Description |
695 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 31 cm |
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Note |
"First published on the occasion of the exhibition Maya, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 6. IX.1998 - 16.V.1999"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
The rediscovery of a civilization / Mercedes de la Garza -- A brief history of archaeological exploration / Ian Graham -- Vegetation of Maya Region / Arturo omez-Pompa -- Ancient Maya civilization in space and time / Jeremy A. Sabloff -- The Maya and their Olmec neighbors -- Tomás Pérez Suárez -- Maya frontiers / Giuseppe Orefici -- The Maya city / Enrique Nalda -- Maya architecture / Antonio Benavides C. -- Maya daily labors : a history in lower case / Mario Humberto Ruz -- Maya writing / Maricela Ayala Falcón -- Calendrical cycles and astronomy / Victoria R. Bricker, Harvey M. Bricker -- The Maya codices / Thomas A. Lee Whiting -- Maya Cosmogony / Enrique Florescano -- Maya gods / Mercedes de la Garza -- Portable objects / Clemency Chase Coggins -- Classic Maya painted ceramics and the stories they tell / Dorie Reents-Budet -- Sculpture and murals of the Usumacinta Region / Merle Greene Robertson -- The highlands of Guatemala and Chiapas / Zoila Rodríguez Girón, J. Héctor Paredes G. -- Dynastic history and politics of the classic Maya / David Stuart -- Copán : art, science and dynasty / Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle -- Archaeology of the Central Lowland Mayas : Tikal / Héctor L. Escobedo, Juan Antonio Valdés -- The metropolis of Calakmul Campeche / Ramón Carrasco V. -- Jaina : its funerary art / Román Piña Chán -- Uxmal and the Puuc zone : monumental architectural scuppture facades and political power in the terminal classic period / Jeff Karl Kowalski -- Contacts with Central Mexico and the transition to the Postclassic : Chichén Itzá in central Yucatán / Peter J. Schmidt -- Navigation and trade on the eastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula / Rocía González de la Mata, Anthony P. Andrews -- Political organization of the Yucatán Mayas during the eleventh and sixteenth centuries / Sergio Quezada -- The conquest of the Mayas of Yucatán and Maya Resistance during the Spanish colonial period / Grant D. Jones -- The Mayas in modern times / Jan de Vos. |
Summary |
Looks at Mayan civilization, including Mayan architecture, astronomy, history, mathematics, politics, religion, commerce, navigation, sculpture, and handicrafts. |
Subject |
Mayas -- History -- Exhibitions.
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Mayas -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions.
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Maya art -- Exhibitions.
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Maya architecture -- Exhibitions.
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Central America -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. (OCoLC)fst00810745
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Maya architecture. (OCoLC)fst01012695
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Maya art. (OCoLC)fst01012698
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Mayas. (OCoLC)fst01012775
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Mayas -- Antiquities.
(OCoLC)fst01012778
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Central America. (OCoLC)fst01244535
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Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Added Author |
Schmidt, Peter J., editor.
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Garza, Mercedes de la, editor.
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Nalda, Enrique, editor.
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Palazzo Grassi, host institution.
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ISBN |
0847821293 |
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9780847821297 |
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8845237990 |
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9788845237997 |
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