Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia
• This volume is both a summation of work that has been carried out over a long period of time and a signpost pointing the way for future studies. Issue... Lees meer

Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia
• Investigations of Maya architecture have been among the chief vehicles for contemplating a great art tradition, the hieroglyphic writing system, and e... Lees meer

Making Value, Making Meaning

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia | nr. 34
• Making Value, Making Meaning: Techné in the Pre-Columbian World adopts the concept of techné as an analytic tool useful for understanding how the prod... Lees meer

Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia | nr. 35
• Epitomizing the radiating sun and perpetuating the cycles of life and time, fire was--and continues to be--a central force in the Mesoamerican cosmos.... Lees meer

The Place of Stone Monuments

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia | nr. 25
• This volume considers the significance of stone monuments in Preclassic Mesoamerica, focusing on the period following the precocious appearance of mon... Lees meer

Archaeology of Formative Ecuador

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia
• No single symposium or volume could do justice to the amount of information now available on Ecuadorian prehistory. This volume and the symposium on w... Lees meer

The Measure and Meaning of Time in Mesoamerica and the Andes

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia | nr. 33
• Westerners think of time as a measure of duration, a metric quantity that is continuous, homogeneous, unchangeable, and never ending--a reality that l... Lees meer

Twin Tollans

• Paperback | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia
• Chichén Itzá and Tula have long been conceived as "twin cities"--paired political capitals that share so many aspects of architectural plan, sculptura... Lees meer

Native Traditions in the Postconquest World

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia
• This volume consists of papers from the 1992 Dumbarton Oaks conference marking the quincentennial of Columbus's landing in the Americas. By directing ... Lees meer

Tombs for the Living

• Paperback | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia
• In the Andes, a long history of research on burial records and burial contexts exists for the purpose of reconstructing cultural affiliation, chronolo... Lees meer

Embattled Bodies, Embattled Places

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia | nr. 32
• With spears and arrows, atl-atls and slings, the people of the New World fought to defend themselves against European invasion and conquest. Over a ce... Lees meer

Teotihuacan

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia
• Teotihuacan was a city of major importance in the Americas between 1 and 550 CE. As one of only two cities in the New World with a population over one... Lees meer

Aztec Imperial Strategies

Frances F Berdan, Richard E Blanton, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Mary G Hodge, Michael E Smith, Emily Umberger

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia
• Papers from the 1986 Summer Seminar, "Empire, Province, and Village in Aztec History." Lees meer

The Art of Urbanism

• Paperback | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia | nr. 23
• The Art of Urbanism explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosm... Lees meer

Past Presented

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia
• Illustrations remain one of the fundamental tools of archaeology, a means by which we share information and build ideas. Often treated as if they were... Lees meer

Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past

• Paperback | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia
• The history of Pre-Columbian collecting is a social and aesthetic history--of ideas, people and organizations, and objects. This richly illustrated vo... Lees meer