Entrée principale:

Ferguson, William M.

Titre et auteur:

Maya ruins in Central America in color : Tikal, Copán, and Quiriguá / William M. Ferguson and John Q. Royce ; foreword by Linda Schele.

Édition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©1984.

Description:

x, 387 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-381) and index.
An introduction to the classic Maya -- Maya antecedents -- The Olmec connection -- Maya history -- Classic period -- Classic Maya collapse -- Postclassic period -- Physical appearance -- Agriculture -- Commoner food, housing, and clothing -- Tools -- New evidence relating to the life-style of the classic Maya lords -- Sources of information concerning the classic Maya -- Classic Maya sacrifice and bloodletting -- Ball game -- Commerce and trade -- Government and society -- Feudalism -- Warfare -- Deities and myths -- Origins of Maya symbolism -- Cosmology -- The hero twins, myth of the underworld -- Numeration, and the computation of time -- Astronomy -- Hieroglyphic writing -- Recent discoveries at the cave of Naj Tunich (Stone House) -- Tikal area -- Copan area -- Quirigua area -- Architecture -- Ceramics, stratigraphy, and carbon-14 testing as archaeological tools.
Dust jacket.

Résumé:

"Of the many Maya sites in Central America, none can compare with the tropical beauty and architecture grandeur of Tikal, Copán, and Quiriguá. This book focuses on these three sites because, during the halcyon days of the Classic Maya, A.D. 250 to 900, they were the great centers of religious ceremony, of political and commercial activity, and of residence and power of the kings and nobles."--Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0826306888
9780826306883

Sujet:

Mayas Antiquities.
Indians of Central America Antiquities.
Mayas Antiquités.
Peuples autochtones Amérique centrale Antiquités.
Antiquities.
Architektur
Baudenkmal
Bildband
Maya
Sculpture maya Indiens d'Amérique Antiquités.
Indiens d'Amérique Indiens d'Amérique Antiquités.
Indigenous peoples Central America Antiquities
Central America Antiquities.
Amérique centrale Antiquités.
Central America.
Tikal
Copán
Amérique centrale Antiquités Indiens d'Amérique Antiquités.

Classification/genre:

Government publications United States.
Quiriguá

Vedettes secondaires:

Royce, John Q.
Schele, Linda

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 271773
Cote: BIB 205015
Statut: Disponible