university of texas press in the maw of the earth monster studies of mesoamerican ritual cave use feb 2005

... theUnderworld,two of which are throughcaves: the north entrance by the ‘ cave of thewinds,’’ which is the access to theworld of the dead; and the south entrance, Atotonican, a hot spring at the back of a cave where ... been a ritual offering in Mexico. On May 3, at Atenxoxola, at another cave, there are festivities for the Holy Cross that include a rite of passa...

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... a prominent American museum. There was a significant policy change in these years, which indicated the growing involvement of the United States in the world of the 1920s. In the prewar years, the State Department ... archaeologists in the region, and in so doing hastened processes of change in unimagined and unintended ways. A comparison of the accounts of...

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... 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 the growth of the tree rings com- prising the wood. The ... clay-quarrying operations. The GPR-produced map of the site illustrates the preference of the Cerén inhabitants for building their structures on the north flank...

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... SIGNS OF THE INKA KHIPU / sheet 29 of 216 SIGNS OF THE INKA KHIPU Tseng 2003.3.5 06:52 6778 Urton / SIGNS OF THE INKA KHIPU / sheet 13 of 216 SIGNS OF THE INKA KHIPU BINARY CODING IN THE ANDEAN ... 1 Memory,Writing, and Record Keeping in the Inka Empire 1 Chapter 2 Theory and Methods in the Study of Khipu Binary Coding 37 Chapter 3 The Physical Components...

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... knowledge, giving the benefit of insight into the vulnerability of the ancient kingdoms—which had clear implications for the present age. Martin’s painting was inspired by the publication of the book Memoir ... become the subject of no less than twelve ambitious dramatic poems and nineteen paintings in Britain alone. 33 In 1828 Martin exhibited The Fall of Nine...

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... that profoundly shaped the film’s possible meanings. Through a series of case studies analyzing the use of specific pop songs in the film, in- cluding Marianne Faithfull’s version of The Ballad of ... examines the meaning of the making of Brad Pitt, first by Thelma & Louise and later by the accumulation of his film roles and extracinematic exploits. Fuchs use...

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... images in this work, including the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (Harvard University) , the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc., the Penn Museum (University of ... meaning of the journey of the hero twins in search of their father [as mentioned in the Popol Vuh]. In addition to vengeance, their mission is to resurr...

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... no formal investigations were carried out to verify the origins of the ruins until the University of Texas excavations in the 1990s. As a result, the first step in our examination of the site ... appearance of Ara- nama groups in the vicinity of the Guadalupe River in combination with the archaeological record supports the theory that these groups are...

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... annexed to the southern end of the complex.  e variability in tomb types; the size, location, and visibility of these tombs; the number of individuals buried within them; and the quantity ... prehistorians of his time, he continued to argue for an eastern origin of the plaques. Plaque studies and indeed the study of the Late Neolithic of the Iberian Penin...

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... know from the sources regarding the Etrusca disciplina. In the story of Tages, Tarchon taught the other principes to use the disci- plina in their own cities, and they in turn handed down the lore ... for the transmission of the prophecy. What were the teachings of Tages? Cicero says that they pertained to haruspicina, that is, the interpretation of thewill...

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