Record details

• ISBN: 0292732600
• ISBN: 9780292732605
• Physical Description: 2 volumes (viii, 1084 pages) : illustrations ; 28 cm.
• Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1965.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 991-1028) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

V.2: Archaeological synthesis of the Guatemalan highlands; Settlement patterns of the Guatemalan highlands / Stephan F. Borhegyi -- Architecture of the Guatemalan highlands / A. Ledyard Smith -- Pottery of the Guatemalan highlands / Robert L. Rands and Robert E. Smith -- Preclassic pottery figurines of the Guatemalan highlands / Alfred V. Kidder -- Classic and postclassic pottery figurines of the Guatemalan highlands / Robert L. Rands -- Artifacts of the Guatemalan highlands / Richard B. Woodbury -- Archeological survey of the Pacific Coast of Guatemala / Edwin M. Shook -- Archaeological survey of the Chiapas Coast, Highlands, and Upper Grijalva Basin / Gareth W. Lowe and J. Alden Mason

Sculpture of the Guatemala-Chiapas highlands and Pacific slopes, and associated hieroglyphs; Summary of preconquest ethnology of the Guatemala-Chiapas highlands and Pacific slopes / S.W. Miles -- Archaeology and prehistory in the Northern Maya lowlands: an introduction / E. Wyllys Andrews -- Archaeological synthesis of the Southern Maya lowlands / J. Eric S. Thompson -- Prehistoric settlement patterns in the Maya lowlands / Gordon R. Willey and William R. Bullard, Jr. -- Architecture of the Maya lowlands / Harry E. D. Pollock -- Tombs and Funerary Practices of the Maya lowlands / Alberto Ruz Lhuillier

Caches and offertory practices of the Maya lowlands / William R. Coe -- Sculpture and major arts of the Maya lowlands / Tatiana Proskouriakoff -- Pottery of the Maya lowlands / Robert E. Smith and James C. Gifford -- Pottery figurines of the Maya lowlands / Robert L. Rands and Barbara C. Rands

V.3: Jades of the Maya lowlands / Robert L. Rands -- Garments and textiles of the Maya lowlands / Joy Mahler -- Artifacts of the Maya lowlands / William R. Coe / Calendrics of the Maya lowlands / Linton Satterthwaite -- Maya Hieroglyphic writing / J. Eric S. Thompson -- Lowland Maya native society at Spanish contact / Ralph L. Roys -- Archaeological synthesis of southern Veracruz and Tabasco / Michael D. Coe -- Monumental sculpture of southern Veracruz and Tabasco / Matthew W. Stirling -- Olmec style and its distribution -- Michael D. Coe -- Olmec region at Spanish conquest / France V. Scholes and Dave Warren -- Archaeological synthesis of Oaxaca / Ignacio Bernal

Preclassic and Classic architecture of Oaxaca / Jorge R. Acosta -- Architecture in Oaxaca after the end of Monte Alban / Ignacio Bernal -- Sculpture and mural painting of Oaxaca / Alfonso Caso -- Ceramics of Oaxaca / Alfonso Caso and Ignacio Bernal -- Lapidary work, goldwork and copperwork from Oaxaca; Zapotec writing and calendar; Mixtec writing and calendar / Alfonso Caso -- Zapotec and Mixtec at Spanish contact / Ronald Spores

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