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Investigaciones arqueológicas en la antigua capital maya de Tamarindito
Av Markus Eberl, Claudia Marie Vela González
Häftad, 2016
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The Watery Scroll rulers selected the ancient Maya site of Tamarindito as their capital. First settled around 300 BC, the site served as their seat from the fifth through the eighth century AD. After the collapse, people continued to live at Tamarindito for several generations. Archaeological …
Patrones de asentamiento del Malpaís de Zacapu (Michoacán, México) y de sus alrededores en el Posclásico
Häftad, 2016
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This publication presents the results of the archaeological studies relative to the settlement pattern, realized between 1983 and 1996 within the framework of the Michoacán Projects I and III led by the researchers of the Centre of Mexican and Centro-American studies (CEMCA). The Michoacán project …
Aportes del enfoque tecnológico a la arqueología precolombina
Pasado y presente de la alfarería en el valle del río Cuyes y su región (Andes sur-orientales del ecuador)
Häftad, 2017
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Located in the Northwest of South America (Ecuador), the Cuyes River Valley acts as a transition corridor between the Andean and Amazon regions. This research attempts to determine the ethnic origin of the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Cuyes valley through the application of a method of ceramic …
Ancient Engineering: Selective Ceramic Processing in the Middle Balsas Region of Guerrero, Mexico
Häftad, 2017
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This volume has two main objectives: establishing a chronology of the Middle Balsas and detailing the region’s pottery production methods. The author posits that pottery intended for different functions was often deliberately made and/or decorated in ways that were chosen to make the vessels more …
Population of Tikal: Implications for Maya Demography
Häftad, 2018
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The Classic Maya (AD 250-900) of central and southern Yucatan were long seen as exceptional in many ways. We now know that they did not invent Mesoamerican writing or calendars, that they were just as warlike as other ancient peoples, that many innovations in art and architecture attributed to them …
Navigation et installations lacustres dans les hautes terres du Mexique: les cas mexica et tarasque
Häftad, 2018
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In a cultural area where geography conspires against ease of exchange, Mesoamerican societies discovered technical answers adapted to their needs. At a time when the exchange of merchandise and goods relied mainly on human transport, some civilizations turned to a mystical aquatic environment: …
industria lítica bifacial del sitio en cantera Chipana-1
Conocimiento y técnica de los grupos humanos del Desierto de Atacama, norte de Chile al final del Pleistoceno
Häftad, 2018
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The site of Chipana-1 is located in the middle of the Atacama Desert, in the Pampa del Tamarugal (PdT), 1200 m asl. The site is a good example of past societies adaptation to hyper-arid environments, and provides new insights into the early human occupations of South America. The well-preserved …
Technologie du harponnage sur la côte Pacifique du désert d’Atacama (nord du Chili)
Häftad, 2018
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These objects do not have a single purpose. This is the central premise that guides the research within this book. Throughout the volume the reader will follow a representation of a marine hunter-gatherer society, a projection deriving from one of its iconic and most important material assets, the …
El Palacio: Historiography and new perspectives on a pre-Tarascan city of northern Michoacán, Mexico
Häftad, 2020
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In the centuries that preceded the European conquest in 1521, the central-northern region of the state of Michoacán, West Mexico, was a place of significant socio-political changes materialized by important transformations of settlement pattern and material culture. The archaeological site of El …
Toniná, una ciudad maya de Chiapas
Vida y muerte en las postrimerías del colapso maya
Häftad, 2021
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Toniná was a Mayan city, located between two cultural areas near the Chiapas Highlands. It has been widely proposed that the Maya collapse implied the disappearance and depopulation of many cities; this research addresses the survival of Toniná towards the threshold of the Postclassic. For this …
La industria lítica del núcleo urbano maya de La Blanca, Petén, Guatemala
Tecnología y tipología
Häftad, 2021
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The ancient Maya used mainly stone tools, made of either ground stone and chipped stone, to achieve their extraordinary development. However, works focused on this aspect are still rare. This book presents the techno-typological analysis of lithic materials from La Blanca, a Mayan archaeological …
Skyband Group, Copan Honduras
Penn State Excavations 1990, 1997
Häftad, 2023
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The Skyband Group is an impressive elite site in the urban core of Copán, Honduras, which is dominated by the palatial compounds of Maya sub-royal nobles. Such grandees often bore court titles showing that they were clients and officials of kings, but also competitors for political power, …
Adolescente de Jalpan
Primer estudio iconografico y esbozo de interpretacion iconologica sobre una escultura huasteca en la Sierra Gorda del Noreste de Mexico
Av María Teresa Muñoz Espinosa
Häftad, 2024
479 kr
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This book proposes an interpretation of the iconographic elements and an iconological analysis of the Huastec sculpture of the so-called "Adolescente de Jalpan", which seems to be related to the iconography and iconology associated with the god Quetzalcoatl and his twin brother, Xolotl. After …
En torno a los códigos mesoamericanos de comunicación visual: la relación entre texto e imagen
Av Daniel Salazar Lama, Rogelio Valencia Rivera
Häftad, 2026
469 kr
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Este volumen reúne los resultados de un diálogo interdisciplinario sobre las complejas relaciones entre imagen y escritura en Mesoamérica. A partir del simposio “En torno a los códigos mesoamericanos de comunicación visual: la relación entre texto e imagen”, celebrado en el marco del 56° Congreso …
Bajo La Sombra del Volcan
Vestigios de Los Antiguos Pobladores de Los Guachimontones, Jalisco
Av Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, Héctor J. Cardona Machado m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
637 kr
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Los Guachimontones is one of the best known and most visited archaeological sites in western Mexico, recognised as a key center of complex societies in the region, especially as the epicentre of the Teuchitlán culture (ca. 300 B.C.E.-450 C.E.). Although its long history of occupation and …
