Registro 79 de 133
Clasificación:
PV 970.00497 C672:7
Título:
The Maya
Edición:
7 ed.
Imp / Ed.:
Nueva York : Thames & Hudson, c2005
Descripción:
272 p. ; 23 cm.
Contenido:
Introduction : The setting, Natural resources, Areas, Periods, Peoples and languages, climate change and its cultural impact ....p.11-31.
The earliest Maya :Early hunters, archaic collectors and cultivators, Early Preclassic villages, The Middle Preclassic expansion, Preclassic Kaminaljuyú, the Maya lowlands ...p.41-55.
The rise of maya civilization :The birth of the calendar, The Hero twins and the creation of the world (box), Izapa and the Pacific Coast, Kaminaljuyú and the Maya highlands, The Petén and the Maya lowlands, The Mirador Basin, San Bartolo, From Preclassic to Classic in the Maya lowlands ...p.58-84.
Classic splendor :The early period : Teotihuacan : military giant, The Esperanza culture, Tzak'ol culture in the Central Area, Copan in the Early Classic, The Northern Area...p.86-108.
Classic splendor : the late period : Classic sites in the Central Area, Copan and Quirigua, Tikal, Calakmul, Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras, and Bonampak, The Petexbatun, Palenque, Comalcalco and Tonina, Classic sites in The Northern Area : Río Bec, Chenes, and Cobá, Arte of the Late Classic....p.110-142.
The Terminal Classic :The great collapse, Seibal and the Putun Maya, Puuk sites in the Northern Area, The Terminal Classic at Chichen Itza, Ek´Bahlam, The Cotzumalguapa problem, The end of an era...p.161-176.
The post-classic :The Toltec invasion and Toltec Chichen Itzá, The Itzá and the city of Mayapán, The independent states of Yucatán, The Central Area in the Post-Classic, Maya Mexican dynasties in the Southern Area, The spanish conquest...p.177-202.
Maya Life on the Eve of the Conquest : The farm and the chase, industry and commerce, the life cycle, Society and politics...p.204-208.
Maya thought and Culture :The universe and the gods, The earth and the gods, The classic Maya underworld, Rites and ritual practitioners, Numbers and the calendar, The Sun and the moon, The celestial wanderers and the stars, The nature of Maya writing, History graven in stone, Maya superstates, History and the supernatural, Name-tagging, spiritual alter-egos.....p.210-241.
The enduring Maya :The new spanish order, The highland Maya, yesterday and today, The Tzotzil Maya or Zinacantan, The Yucatec Maya, The war of the casters, The Maya of Chan K'om, The Lakandon, Uprising in Chiapas, The great terror, The Maya future...p.242-254.
Visiting de Maya Area, Dynastic Rulers of Classic Maya Cities, Further Reading, Sources of Illustrations, Indes....p.256-268.
Notas:
Contiene 186 ilustraciones.

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