BAR Publishing, 2015. — 203 p. — (BAR International Series 2742). In this publication the results of an archaeological research project conducted by the Department of Medieval Archaeology of the University of Tübingen, Institute for Prehistory and Medieval Archaeology, under the leadership of Barbara Scholkmann during the years 2003 to 2009 in the ruins of Panamá la Vieja...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 209 p. — (BAR International Series 2757/Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 43). From 1956 to 1970 excavations at Tikal, one of the most famous classical Maya sites, was carried out by the University of Pennsylvania Museum Tikal Project. Until now, much of the field research from these excavations has remained unpublished. This volume draws on the...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 85 p. — (BAR International Series 2767). In 1992, in the context of the Archaeological Project Teotihuacan 92-94 under the direction of Eduardo Matos Montezuma , two caves in the southeast of the Pyramid of the Sun were excavated. The undertaken research demonstrated the use of these caves by teotihuacanos in a ceremonial context but also by the cultures...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 111 p. — (BAR International Series 2854). Durante los días 23,24 y 25 de octubre de 2014 se desarrolló en Mérida (Yucatán, México) dentro de Festival de Cultura Maya (FICMAYA) el congreso Cultura y Patrimonio Mexicano del siglo XXI orientado a reflexionar en torno a diferentes aspectos tipos de patrimonio (arqueológico, arquitectónico, documental),...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 611 p. — (BAR International Series 2855). Cette recherche de doctorat est le fruit d’une analyse innovante de l’architecture méso-américaine, et plus précisément de la planification urbaine et du temple mayas. Elle touche aux domaines de l’archéologie, de l’anthropologie, de la symbolique et de la sémiologie. L’auteur montre, grâce à une documentation...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 183 p. — (BAR International Series 2879). This book examines health indicators in sites in northern Belize and compares the results to the larger context of the health of the ancient lowland Maya. The research was completed through the analysis of the skeletal populations of three sites and by comparing results both within and among those sites.
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 267 p. — (BAR International Series 2899/Archaeology of the Maya 1). The socio-economic nature of Late Postclassic (AD c. 1100-1500) Maya society is not well understood and still eludes researchers. Through a combination of analytical methods, including petrographic, chemical and experimental, examination of surface features and ethnographic analyses,...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 309 p. — (BAR International Series 2937/Archaeology of the Maya 3). En esta obra se abarca de manera amplia los diversos tipos de caminos que construyeron los Mayas Antiguos, específicamente los caminos pavimentados conocidos como calzadas mayas o sacbeob. Como estudio de caso se analizan once sacbeob que se localizan en los sitios de Ichmul, San Felipe...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 115 p. — (BAR International Series 2945). Este trabajo es una propuesta para estudiar la organización social descentralizada en la Mixteca Alta. Para ello nos focalizamos en el estudio del sitio arqueológico El Alvarado en asociación a otros sitios menores ubicados en el Valle de Tlaxiaco. El objetivo fue tener un acercamiento a la organización social a...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 224 p. — (BAR International Series 3013/Cultural Studies in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology 2). Este libro es un estudio sobre la navegación prehispánica y los paisajes culturales marítimos en Mesoamérica. La autora presenta un estudio de caso para explicar la conectividad espacial entre el Altiplano Central y la costa del Pacífico a lo largo del río...
BAR Publishing, 2024. — 308 p. — (BAR International Series 3177/Fieldiana: Anthropology 48). Archaeological investigations at the prehispanic Ejutla site in Oaxaca, Mexico, have had a foundational role in reframing our perspectives on Mesoamerican economies, specifically craft specialization. This volume reports on the excavations of a residential complex located at the...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 173 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 8). The authors assembled in this volume share a common research interest in the Puuc region of Mexico, a hilly landscape that stretches from the southern portion of the state of Yucatán into northern Campeche. As a collection, the papers demonstrate a myriad of approaches to the history of this area,...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 104 p. En esta obra se propone por vez primera una interpretación integral de los elementos iconográficos e iconólogicos que muestra la escultura huasteca del denominado “Adolescente de Jalpan”, que parecen relacionarse con la iconografía asociada con el dios Quetzalcoatl y su hermano gemelo, Xolotl. Además de analizar la posible simbología de la...
Archaeopress, 2014. — 131 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 3). Climate variability and human management strategies on crop stands were major factors that frequently affected agricultural yields among indigenous populations from central Mexico. This work seeks to model food production in ancient Tepeaca, a Late Postclassic (AD 1325-1521) and Early Colonial (16th...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 466 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 12). This book presents a discussion of the culture history of ancient West Mexico from the time of the first human inhabitants until the last cultural developments that took place before the Spanish invasion in the 16th century. The overall narrative is played out within the context of the Mesoamerican...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 242 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 14). From Ritual to Refuse explores the faunal exploitation by the Maya elite at the site of Chinikihá, Chiapas, during the end of the Late Classic period (AD 700-850) by applying zooarchaeological and statistical analyses to a faunal assemblage located in a basurero or midden behind a palatial structure at...
Routledge, 2022. — 375 p. — (Routledge Archaeology of the Ancient Americas ). 3,000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands presents the cutting-edge research of 25 authors in the fields of archaeology, biological anthropology, art history, ethnohistory, and epigraphy. Together, they explore issues central to ancient Maya identity, political history, and warfare. The Maya...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. — 288 p. — (University Museum Monograph 118; Tikal Report 27: Part B). Occupied continuously for 1,500 years, Tikal was the most important demographic, economic, administrative, and ritual center of its region. The collection of materials recovered at Tikal is the largest and most diverse known from the Lowlands. This book provides a...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. — 267 p. — (University Museum Monograph 44; Tikal Report 33). This study treats the entire corpus of stone and wood monuments from the Maya site of Tikal and lesser periphery locations. Each description includes details of provenience and condition. Every carved surface is illustrated by a standardized scale drawing, supplemented in...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 158 p. — (University Museum Monograph 135; Tikal Report 37). The pre-Columbian city we call Tikal was abandoned by its Maya residents during the tenth century A.D. and succumbed to the Guatemalan rain forest. It was not until 1848 that it was brought to the attention of the outside world. For the next century Tikal, remote and isolated,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 158 p. — (University Museum Monograph 151; Tikal Report 17). This volume reports on excavations carried out by Peter D. Harrison in the early 1960s in the West Plaza of the Maya center of Tikal, Guatemala. Primarily descriptive in nature, this work is an important compliment to Tikal Report No. 14: Excavations in the Great Plaza, North...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. — 127 p. — (University Museum Monograph 57; Tikal Report 31). The graffiti incised on walls and other surfaces at the site of Tikal, Guatemala, afford an important and fascinating glimpse into a little-explored area of Classic Maya life. This wealth of figural and symbolic material was produced by the inhabitants of Tikal over a span of...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 424 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 60). 1975. Las pinturas murales de Cacaxtla se descubren de manera fortuita. Provocan emoción en la comunidad mesoamericanista por su original estilo, en el cruce de tradiciones del Altiplano Central, de la zona maya y de la costa del Golfo. Vibrantes referencias policromas, también hacen eco a los paneles...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 360 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 59). 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, especially...
BAR Publishing, 2014. — 193 p. — (BAR International Series 2693). Prehispanic Maya architecture features a large variety of artistic expression, from reliefs and sculptures made of stone or stucco to mural paintings and graffiti found on the plastered surfaces of their walls and façades. All of this constitutes both animportant artistic component which complements the...
BAR Publishing, 2014. — 193 p. — (BAR International Series 2693). Prehispanic Maya architecture features a large variety of artistic expression, from reliefs and sculptures made of stone or stucco to mural paintings and graffiti found on the plastered surfaces of their walls and façades. All of this constitutes both animportant artistic component which complements the...
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 206 p. — (BAR International Series 2910/Archaeology of the Maya 2). As integrated and varied ritual contexts, how do changing patterns of pre-Columbian cave use inform the complex of historical, social, political, economic and related ideological processes in action during the inception, florescence, and collapse of Tipan Chen Uitz and other ancient Maya...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 289 p. — (BAR International Series 2956/UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series 2). This work represents the archaeological investigation of a distinctive zone of the Three Rivers Region (TRR) of far northwestern Belize. The zone is dominated by the Alacranes Bajo, a seasonally inundated karstic depression bordered by the settlements of Nojol Nah and...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 238 p. — (BAR International Series 3055/Archaeology of the Maya 8). Both the perceived successes and failures of the Maya are often linked to their relationship with the local environment and their response to episodes of climate change over a period of nearly 2000 years. However, our understanding of human responses to environmental stress has mostly...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 362 p. — (BAR International Series 3068/Archaeology of the Maya 9). This volume examines the economic system of the Classic Maya Lowlands center of Uxul, Campeche, a secondary center under the political influence of Calakmul. A household-based approach is used to review the urban economic system in which these households played a central role. Multiple...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 135 p. — (BAR International Series 3115/Archaeology of the Maya 10). Habitada desde el Preclásico Medio, Xoclán se desarrolló como centro urbano a partir del Clásico Temprano. El actual parque arqueológico cuenta 52 hectáreas e incluye el área cívico-ceremonial y algunas otras plataformas, mientras que las restantes estructuras que constituyeron parte de...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 632 p. — (BAR International Series 2929). Este libro es un informe sobre las excavaciones en el sitio del período azteca de Yautepec, en el estado mexicano de Morelos. Las excavaciones se centraron en las estructuras domésticas, particularmente su arquitectura y los depósitos ricos de basuras asociados. La mayoría de los residentes vivían en pequeñas...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 326 p. — (BAR International Series 2985/Archaeology of the Maya 5). El paisaje urbano maya: del Preclásico al Virreinato lleva a cabo una reflexión en torno a ese término en el ámbito de la cultura maya. El volumen se aproxima desde diferentes perspectivas: urbano, contextual, arquitectónico e iconográfico, es decir, todos aquellos aspectos que inciden...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 346 p. — (BAR International Series 3009/Archaeology of the Maya 7). This study examines the origins of complex society in the Maya Lowlands during the Middle Preclassic period. Excavations at Cahal Pech - a mid-sized Maya settlement in the Belize River Valley - revealed complex architectural sequences over a 600-year developmental period, which spans the...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 232 p. — (BAR International Series 3007/Archaeology of the Maya 6). At Lamanai and Ka’kabish, two Precolumbian Maya centres in north-western Belize, archaeologists have researched the environment, architecture, and long-term occupation of the civic-ceremonial centres. The sites’ rural or hinterland populations, however, which were presumably critical to...
BAR Publishing, 1988. — 158 p. — (BAR International Series 464). The primary importance of the Cuello site lies in its continuous sequence of Preclassic or Formative occupation represented in Platform 34, which dates back into the Early Preclassic. Ten of the thirty-seven structures exposed in the Main Trench excavated through Platform 34 date to the Early Preclassic Period....
BAR Publishing, 2004. — 273 p. — (BAR International Series 1324). This study considers a set of buildings in the Lowland Maya area of Mexico and Central America that is defined by its association with the indigenous architectural classification otoot, "dwelling." The structures in this group are, in their physical form, representative of a larger set of Maya buildings that...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 242 p. The present bibliography of contributions in French to Mesoamerican studies aims to serve several purposes. For more than a century, Spanish, English and French were the three official languages of the International Congresses of Americanists. This situation stems from historical reasons: the first Congresses took place in Nancy, Luxemburg and...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 94 p. “Los animales enseñaron el camino…” La fauna de la Sierra Gorda queretana a través de sus representaciones cerámicas arqueológicas by María Teresa Muñoz Espinosa and José Carlos Castañeda Reyes La Sierra Gorda queretana fue declarada “Reserva de la Biosfera” el 19 de mayo de 1997, por decreto presidencial. Como área natural así protegida, son casi...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 185 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 45). 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...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 155 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 46). 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...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 370 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 48). 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...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 312 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 50). Dans une aire culturelle où la géographie conspire contre la fluidité des échanges, les sociétés mésoaméricaines ont su trouver des réponses techniques adaptées à leurs besoins. À une époque où l’acheminement de marchandises et de biens s’effectue principalement à dos d’homme, certaines civilisations...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 328 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 54). Toniná fue una ciudad maya, localizada entre dos áreas culturales hacia los Altos de Chiapas. Se ha planteado de manera generalizada que el colapso maya implicó la desaparición y despoblamiento de muchas ciudades; en esta investigación se aborda la pervivencia de Toniná hacia el umbral del Posclásico....
Archaeopress, 2021. — 188 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 54). Los antiguos mayas emplearon fundamentalmente herramientas de piedra, tanto tallada como pulida, para lograr su extraordinario desarrollo. Sin embargo, los trabajos centrados en este aspecto todavía son poco frecuentes. En este trabajo se presenta el análisis tecno-tipológico de los materiales líticos...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 314 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 53). 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...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 185 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 56). El friso de la Estructura 1-A Sub de Balamkú, Campeche, es una de las más complejas expresiones artísticas mayas del periodo Clásico (250-900 d.C.) enfocadas en la exaltación de los gobernantes sagrados. Comprender integralmente este monumento no requiere que únicamente sea analizando bajo las lupas...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 416 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 16). El estudio reexamina y contextualiza las investigaciones de Eduard Seler en la región de Chaculá (Departamento de Huehuetenango, Guatemala). Empezando con una discusión de la etnohistoria, así como las circunstancias históricas de las investigaciones de Seler, sus métodos son examinados de manera...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 545 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 9). This research seeks to close an essential research gap – the understanding of the water management strategies of the Maya in pre-Hispanic times. It focuses on the archaeological investigation of the hydraulic system of Uxul, a medium-sized Maya centre in the south of the state of Campeche, Mexico. Since...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2008. — 404 p. Classic-Period Cultural Currents in Southern and Central Veracruz explores the diverse traditions and dynamic interactions along the Mexican Gulf lowlands at the height of their cultural florescence. Best known for their elaborate ballgame rituals and precocious inscriptions with long-count dates, these cultures...