"Fitzsimmons is the first to attempt to survey the entire corpus of
Lowland Maya hieroglyphic texts, iconography, and archaeological
site documentation relating to royal death, burial, and afterlife.
It is an ambitious undertaking, but Fitzsimmons rises to the
challenge and has produced a book that makes a lasting contribution
to Maya archaeology." --Patricia A. McAnany, Boston University and
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of Living
with the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society
Like their regal counterparts in societies around the globe,
ancient Maya rulers departed this world with elaborate burial
ceremonies and lavish grave goods, which often included ceramics,
red pigments, earflares, stingray spines, jades, pearls, obsidian
blades, and mosaics. Archaeological investigation of these burials,
as well as the decipherment of inscriptions that record Maya
rulers' funerary rites, have opened a fascinating window on how the
ancient Maya envisaged the ruler's passage from the world of the
living to the realm of the ancestors.
Focusing on the Classic Period (AD 250-900), James Fitzsimmons
examines and compares textual and archaeological evidence for rites
of death and burial in the Maya lowlands, from which he creates
models of royal Maya funerary behavior. Exploring ancient Maya
attitudes toward death expressed at well-known sites such as Tikal,
Guatemala, and Copan, Honduras, as well as less-explored
archaeological locations, Fitzsimmons reconstructs royal mortuary
rites and expands our understanding of key Maya concepts including
the afterlife and ancestor veneration.
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