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Encounter with the Plumed Serpent
The Mixtec, or the people of Nuu Savi (Nation of the Rain God), one of the major civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica, made their home in the highlands of Oaxaca, where they …
The Social Experience of Childhood in Ancient Mesoamerica
The first book to focus on children in ancient Mesoamerica, this vital reference offers a key methodological guide for archaeologists studying children and their roles not only in …
The Lords of Lambityeco
The Valley of Oaxaca was unified under the rule of Monte Alban until its collapse around AD 800. Using findings from John Paddock's long-term excavations at Lambityeco from 1961 to …
Stone Houses and Earth Lords
This heavily illustrated compilation of current scholarship on cave archaeology in the Maya lowlands is the first dedicated to the subject and yields key insights into Maya ritual …
Fanning the Sacred Flame
Fanning the Sacred Flame: Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson contains twenty-two original papers in tribute to H. B. "Nick" Nicholson, a pioneer of Mesoamerican …
Mesoamerican Ritual Economy
Scholars examine the extent to which economic processes were driven by and integrated with religious ritual in ancient Mesoamerica. The contributors explore how traditional rituals …
Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community
How and why do ceramics and their production change through time? This is a unique ethno-archaeological study that attempts to answer these questions by tracing social change among …
In the Realm of Nachan Kan
Kan opens a window on Post-classic Maya patterns of cultural development and organisation through a close examination of the small rural island of Laguna de On, a location that was …
Maya Worldviews at Conquest
This book examines Maya culture and social life just prior to contact and the effect the subsequent Spanish conquest, as well as contact with other Mesoamerican cultures, had on …
After Monte Albán
Reveals the richness and interregional relevance of Post-classic transformations in the area now known as Oaxaca, which lies between Central Mexico and the Maya area and, as …