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This is the first comprehensive, one-volume encyclopedia in English devoted to pre-Columbian archaeology of the Mesoamerican culture area. In more than 500 articles by the major experts in the field, this work brings the most recent scholarship to an examination of regional environments and their cultural evolution. Entries range from the familiar and world-renowned archaeological discoveries of Maya and Aztec sites to more recent excavations such as the Sayil archaeological zone in the Yucatan and Teopantecuanitlan in Guerrero. A rich historical and cultural resource on one of the world's six cradles of civilization, this reference is ideal for students, scholars, and prospective travellers.
Hardcover:
992 pages
Company: Routledge
(2000-11-27)
ISBN: 0815308876
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Hardcover:
60 pages
Company: Consejo Nacional Para la Cultura y las Artes
(2003-01)
ISBN: 970350440X
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Ce livre présente l'étude des figurines en terre cuite de la région Tepecoacuilco-Balsas (Guerrero, Mexique). Celles-ci ont été produites tout au long de la séquence d'occupation de la région, soit de 800 avant notre ère jusqu'à la conquête espagnole. La collection est composée de figurines recueillies lors des travaux de reconnaissance et de fouilles du projet Mezcala (1980-1995). Ce dernier a été dirigé par Louise Iseult Paradis, professeur d'Anthropologie à l'Université de Montréal.
Author: Charlotte Uzu
Paperback:
188 pages
Company: Editions universitaires europeennes
(2010-09-07)
ISBN: 6131532869
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Delve in-depth into Acapulco, Ixtapa, and Zihuatanejo. Explorer's Guide Acapulco provides thorough information on where to stay and eat and what to see and do as well as a primer on the rich history and culture of this diverse region. Also covered is Taxco, the oldest mining town in the Americas, where the region’s wealth of silver has been mined for centuries Black-and-white photographs throughout
Author: Kevin Delgado
Paperback:
224 pages
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Company: Countryman Press
(2010-12-06)
ISBN: 1581571151
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Author: Miguel Covarrubias
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Company: Andre Emmerich Gallery
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.cs2654AE3A{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .cs566403DE{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } .csC98BA9AD{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; } Mesoamerica is one of six major areas of the world where humans independently changed their culture from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle into settled communities, cities, and civilization. In addition to China (twice), the Indus Valley, the Fertile Crescent of southwest Asia, Egypt, and Peru, Mesoamerica was home to exciting and irreversible changes in human culture called the “Neolithic Revolution.” The changes included domestication of plants and animals, leading to agriculture, husbandry, and eventually sedentary village life. These developments set the stage for the growth of cities, social stratification, craft specialization, warfare, writing, mathematics, and astronomy, or what we call the rise of civilization. These changes forever transformed humankind. The Historical Dictionary of Mesoamerica covers the history of Mesoamerica through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 900 cross-referenced dictionary entries covering the major peoples, places, ideas, and events related to Mesoamerica. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Mesoamerica.
Author: Walter R.T. Witschey, Clifford T. Brown
Hardcover:
446 pages
Company: Scarecrow Press
(2011-12-23)
ISBN: 081087167X
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Ce livre présente l'étude des figurines en terre cuite de la région Tepecoacuilco-Balsas (Guerrero, Mexique). Celles-ci ont été produites tout au long de la séquence d'occupation de la région, soit de 800 avant notre ère jusqu'à la conquête espagnole. La collection est composée de figurines recueillies lors des travaux de reconnaissance et de fouilles du projet Mezcala (1980-1995). Ce dernier a été dirigé par Louise Iseult Paradis, professeur d'Anthropologie à l'Université de Montréal.
Author: Charlotte Uzu
Paperback:
188 pages
Company: Editions universitaires europeennes
(2010-09-07)
ISBN: 6131532869
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This handsomely illustrated book offers a panoramic view of ancient Mexico, beginning more than thirty thousand years ago and ending with European occupation in the sixteenth century. Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, the book is one of the first to offer a unified vision of Mexico's precolonial past. Typical histories of Mexico focus on the prosperity and accomplishments of Mesoamerica, located in the southern half of Mexico, due to the wealth of records about the glorious past of this region. Mesoamerica was only one of three cultural superareas of ancient Mexico, however, all interlinked by complex economic and social relationships. Tracing the large social transformations that took place from the earliest hunter-gatherer times to the Postclassic states, the authors describe the ties between the three superareas of ancient Mexico, which stretched from present-day Costa Rica to what is now the southwestern United States. According to the authors, these superareas–Mesoamerica, Aridamerica, and Oasisamerica–cannot be viewed as independent entities. Instead, they must be considered as a whole to understand the complex reality of Mexico's past and possible visions of Mexico's future. Alfredo Lopez Austin, Leonardo Lopez Lujan
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368 pages
Company: University of Oklahoma Press
(2001-11-15)
ISBN: 0806132140
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Showcases one of the most outstanding collections of pre-Columbian art ever assembled by a private collector that of G,rard Geiger. With comments from the world's most notable specialists on these civilizations, the publication provides access to this material, for the first time, to the public at large.
Author: Peter D. Joralemon, Justin Kerr, Frances Pratt, Margaret Young-Sanchez
Hardcover:
264 pages
Company: 5Continents
(2008-10-01)
ISBN: 8874390645
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In former times, even more than today, climatic changes had major influences on migratory flows, and consequently on ancient agrarian civilizations, leading to deep economic, social, political and religious chaos, history that we should meditate today to decide our future. This original book insists on the importance of the El Niño climatic phenomenon on the trans-Pacific migratory flows which occured 5000 years ago, and presents comparisons between cultures and civilizations which existed on both sides of the Pacific, in Asia and America, in comparable epochs. Travelers who want to discover pre-Colombian America or ancient Asia, whether they are lovers of archeological sites or passionate about the cultural heirs of old civilizations, will be fascinated by the innovating content of this book. The integration of the latest discoveries in paleo-climatology, anthropology, genetic and even linguistic research, sheds a new light on very old inter-relations between Asia and pre-Colombian America... across the Pacific.
Author: Christian Lemoy
Paperback:
250 pages
Company: Universal Publishers
(2011-01-10)
ISBN: 1599425823
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This is the first comprehensive, one-volume encyclopedia in English devoted to pre-Columbian archaeology of the Mesoamerican culture area. In more than 500 articles by the major experts in the field, this work brings the most recent scholarship to an examination of regional environments and their cultural evolution. Entries range from the familiar and world-renowned archaeological discoveries of Maya and Aztec sites to more recent excavations such as the Sayil archaeological zone in the Yucatan and Teopantecuanitlan in Guerrero. A rich historical and cultural resource on one of the world's six cradles of civilization, this reference is ideal for students, scholars, and prospective travellers.
Hardcover:
992 pages
Company: Routledge
(2000-11-27)
ISBN: 0815308876
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The University Museum has been involved in Mesoamerican archaeology for more than a century. Its collections include material from northern Mexico to Costa Rica and represent all of the major cultures of the region. This guide allows the visitor to gain on-site understanding and the off-site reader to grasp how the Museum's collections fit into current archaeological theory.
The text underscores some of the pan-Mesoamerican aspects of pre-Columbian peoples and the way each group interpreted underlying similarities to create individual customs and beliefs, burials and caches, beauty and adornment.
The guide focuses on the unique aspects of the collection, much of it stemming from the Museum's own excavations, including eight large carved limestone monuments from its historic early excavations at Piedras Negras, Guatemala (1931-39) and Caracol, Belize (1951-53), the only group of original Maya monuments on display in an American museum. The inscriptions on these monuments are reproduced in detail, accompanied by translations and explanations drawing on the latest epigraphic research.
Also included are important pieces from the Guatemala highlands; figurines and carvings collected in the early nineteenth century by the U.S. ambassador to Mexico; as well as significant material from Central America, including the famous carved alabaster vases from the Uloa Valley in Honduras.
Author: Elin C. Danien
Paperback:
112 pages
Company: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
(2002-06-25)
ISBN: 1931707294
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Now in Paperback "A truly marvelous book. Braun welds together fresh insights and impeccable scholarship, and expresses both with clarity and grace . . . while establishing original, now unbreakable connections between the art and architecture of the ancient Americas and the arts of the modern era. I learned something new on every page."-Pete Hamill Until this trailblazing 1993 book, now reissued in paperback, much attention had been given to the connection between modern art and indigenous African forms, while pre-Columbian sources of modern art had been largely unexplored. Correcting this oversight, Barbara Braun offers an in-depth look at Paul Gauguin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Diego Rivera, Henry Moore, and Joaqun Torres Garca and the pre-Columbian forms that provided inspiration for their art, dramatizing the often surprising comparisons in over 300 striking illustrations. Together with an overview of more recent artists who continue to be indebted to ancient American forms and ideas, this "groundbreaking, exciting study fills a major gap in our understanding of modern art."-Publishers Weekly BARBARA BRAUN, scholar, author, and literary agent, has written many articles for such publications as ART-news, Art in America, Connoisseur, the Village Voice, and Publishers Weekly (where she was art publishing correspondent). Her recent books include Arts of the Amazon. She lives in New York City. 311 illustrations, 97 in full color, 9 x 113/4"
Author: Barbara Braun
Paperback:
340 pages
Company: Harry N. Abrams
(2000-11-01)
ISBN: 0810929473
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Mexico comprises 32 diverse states, and this reference is the first to succinctly profile each. Each chapter devoted to one of the states provides a contemporary snapshot of the most important information to know about the state, with essay sections on its characteristics, flora and fauna, cultural groups and languages, history, economy, social customs, arts, noteworthy places, and cuisine with representative recipes. Familiar and noteworthy names in Mexican culture are highlighted in the applicable sections. The format is perfect for students studying Spanish and travelers and general readers wanting a different angle from that provided in guidebooks and more authoritativeness than they can offer. Readers learn about the pulsing metropolis of Mexico City to the jungle isolation found in the Yucatan Peninsula. Considering the huge political, social, and economic focus on Mexico and the number of Mexican immigrants in the United Status today, Americans need to know more about Mexico and the homeland of these new immigrants. Make this one of the sources you recommend to your patrons to get a quick yet substantial feel for the states and their people. A map and photo accompany each chapter, and the volume contains a chronology, glossary, and selected bibliography.
Author: Peter Standish
Hardcover:
480 pages
Company: Greenwood
(2009-03-20)
ISBN: 0313342237
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