Star Gods of the Maya

Susan Milbrath

• Paperback | Engels | Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
• Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintai... Lees meer

Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan and the Heroes of Ancient Oaxaca

Robert Lloyd Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
• In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now... Lees meer

Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community

Allen J Christenson

• Paperback | Engels | Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
• A study of a major piece of modern Mayan religious art. Lees meer

Maya Political Science

Prudence M Rice

• Paperback | Engels | Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
• How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya po... Lees meer

Maya Intellectual Renaissance

Victor D Montejo

• Paperback | Engels | Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
• When Mayan leaders protested the celebration of the Quincentenary of the "discovery" of America and joined with other indigenous groups in the America... Lees meer

The Jaguar Within

Rebecca R Stone

• Hardcover | Engels | Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
• Shamanism--the practice of entering a trance state to experience visions of a reality beyond the ordinary and to gain esoteric knowledge--has been an ... Lees meer

Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents

Rex Koontz

• Hardcover | Engels | Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
• El Tajín, an ancient Mesoamerican capital in Veracruz, Mexico, has long been admired for its stunning pyramids and ballcourts decorated with extensive... Lees meer

Signs of the Inka Khipu

Gary Urton

• Paperback | Engels | Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
• In an age when computers process immense amounts of information by the manipulation of sequences of 1s and 0s, it remains a frustrating mystery how pr... Lees meer

Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms

• Paperback | Engels | Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
• Between AD 900-1600, the native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and ex... Lees meer

Lightning Warrior

Matthew G Looper

• Hardcover | Engels | Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
• The ancient Maya city of Quirigua occupied a crossroads between Copan in the southeastern Maya highlands and the major centers of the Peten heartland.... Lees meer

Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World

Elizabeth A Newsome

• Paperback | Engels | Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
• Assemblies of rectangular stone pillars, or stelae, fill the plazas and courts of ancient Maya cities throughout the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guat... Lees meer

Water and Ritual

Lisa J Lucero

• Paperback | Engels | Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
• In the southern Maya lowlands, rainfall provided the primary and, in some areas, the only source of water for people and crops. Classic Maya kings spo... Lees meer