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The place of stone monuments : context, use, and meaning in Mesoamerica's preclassic transition / Julia Guernsey, John E. Clark, and Bárbara Arroyo, editors

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Author:
Guernsey, Julia 1964-  Search this
Clark, John E  Search this
Arroyo, Bárbara  Search this
Physical description:
xviii, 358 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Mexico
Central America
Date:
2010
Contents:
Foreword / Joanne Pillsbury -- Preface / Julia Guernsey, John E. Clark, and Bárbara Arroyo -- Stone monuments and preclassic civilization / John E. Clark, Julia Guernsey, and Bárbara Arroyo -- Iconography of the Nahual : human-animal transformations in preclassic Guerrero and Morelos / Gerardo Gutierrez and Mary E. Pye -- Sculpture from Teopantecuanitlan, Guerrero / Guadalupe Martinez Donjuan -- Zazacatla in the framework of Olmec Mesoamerica / Giselle Canto Aguilar and Victor M. Castro Mendoza -- Stone monuments and earthen mounds : polity and placemaking at Tres Zapotes, Veracruz / Christopher A. Pool -- The architectural setting of Olmec sculpture clusters at La Venta, Tabasco / Rebecca B. González Lauck -- Thinking outside the plaza : varieties of preclassic sculpture in Pacific Guatemala and their potential political significance / Michael W. Love -- Preclassic Olmec and Maya monuments and architecture at Takalik Abaj / Christa Schieber de Lavarreda and Miguel Orrego Corzo -- Rulers, gods, and potbellies : a consideration of sculptural forms and themes from the preclassic Pacific coast and piedmont of Mesoamerica / Julia Guernsey -- Preclassic stone sculpture in the Guatemalan highlands : broken monuments and foreign scripts / Federico Fahsen -- Revisiting Kaminaljuyu Monument 65 in three-dimensional high definition / Travis F. Doering and Lori D. Collins -- Shining stones : observations on the ritual meaning of early Maya stelae / David Stuart
Topic:
Antiquities  Search this
Monuments--Social aspects--History  Search this
Monuments--Political aspects--History  Search this
Stele (Archaeology)  Search this
Indian sculpture  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_950551