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.

Just-discovered texts at Xultun show a strong concern with astronomy and numerology, as well as evidence of lost books. Other finds include the discovery in an underwater cavern of the earliest known occupant of the region, the Hoyo Negro girl, and new evidence for the first architecture at Ceibal. The Maya highlights the vitality of current scholarship into this brilliant civilization.

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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