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Ancient Maya Teeth
A study of Maya dental modification from archaeological sites spanning three millennia. Dental modification was common across ancient societies, but perhaps none were more avid …
The Ancient Future of the Itza
The title of Edmonson's work refers to the Mayan custom of first predicting their history and then living it, and it may be that no other peoples have ever gone so far in this …
Ancient Maya Commoners
Much of what we currently know about the ancient Maya concerns the activities of the elites who ruled the societies and left records of their deeds carved on the monumental …
The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights
2022 PROSE Award Finalist in ClassicsAlthough the era of the Enlightenment witnessed the rise of philosophical debates around benevolent social practice, the origins of European …
Ritual Violence in the Ancient Andes
Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society’s most meaningful religious and symbolic acts. Ritual violence was particularly varied and …
Ancient Architecture of the Southwest
During more than a thousand years before Europeans arrived in 1540, the native peoples of what is now the southwestern United States and northern Mexico developed an architecture …
Ancient Andean Political Economy
For more than two millennia prior to the Spanish conquest, the southern region of the central Andes was home to dozens of societies, ranging from modest chiefdoms to imperial …
Ancient Egyptian Literature
Poetry, stories, hymns, prayers, and wisdom texts found exquisite written expression in ancient Egypt while their literary counterparts were still being recited around hearth fires …
Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru
Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies, as in …
Ancient Egyptian Literature
A beautifully translated collection sampling all the major genres of ancient Egyptian literature.Poetry, stories, hymns, prayers, and wisdom texts found exquisite written …