The Maya

Höfundar: Michael D. Coe; Stephen Houston (Útgáfa: 10)
The Maya

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Coe and Houston update this classic account of the New World's greatest ancient civilization, incorporating the most recent research in a fast-changing field. New discoveries of spectacular stucco sculptures at El Zotz and Holmul reveal surprising aspects of Maya royalty; the 'Classic' Maya themselves can be understood as occupants of royal courts, full of Machiavellian intrigue yet operating in close communion with gods and cosmos.

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Útgefandi
Thames & Hudson
ISBN
9780500772805
Print ISBN
9780500291887
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
10
Höfundar
Michael D. Coe; Stephen Houston
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2015-05-18
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • About the Author
  • Other titles of interest
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction
  • The setting
  • Natural resources
  • Areas
  • Periods
  • Peoples and languages
  • Climate change and its cultural impact
  • 2 The Earliest Maya
  • Early hunters
  • Archaic collectors and cultivators
  • Early Preclassic villages
  • The Middle Preclassic expansion
  • Preclassic Kaminaljuyu
  • The Maya lowlands
  • 3 The Rise of Maya Civilization
  • The birth of the calendar
  • Izapa and the Pacific Coast
  • The Hero Twins and the Creation of the World (box)
  • Kaminaljuyu and the Maya highlands
  • The Peten and the Maya lowlands
  • The Mirador region
  • San Bartolo
  • From Preclassic to Classic in the Maya lowlands
  • 4 Classic Splendor: the Early Period
  • Defining
  • Teotihuacan: military giant
  • The Esperanza culture
  • Cerén: a New World Pompeii?
  • Tzakol culture in the Central Area
  • Copan in the Early Classic
  • The Northern Area
  • 5 Classic Splendor: the Late Period
  • Classic sites in the Central Area
  • Copan and Quirigua
  • Tikal
  • Calakmul
  • Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras, and Bonampak
  • The Petexbatun
  • Palenque
  • Comalcalco and Tonina
  • Classic sites in the Northern Area: Río Bec, Chenes, and Coba
  • Art of the Late Classic
  • 6 The Terminal Classic
  • The Great Collapse
  • Ceibal and the Putun Maya
  • Puuc sites in the Northern Area
  • The Terminal Classic at Chichen Itza
  • Ek’ Balam
  • The Cotzumalhuapa problem
  • The end of an era
  • 7 The Postclassic
  • The Toltec invasion and Chichen Itza
  • The Itza and the city of Mayapan
  • The independent states of Yucatan
  • The Central Area in the Postclassic
  • Maya-Mexican dynasties in the Southern Area
  • The Spanish Conquest
  • 8 Maya Life on the Eve of the Conquest
  • The farm and the chase
  • Industry and commerce
  • The life cycle
  • Society and politics
  • 9 Maya Thought and Culture
  • Being religious
  • Ordering the universe
  • Gods and spirits
  • The sun and the moon
  • The celestial wanderers and the stars
  • The nature of Maya writing
  • History graven in stone
  • The Great Game
  • A possessed world
  • 10 The Enduring Maya
  • The new Spanish order
  • The highland Maya, yesterday and today
  • The Tsotsil Maya of Zinacantan
  • The Yukateko Maya
  • The War of the Castes
  • The Maya of Chan Kom
  • The Lakandon
  • Uprising in Chiapas
  • The great terror
  • The Maya future
  • Visiting the Maya Area
  • Dynastic Rulers of Classic Maya Cities
  • Further Reading
  • Sources of Illustrations
  • Index
  • Copyright Page