New perspectives on human sacrifice and ritual body treatments in ancient Maya society

Körperschaft: Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
Weitere Verfasser: Cucina, Andrea, 1966-
Tiesler, Vera
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Springer, 2007.
Umfang/Format: x, 319 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology.
Schlagworte:
Maya > de
iDAI.gazetteer: Mexiko
Online Zugang: Table of contents only
Publisher description
Inhaltsangabe:
  • New perspectives on human sacrifice and postsacrifical body treatments in ancient Maya society /
  • Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler
  • Funerary or nonfunerary? : new references in identifying ancient Maya sacrificial and postsacrificial behaviors from human assemblages /
  • Vera Tiesler
  • The creation and sacrifice of witches in Classic Maya society /
  • Lisa J. Lucero and Sherry A. Gibbs
  • Empowered and disempowered during the Late to Terminal Classic transition /
  • Eleanor Harrison-Buck, Patricia A. McAnany, and Rebecca Storey
  • Posthumous body treatments and ritual meaning in the Classic period northern Petén /
  • Cecilia Medina Martín and Mirna Sánchez Vargas
  • Human sacrifice in Late Postclassic Maya iconography and texts /
  • Gabrielle Vail and Christine Hernández
  • Skeletons, skulls, and bones in the art of Chichén Itzá /
  • Virgina E. Miller
  • Sacrifice and ritual body mutilation in Postclassical Maya society /
  • Guillermo de Anda Alanís
  • Sacred spaces and human funerary and nonfunerary placements in Champotón, Campeche, during the Postclassic period /
  • Araceli Hurtado Cen ... [et al.]
  • Human sacrificial rites among the Maya of Mayapán /
  • Stanley Serafin and Carlos Peraza Lope
  • Nutrition, lifestyle, and social status of skeletal remains from nonfunerary and "problematical" contexts /
  • Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler
  • Victims of sacrifice /
  • T. Douglas Price ... [et al].
  • The bioarchaeology of Maya sacrifice /
  • Jane E. Buikstra.