New perspectives on human sacrifice and ritual body treatments in ancient Maya society
| Körperschaft: |
Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Cucina, Andrea, 1966-
Tiesler, Vera |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York :
Springer,
2007.
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| Umfang/Format: |
x, 319 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology.
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| ISBN: | 0-387-48870-7 9780387488707 |
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| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Mexiko |
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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.
