Palenque (eBook, ePUB)

Recent Investigations at the Classic Maya Center
Redaktion: Marken, Damien B.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Palenque is one of the best known and oldest Mayan archaeological sites. But recently little has been published on the ongoing work here. Marken's collection brings the archaeological record of Palenque up to date. Chapters cover a wide range of topics from architecture to hieroglyphic texts, from broad issues of chronology to settlement to theoretical and methodological issues concerning architectural excavations. Palenque represents an important update of research for any Mayan archaeologist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780759113855
• Artikelnr.: 39419276

Autorenporträt

Damien B. Marken is a member of the mapping team for the Proyecto Arqueol-gico El Pero-WakaO in Guatemala.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Foreword
2 Preface
Part 3 INTRODUCTION
4 Palenque Archaeology: An Introduction
Part 5 CHRONOLOGY
6 Chronological Chart and Overview of Ceramic Developments at Palenque
7 Palenque and Selected Survey Sites in Chiapas and Tabasco: The Preclassic
8 The Construction Chronology of Palenque: Seriation Within an
Architectural Form
Part 9 SETTLEMENT
10 The Problem of Political Integration in the Kingdom of Baak
11 Indicators of Urbanism at Palenque
12 Creating Space through Water Management at the Classic Maya Site of
Palenque, Chiapas
Part 13 ARCHITECTURE AND EXCAVATION
14 Elite Residential Compounds at Late Classic Palenque
15 Following the Traces of Temple XX: Proyecto Grupo de las Cruces 2002
Excavations
16 A House of Cards: Construction, Proportion and Form at Temple XIX,
Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico
Part 17 RELIGION AND RITUAL SPACES
18 Gods and Histories: Mythology and Dynastic Succession at Temples XIX and
XXI at Palenque
19 Ritual Purification and the Ancient Maya Sweatbath at Palenque
20 CONTEMPORARY CONCERNS AND CONCLUSIONS
21 Why Restore Architecture at Palenque?
22 Conclusion: Reconceptualizing the Palenque Polity
23 Index
24 About the Contributors