University of Texas Press , 1994. — 194 p. Maya architecture is often described as "massive" and "monumental," but experiments at Copan, Honduras, convinced Elliot Abrams that 300 people could have built one of the large palaces there in only 100 days. In this groundbreaking work, Abrams explicates his theory of architectural energetics, which involves translating structures...
Routledge, 2003. — 297 p. This book presents the current state of Maya archaeology by focusing on the history of the field for the last 100 years, present day research, and forward looking prescription for the direction of the field.
Vendome Press, 2012. — 237 p. The Maya are of enormous and abiding fascination to anybody interested in archaeology, ancient history, astronomy, or the visual arts. From the 3rd century BC to the 14th century AD, while Europe was deep in the Dark and Middle Ages, the Maya were producing astonishing sculpture, stelae, and wall murals, and building magnificent temples, palaces,...
Penguin Books, 1980. — 308 p. Ancient Mesoamerica, defined as the civilized portions of pre-Conquest Mexico and Central America, is a subject so large and complex that it could not be handled properly in a text of this length. Accordingly, it was decided to divide it between two volumes, of which the first, covering only the non-Maya peoples of Mexico, has already appeared. The...
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2011. — 217 p. Las investigaciones sobre la organización política de los mayas muestran una diversidad de enfoques y perspectivas. Con frecuencia, las interpretaciones y resultados derivados de estas indagaciones han llevado a asumir posiciones antagónicas o francamente contradictorias. El tema ha originado polémicas y debates en los...
University of Michigan Press, 1987. — 226 p. — (Technical Report 21). Calakmul is a large Maya site in the Yucatán Peninsula of southern Mexico, just north of Tikal and the Guatemala border. In the 1980s, Joyce Marcus sketched and photographed the inscriptions on the monuments of Calakmul, in an effort to understand the nature of Maya territorial organization through the...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 242 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 55). K'awiil: El dios maya del rayo, la abundancia y los gobernantes analiza a una de las deidades más importantes del panteón maya, lo que nos permite aproximarnos al pensamiento religioso de este pueblo, ya que es a través de los mitos, los rituales y otras actividades religiosas y culturales en las...
University of Virginia Art Museum, 1981. — 264 p. This book is a major contribution to the understanding of the culture and religious beliefs of the Classic Maya in Mexico and Central America. This scholarly beautifully researched volume is ample testimony that Maya research is passing through a very exciting phase, during while a lot of dust is being shaken off many shelves....
University of Oklahoma Press, 1978. — 335 p. The use of tobacco among the Mayas and their cousins in the rest of the New World not only was a social custom, as it is in our society nowadays, but had far-reaching implications in religion and medicine and a lasting impact on art.
Thames & Hudson, 2008. — 241 p. The ideal reference on Maya archaeology.—Science NewsBehind the ancient cities of the Maya and their abandoned artworks lie the turbulent stories of their ruling dynasties. One of the world's greatest and most powerful civilizations, the Maya experienced constant conflict in a landscape divided among numerous kingdoms. Intense rivalries,...
Thames & Hudson, 2008. — 272 p. Sunday, 15 June 1952. Having spent four years clearing a secret passage inside Palenque's Temple of the Inscriptions, Mexican archaeologist Alberto Ruz gazed into a vaulted chamber. There, beneath a gigantic carved stone block, he would make a spectacular discovery: the intact burial of King Pakal, complete with jade jewelry and an exquisite...
University of Texas Press, 1986. — 412 p. Archaeologists are continually faced with a pervasive problem: how can cultures, and the interactions among cultures, be differentiated in the archaeological record? This issue is especially difficult in peripheral areas, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and southern Guatemala in the New World. Encompassing zones that are clearly Mayan in...
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mëxico, 2010. — 758 p. MAYAS guia de arquitectuta y paisaje ofrece una visita a las tierras, las ciudades y las creaciones de una de las culturas más importantes de América. Una cultura viva. de las planicies atlánticas de tabasco y campeche, en méxico, a la costa del pacífico; de las tierras altas de Guatemala y Chiapas, a las bajas de Peten y...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 162 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 49). 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...
Peabody Museum, 1965. — 631 p. — (Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Vol. 54). The present report has been in preparation, if somewhat intermittently, since the inception of the field work in 1953. This report is organized into four main parts. The first of these deals with the general background to the problems of prehistoric Maya...