Maya Architecture
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Maya Architecture
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Author : George Oakley Totten
language : en
Publisher: New York : B. Franklin
Release Date : 1973
Maya Architecture written by George Oakley Totten and has been published by New York : B. Franklin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Architecture categories.
An Album Of Maya Architecture
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Author : Tatiana Proskouriakoff
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2013-07-24
An Album Of Maya Architecture written by Tatiana Proskouriakoff and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-24 with History categories.
36 sites from Central America and southern Mexico as they appeared more than a thousand years ago: Temple of the Cross, Palenque; Acropolis and Maya sweat bath, Piedras Negras; more. 95 illustrations.
How The Maya Built Their World
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Author : Elliot M. Abrams
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-06-04
How The Maya Built Their World written by Elliot M. Abrams and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-04 with Social Science categories.
Maya architecture is often described as "massive" and "monumental," but experiments at Copan, Honduras, convinced Elliot Abrams that 300 people could have built one of the large palaces there in only 100 days. In this groundbreaking work, Abrams explicates his theory of architectural energetics, which involves translating structures into volumes of raw and manufactured materials that are then multiplied by the time required for their production and assembly to determine the labor costs of past construction efforts. Applying this method to residential structures of the Late Classic period (A.D. 700-900) at Copan leads Abrams to posit a six-tiered hierarchic social structure of political decision making, ranging from a stratified elite to low-ranking commoners. By comparing the labor costs of construction and other economic activities, he also prompts a reconsideration of the effects of royal construction demands on commoners. How the Maya Built Their World will interest a wide audience in New and Old World anthropology, archaeology, architecture, and engineering.
Album Of Maya Architecture
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Author : Tatiana Proskouriakoff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-01-20
Album Of Maya Architecture written by Tatiana Proskouriakoff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-20 with categories.
Over 1,200 years ago, a magnificent civilization towered above the jungles of Central America and southern Mexico. The highly sophisticated people who inhabited this area had built elaborately carved temples and religious compounds, only to have their achievements disappear over the centuries, destroyed by foreign conquests, earthquakes, floods, and tropical overgrowth. This book, using as background the discoveries of nineteenth-century adventurers, describes the efforts of twentieth-century archeologists who excavated and restored a number of important sites to their former architectural splendor. Today, Mayan architecture attracts not only students of pre-Columbian civilization but also tourists, historians, and anthropologists. This book, through the author's own detailed illustrations, presents 36 sites as they appeared more than a thousand years ago. Facing the illustration of each structure is a documented text of archaelogical finds and a line drawing of existing remains. Among the sites depicted are the shrine in the Temple of the Cross at Palenque; the Acropolis and a Maya sweat bath in Piedras Negras, Guatemala; the hieroglyphic stairway, ball court, and reviewing stand in Copan, Honduras; The Palace at Sayil, Yucatan; The Palace of the Governors, in Uxmal; and The Red House and platforms on the north terrace at Chichen Itza. Archaeological references and a map of the Maya area, showing the location of illustrated sites, complete this imaginative and well-executed study of ancient Mayan architecture. Unabridged republication of the edition published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C., 1946. Introduction. 95 illustrations.
Function And Meaning In Classic Maya Architecture
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Author : Stephen D. Houston
language : en
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Release Date : 1998
Function And Meaning In Classic Maya Architecture written by Stephen D. Houston and has been published by Dumbarton Oaks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Architecture categories.
These articles mark a significant stage in the study of Maya architecture and the society that built it. They represent advances in our understandings of the past, point toward avenues for further studies, and note the distance yet to travel in fully appreciating and understanding this ancient American culture and its material remains.
Architecture And The Origins Of Preclassic Maya Politics
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Author : James Doyle
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-24
Architecture And The Origins Of Preclassic Maya Politics written by James Doyle and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-24 with Architecture categories.
This book examines the emergence of political institutions in Maya civilization through studies of landscape, architecture and material culture.
Maya Architecture
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Author : Kenneth Treister
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Maya Architecture written by Kenneth Treister and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Architecture categories.
A discussion of Maya buildings through the eyes of an architect.
Maya Palaces And Elite Residences
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Author : Jessica Joyce Christie
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Maya Palaces And Elite Residences written by Jessica Joyce Christie and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Maya "palaces" have intrigued students of this ancient Mesoamerican culture since the early twentieth century, when scholars first applied the term "palace" to multi-room, gallery-like buildings set on low platforms in the centers of Maya cities. Who lived in these palaces? What types of ceremonial and residential activities took place there? How do the physical forms and spatial arrangement of the buildings embody Maya concepts of social organization and cosmology? This book brings together state-of-the-art data and analysis regarding the occupants, ritual and residential uses, and social and cosmological meanings of Maya palaces and elite residences. A multidisciplinary team of senior researchers reports on sites in Belize (Blue Creek), Western Honduras (Copan), the Peten (Tikal, Dos Pilas, Aguateca), and the Yucatan (Uxmal, Chichen-Itza, Dzibilchaltun, Yaxuna). Archaeologist contributors discuss the form of palace buildings and associated artifacts, their location within the city, and how some palaces related to landscape features. Their approach is complemented by art historical analyses of architectural sculpture, epigraphy, and ethnography. Jessica Joyce Christie concludes the volume by identifying patterns and commonalties that apply not only to the cited examples, but also to Maya architecture in general.
Robert Stacy Judd
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Author : David Gebhard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Robert Stacy Judd written by David Gebhard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Architecture categories.
Architect Stacy-Judd created a sensation in the 1920s and 1930s when be brought Mayan and Aztec motifs into the architecture of southern California. His life and work are examined here, with numerous examples of his color renderings and photos of many of his buildings. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Maya And Their Central American Neighbors
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Author : Geoffrey E Braswell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-04-16
The Maya And Their Central American Neighbors written by Geoffrey E Braswell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-16 with Social Science categories.
The ancient Maya created one of the most studied and best-known civilizations of the Americas. Nevertheless, Maya civilization is often considered either within a vacuum, by sub-region and according to modern political borders, or with reference to the most important urban civilizations of central Mexico. Seldom if ever are the Maya and their Central American neighbors of El Salvador and Honduras considered together, despite the fact that they engaged in mutually beneficial trade, intermarried, and sometimes made war on each other. The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors seeks to fill this lacuna by presenting original research on the archaeology of the whole of the Maya area (from Yucatan to the Maya highlands of Guatemala), western Honduras, and El Salvador. With a focus on settlement pattern analyses, architectural studies, and ceramic analyses, this ground breaking book provides a broad view of this important relationship allowing readers to understand ancient perceptions about the natural and built environment, the role of power, the construction of historical narrative, trade and exchange, multiethnic interaction in pluralistic frontier zones, the origins of settled agricultural life, and the nature of systemic collapse.