university of texas press death and the classic maya kings jan 2009
university of texas press death and the classic maya kings jan 2009
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Table . Death and Burial Dates of Classic Maya Rulers
Table . “Founders” of the Classic Maya Lowlands
Table . Reentered Royal Tombs of the Classic Maya Lowlands
Table . Death and Accession ... to enter the afterlife. e feast, he observed,
marked the end of this period and the celebration of the soul’s arrival into the
land o...
university of texas press negotiating for the past archaeology nationalism and diplomacy in the middle east 1919-1941 jul 2007
... Yahya, and the
anonymous readers chosen by the Universityof Texas Press. My colleague
10 Negotiating for the Past
excavations in their own homelands. Turkey and Egypt led the way, and
by the late ... in the various peoples of the Middle East, especially the
Arabs, Persians, and Turks, and an appreciation for the many parallels in
their histories.
Other works h...
university of texas press heraldry for the dead memory identity and the engraved stone plaques of neolithic iberia sep 2008
... Pen-
insula prior to the period of the engraved plaques as well as the social and po-
litical landscape of the peninsula during their use. Material culture helps us to
understand the social and cultural ... complex.
e variability in tomb types; the size, location, and visibility of these tombs;
the number of individuals buried within them; and the quantity...
university of texas press reclaiming a plundered past archaeology and nation building in modern iraq jan 2006
... Babylon,
Ashur, and Samarra. It thus contained some of the earliest pieces of
the human endeavor, whether of art, writing, or agricultural tools. The
actual scale of the destruction of the National ... in the middle of the
nineteenth century, he described its landscape as the plain to which
the Jew and Gentile alike look as the cradle of their race.”
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university of texas press thelma & louise live the cultural afterlife of an american film nov 2007
... sweep of the American West, situating the personal develop-
ment of the characters into the visual iconography of the American cine -
ma and history. In Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey and ... critics of the film. In the film, after exuberant expressions
of agency and mobility, the women are driven to their deaths, hunted to the
brink by social forces i...
university of texas press before the volcano erupted the ancient cerén village in central america mar 2002
... are the dated event and the
target event. The dated event is the event dated by
chronometric means. For the Cerén samples, the
dated events are the death of the grass used for roof-
ing thatch and ... 1995a).
The most striking feature of the buried TBJ sur-
face is the variation in topography across the site
and the intricacy of the buried Classic P...
university of texas press in the maw of the earth monster studies of mesoamerican ritual cave use feb 2005
... miles to
the east of thevillage lies the Gulf of Mexico .The climate of the region between
the mountains and the Gulf Coast is tropical and humid, supporting the north-
ernmost reach of tropical ... vehicle of these offerings, the people hoped to remove
the obstacles placed there by the activities of the rich and to restore the benefits
intrinsic to the...
university of texas press signs of the inka khipu binary coding in the andean knotted-string records aug 2003
... sufficed to report the quantities of the goods in question.
The nature of these products was often obvious from the type of nu-
merical signs employed Attheendofthetext, the name of the
Tseng 2003.3.5 ... the khipu
records:
theyhadaverycunningmethod of counting by strings of wool
and knots, the wool being of different colours. They call them quipus,
and they ar...
university of texas press the religion of the etruscans feb 2006
... version of their papers, taking into account the con-
tributions of others.
The table of contents for TheReligionoftheEtruscansre-
veals the range of topics. The aim is to be systematic and
comprehensive. ... (1) the prevalence of couples and ‘‘dyads,’’
(2) the importance of mothers, (3) representations of scenes
of the birth of gods, with related midwives...
university of texas press the teotihuacan trinity the sociopolitical structure of an ancient mesoamerican city dec 2007
... forehead, and the distinctive fangs of
the noseplaque appear below his nose. Just like
the Olmec and Maya kings, the Portico 2 indi-
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the legacy of Classical Greece and the ... goddess on the
Teocalli, Tenochtitlan 157
8.12 Southerly view of the Plaza of the
Moon 159
8.13 Plan of the Building of the Altars 160
8.14 Calendr...