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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826363503321

Titolo

The Carnegie Maya III : Carnegie Institution of Washington notes on Middle American archaeology and ethnology, 1940-1957 / / compiled and with an introduction by John M. Weeks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder [Colo.], : University Press of Colorado, c2011

ISBN

1-60732-061-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (637 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WeeksJohn M

Disciplina

972/.6

Soggetti

Mayas - Mexico - Antiquities

Mayas - Central America - Antiquities

Ethnological expeditions - Mexico - History - 20th century

Archaeological expeditions - Central America - History - 20th century

Mexico Antiquities

Central America Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures; Tables; Introduction; Preface; Notes on Middle American Archaeology and Ethnology; Clay Heads from Chiapas, Mexico; Pottery from Champerico, Guatemala; The Ruins of Culuba, Northeastern Yucatan; The Missing Illustrations of the Pomar Relación; An Ethnological Note from Cilvituk, Southern Campeche; The Prototype of the Mexican Codices Telleriano-Remensis and Vaticanus A; Observations on Glyph G of the Lunar Series; A New Pottery Style from the Department of Piura, Peru; Archaeological Specimens from Yucatan and Guatemala; The Payment of Tribute in the Codex Mendoza

Notes on Sculpture and Architecture at Tonala, ChiapasMaya Epigraphy: A Cycle of 819 Days; The Periods of Tribute Collection in Moctezuma's Empire; Notes on Glyph C of the Lunar Series at Palenque; A Figurine Whistle Representing a Ball Game Player; Notes on a West Coast Survival of the Ancient Mexican Ball Game; Animal-Head Feet and a Bark-Beater in the Middle Usumacinta Region; New Photographs and the Date of Stela 14, Piedras Negras; Grooved Stone Axes from Central America; A Vase from Sanimtaca, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala; A Human-Effigy Pottery



Figure from Chalchuapa, El Salvador

A Preconquest Tomb on the Cerro del Zapote, El SalvadorA Tentative Identification of the Head Variant for Eleven; A Possible Lunar Series on the Leyden Plate; Stucco Decoration of Early Guatemala Pottery; Certain Pottery Vessels from Copan; Archaeological Specimens from Guatemala; Jottings on Inscriptions at Copan; The Dating of Seven Monuments at Piedras Negras; Archaeological Finds near Douglas, British Honduras; The Vienna Dictionary; Ixtla Weaving at Chiquilistlan, Jalisco; Worked Gourds from Jalisco; The Graphic Style of the Tlalhuica

Variant Methods of Date Recordings in the Jatate Drainage, ChiapasThe Venus Calendar of the Aztec; An Inscription on a Jade Probably Carved at Piedras Negras; Costumes and Wedding Customs at Mixco, Guatemala; Combinations of Glyphs G and F in the Supplementary Series; Moon Age Tables; A Second Tlaloc Gold Plaque from Guatemala; Rock Paintings at Texcalpintado, Morelos, Mexico; A Pyrite Mirror from Queretaro, Mexico; Informe sobre la existencia de jugadores de pelota mayas en la cerámica escultórica de Jaina; Un sello cilindrico con barras y puntos

The Inscription on the Altar of Zoomorph O, Quirigua