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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 ..."






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."






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 ..."






The Gifted Passage
Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text
by Stephen D. 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 ..."

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