Reinterpreting Prehistory Of Central America
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Reinterpreting Prehistory Of Central America
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Author : Mark Miller Graham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Reinterpreting Prehistory Of Central America written by Mark Miller Graham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
Reinterpreting Prehistory of Central America provides reassessments of the paradigms that have guided - sometimes unconsciously and uncritically - interpretations of ancient Central American society, culture, and art. This volume challenges prevailing notions of Mesoamerica and other intellectual constructs of Central American prehistory, drawing on deconstruction, structuralism, diffusionism, and postprocessual archaeology. Nine chapters by distinguished art historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists from the United States, Costa Rica, and Panama illuminate diverse perspectives on common themes in Central American prehistory, such as the definition of center and periphery, the relation between ethnicity and polychrome ceramic traditions, the cultural meanings of color, and the social reality in mortuary art. A common focus among the authors is the relationship between the so-called high cultures, especially the Maya and their supposedly less-developed neighbors in southern Central America. This volume has more than 150 illustrations. The contributors include Mark Miller Graham, Terence Grieder, Rosemary Joyce, Oscar Fonseca Zamora, Peter S. Briggs, Mary W. Helms, Richard Cooke, Whitney Davis, and Frederick W. Lange.
Prehistoric Structures Of Central America Who Erected Them
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Author : Martin I. Townsend
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-20
Prehistoric Structures Of Central America Who Erected Them written by Martin I. Townsend and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-20 with Fiction categories.
The historical novel "Prehistoric Structures of Central America: Who Erected Them?" seeks to answer a question that has long fascinated many. "It was not a long period after 1492, when the great Italian navigator with his Spanish crew made their first discoveries upon the central portion of America, that the Europeans, who had followed the footsteps of Christopher Columbus, began to fall in with structures of great magnitude and architectural beauty scattered widely throughout Mexico, Guatemala and Yucatan, &c.; and when the conquest of Peru was achieved, artificial highways and water courses were found there, such as could have owed their existence to no people but one with advanced knowledge of science as well as of the arts of civilized life. No people existed then upon this continent capable of doing the work which so astonished the world. Thinking men and dreaming men have, from the earliest of these discoveries, been busying themselves to find out when, and by what people, these early monuments to human efforts were constructed. The author seeks to show the history of these structures which long pre-dated the Christian era.
Paths To Central American Prehistory
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Author : Frederick W. Lange
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Paths To Central American Prehistory written by Frederick W. Lange and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
This landmark volume brings together contributions by some of the most distinguished pioneers of Central American archaeology as well as those of younger scholars from North America, Europe, and Central America. This ambitious work demonstrates the parallel ongoing needs to pursue theoretical and methodological advances while dedicating equal efforts to filling in the blank spaces in the archaeological map of Central America, where even the most basic surveys and chronological sequences are lacking. The contributions represent a range in specialties that include archaeology, precolumbian art history, new analytical techniques, and exploration of unknown geographical areas. Paths to Central American Prehistory covers El Salvador and Honduras through Panama, from the Paleoindian period to the time of the Spanish invasion. It will have wide appeal to Mesoamerican and Central American archaeologists as well as to general readers with a serious interest in the archaeology of the area.
A Brief History Of Central America
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Author : Lynn V. Foster
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2007-01-01
A Brief History Of Central America written by Lynn V. Foster and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Music categories.
Presents a comprehensive history of Central America, including the early pre-Columbian cultures and economic challenges currently being faced.
The Archaeology Of Lower Central America
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Author : Frederick W. Lange
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Archaeology Of Lower Central America written by Frederick W. Lange and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
Prehistoric Structures Of Central America Who Erected Them
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Author : Martin Ingham Townsend
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Prehistoric Structures Of Central America Who Erected Them written by Martin Ingham Townsend and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
The Book Of History South And Central America
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
The Book Of History South And Central America written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with World history categories.
A profusely illustrated summary of world history from an Euro-centric view but in great detail up to the end of World War II.
A Brief History Of Central America
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Author : Lynn V. Foster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
A Brief History Of Central America written by Lynn V. Foster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Central America categories.
A Brief History of Central America, Second Edition explores the history of the Central American isthmus from the pre-Columbian cultures to the contemporary nations that make up the region today: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
Gold And Power In Ancient Costa Rica Panama And Colombia
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Author : Jeffrey Quilter
language : en
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Release Date : 2003
Gold And Power In Ancient Costa Rica Panama And Colombia written by Jeffrey Quilter and has been published by Dumbarton Oaks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
The lands between Mesoamerica and the Central Andes are famed for the rich diversity of ancient cultures that inhabited them. Throughout this vast region, from about AD 700 until the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion, a rich and varied tradition of goldworking was practiced. The amount of gold produced and worn by native inhabitants was so great that Columbus dubbed the last New World shores he sailed as Costa Rica—the "Rich Coast." Despite the long-recognized importance of the region in its contribution to Pre-Columbian culture, very few books are readily available, especially in English, on these lands of gold. Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia now fills that gap with eleven articles by leading scholars in the field. Issues of culture change, the nature of chiefdom societies, long-distance trade and transport, ideologies of value, and the technologies of goldworking are covered in these essays as are the role of metals as expressions and materializations of spiritual, political, and economic power. These topics are accompanied by new information on the role of stone statuary and lapidary work, craft and trade specialization, and many more topics, including a reevaluation of the concept of the "Intermediate Area." Collectively, the volume provides a new perspective on the prehistory of these lands and includes articles by Latin American scholars whose writings have rarely been published in English.
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.