Images from the Underworld - Naj Tunich and the Tradition of Maya Cave Painting (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University Of Texas Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1995
First published:	1995
Authors:	Andrea J. Stone
Dimensions:	279 x 216 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-292-72652-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Art of indigenous peoples Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-292-72652-X
Barcode:	9780292726529

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