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

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

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

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