Tikal Reports
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Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 1958
Category : CD-ROMs
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Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : Edwin M. Shook
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1934536334
Any consideration of ancient Mesoamerica, and more particularly the lowland Maya region, must include the great site of Tikal, Guatemala. Excavation and research were conducted at Tikal under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the government of Guatemala from 1956 through 1969. The painstaking analysis of the results of those years of fieldwork continues, and the results will be published in a projected total of 39 final reports. This volume includes facsimile editions of the first 11 numbers of the final reports, on various topics relevant to the early excavations at Tikal, carried out by the University Museum. University Museum Monograph 64
Author : Hattula Moholy-Nagy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1934536210
Tikal Report 27 presents artifacts and associated unworked materials recovered by the University of Pennsylvania Museum's Tikal Project of 1956-1969.
Author : Wendy Ashmore
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 1979-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780934718264
Although Quiriguá and its magnificent carved monuments have been recorded and studied by scholars over the past century, little archaeological data were available until recently. From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at this major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala. The aims of the work were to document a basic chronology, to determine the nature and pattern of structures, and to test hypotheses concerning the origins, location, and demise of Quiriguá. University Museum Monograph, 37
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Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 1979
Category : CD-ROMs
ISBN : 193170791X
Author : Marshall J. Becker
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 1999-01-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780924171710
Intensive excavations in settlement areas within greater Tikal generated far more than an understanding of the complex gradations of social classes at this lowland Maya site. Identification of a specific architectural pattern associated with relatively small shrines on the eastern side of certain residential groups, and of a distinctive mortuary program, provides a means by which a "plaza plan" can be predicted using good site maps alone. This discovery enabled archaeologists to predict locations for high-status burials in residential as well as in ceremonial areas. Application of these findings at sites beyond Tikal has been demonstrated to be successful throughout the region and even beyond the Maya heartland. Identification of this "plaza plan" also has led us to recognize nine other architectural group plans at Tikal, providing a model for planning excavation strategies and developing theories of cultural change at Tikal and other Maya sites. University Museum Monograph, 104
Author : H. Stanley Loten
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2002-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781931707398
The Great Maya center of Tikal in Guatemala is famous for its well-preserved architecture. This book presents detailed descriptions of a selection of unexcavated standing structures in the forests around the site center that complement the Museum's Architectural Survey conducted from 1960 to 1970. The survey produced measured drawings—plans, sections, elevations, and details—supplemented by descriptive text and quantitative tables for each structure. All structures are vaulted, and some are major works. TR 23 A is the primary record of important parts of Tikal's urban landscape, with clear, precise, and usable architectural analyses for Mayanists, archaeologists, art historians, architectural historians, urbanists, and those interested in construction techniques and in uses of Maya buildings. University Museum Monograph, 114
Author : Francesco Pellizzi
Publisher : Peabody Museum Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 087365854X
This volume includes the editorial “The absconded subject of Pop,” by Thomas Crow; “Enlivening the soul in Chinese tombs,” by Wu Hung; “On the ‘true body’ of Huineng,” by Michele Matteini; “Apparition painting,” by Yukio Lippit; “Immanence out of sight,” by Joyce Cheng; “Absconding in plain sight,” by Roberta Bonetti; “Ancient Maya sculptures of Tikal, seen and unseen,” by Megan E. O’Neil; “Style and substance, or why the Cacaxtla paintings were buried,” by Claudia Brittenham; “The Parthenon frieze,” by Clemente Marconi; “Roma sotterranea and the biogenesis of New Jerusalem,” by Irina Oryshkevich; “Out of sight, yet still in place,” by Minou Schraven; “Behind closed doors,” by Melissa R. Katz; “Moving eyes,” by Bissera V. Pentcheva; “‘A secret kind of charm not to be expressed or discerned,’” by Rebecca Zorach; “Ivory towers,” by Richard Taws; “Boxed in,” by Miranda Lash; “A concrete experience of nothing,” by William S. Smith; “Believing in art,” by Irene V. Small; “Repositories of the unconditional,” by Gabriele Guercio; “From micro/macrocosm to the aesthetics of ruins and waste-bodies,” by Jeanette Zwingenberger; “Are shadows transparent?” by Roberto Casati; “Invisibility of the digital,” by Boris Groys; “Des formes et des catégories,” by Remo Guidieri; and “Further comments on ‘Absconding,’” by Francesco Pellizzi.
Author : Carlton S. Coon
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 1968-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780934718233
Excavations at Yengema Cave, near the edge of the tropical rainforest of eastern Sierra Leone. Artifacts uncovered date from the West African Neolithic Period. University Museum Monograph, 31
Author : Elizabeth Mann
Publisher : Mikaya Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 193141405X
A history of the Maya Indians in the city of Tikal, founded in 800 B.C.