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Images from the Underworld - Naj Tunich and the Tradition of Maya Cave Painting (Paperback)
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Images from the Underworld - Naj Tunich and the Tradition of Maya Cave Painting (Paperback)
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In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance
to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten,
Guatemala. One of the world's few deep caves that contain rock art,
Naj Tunich features figural images and hieroglyphic inscriptions
that have helped to revolutionize our understanding of ancient Maya
art and ritual. In this book, Andrea Stone takes a comprehensive
look at Maya cave painting from Preconquest times to the Colonial
period. After surveying Mesoamerican cave and rock painting sites
and discussing all twenty-five known painted caves in the Maya
area, she focuses extensively on Naj Tunich. Her text analyzes the
images and inscriptions, while photographs and line drawings
provide a complete visual catalog of the cave art, some of which
has been subsequently destroyed by vandals. This important new body
of images and texts enlarges our understanding of the Maya view of
sacred landscape and the role of caves in ritual. It will be
important reading for all students of the Maya, as well as for
others interested in cave art and in human relationships with the
natural environment.
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