-9, ISBN: 0-8223-1377-4 "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, ..." |
 | | The Hidden Language of Graphic Signs Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks by John P. Bodel, Stephen Houston Hardcover, 333 Pages, Published 2021 by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ISBN-13: 978-1-108-84061-3, ISBN: 1-108-84061-2 "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, ..." |
 | | The Hidden Language of Early Writing Systems Medium as Message by Stephen Houston, John Bodel Published 2021 ISBN-13: 978-1-108-81429-4, ISBN: 1-108-81429-8 "What if meaningful marks did service alongside records of spoken language? This book, a compilation of essays by global authorities on these subjects, zeroes in on hidden writing and alternative systems of graphic notation." |
 | | An Inconstant Landscape The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala (Paperback) by Thomas G. Garrison, Stephen Houston 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." |
 | | The Adorned Body Mapping Ancient Maya Dress (Hardback) by Nicholas Carter, Stephen Houston, Franco Rossi Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4773-2070-9, ISBN: 1-4773-2070-9 "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 ..." |
 | | Mayan Hieroglyphics by Stephen Houston Hardcover, Published by Crc Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8493-8876-7, ISBN: 0-8493-8876-7 |
 | | An Inconstant Landscape The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala by Thomas G. Garrison, Stephen Houston 492 Pages, Published 2019 by University Press Of Colorado ISBN-13: 978-1-60732-764-6, ISBN: 1-60732-764-3 "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 Gifted Passage Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text by Stephen Houston 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." |
 | | Temple of the Night Sun(1st Edition) A Royal Maya Tomb at El Diablo, Guatemala by Stephen Houston, Sarah Newman, Edwin Roman, Thomas Garrison, Nicholas Carter, Alyce De Carteret, Andrew Scherer, Karl Taube Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Precolumbia Mesoweb Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9821333-9-2, ISBN: 0-9821333-9-1 "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 ..." |
 | | Joukowsky Institute Publication Re-Presenting the Past : Archaeology Through Text and Image by Sheila Bonde, Stephen Houston 215 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxbow Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78297-232-7, ISBN: 1-78297-232-3 "Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Memoirs vol 15, no. 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. Smith,Monica L. 2005 Networks, Territories, and theCartographyofAncient States. Annals of theAssociation ofAmericanGeographers 95(4):832–849. Sorrel,Alan1981 Reconstructingthe Past. Edited byMartin Sorrel. London: Batsford. Spier, Jo 1978 Dat allesheeft mijnOoggezien:Herinneringen aan het concentratiekamp,Theresiensta ..." |
 | | The Memory of Bones Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya (Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American & Latin) by Stephen Houston, 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 ..." |
 | | An Inconstant Landscape(1st Edition) The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala by Thomas G. Garrison, Stephen Houston 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 ..." |
 | | Re-Presenting the Past Archaeology through Text and Image (Joukowsky Institute Publication) by Sheila Bonde, Stephen Houston, Oxbow Books Paperback, 215 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxbow Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78297-231-0, ISBN: 1-78297-231-5 "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. Two papers explore the classical past a ..." |
 | | Maya Archaeology 2 Featuring the Ancient Maya Murals of Calakmul, Mexico by Simon Martin, David Stuart, Ramón Carrasco Vargas, María Cordeiro Baqueiro, Arnoldo González Cruz, Guillermo Bernal Romero, Greg Borgstede, Charles Golden, Stephen Houston, Joel Skidmore Paperback, 158 Pages, Published 2012 by Precolumbia Mesoweb Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9859317-8-0, ISBN: 0-9859317-8-7 "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 ..." |
 | | Maya Archaeology 2(1st Edition) Featuring the Ancient Maya Murals of Calakmul, Mexico by Simon Martin, David Stuart, Guillermo Bernal Romero, Greg Borgstede, Ramón Carrasco Vargas, María Cordeiro, Arnoldo González Cruz, Charles Golden, Stephen Houston, Joel Skidmore, Marãa Cordeiro Hardcover, 158 Pages, Published 2012 by Precolumbia Mesoweb Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9821333-8-5, ISBN: 0-9821333-8-3 "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 ..." |
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