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This volume considers the significance of stone monuments in
Preclassic Mesoamerica, focusing on the period following the
precocious appearance of monumental sculpture at the Olmec site of
San Lorenzo and preceding the rise of the Classic polities in the
Maya region and Central Mexico. By quite literally placing
sculptures in their cultural, historical, social, political,
religious, and cognitive contexts, the seventeen contributors
utilize archaeological and art historical methods to understand the
origins, growth, and spread of civilization in Middle America. They
present abundant new data and new ways of thinking about sculpture
and society in Preclassic Mesoamerica, and call into question the
traditional dividing line between Preclassic and Classic cultures.
They offer not only a fruitful way of rethinking the beginnings of
civilization in Mesoamerica, but provide a series of detailed
discussions concerning how these beginnings were dynamically
visualized through sculptural programming during the Preclassic
period.
Based on the comprehensive study of one of the most important
collections of Maya art in the United States, Ancient Maya Art at
Dumbarton Oaks is a scholarly introduction to one of the great
traditions of sculpture and painting in ancient America.
This volume brings together a wide spectrum of new approaches to
ancient Maya studies in an innovative exploration of how the
Preclassic and Classic Maya shaped their world. Moving beyond the
towering temples and palaces typically associated with the Maya
civilization, contributors present unconventional examples of
monumental Maya landscapes. Featuring studies from across the
central Maya lowlands, Belize, and the northern and central Maya
highlands and spanning over 10,000 years of human occupation in the
region, these chapters show how the word "monumental" can be used
to describe natural and constructed landscapes, political and
economic landscapes, and ritual and sacred landscapes. Examples
include a massive system of aqueducts and canals at the Kaminaljuyu
site, a vast arena designed for public spectacle at Chan Chich, and
even the complex realms of Maya cosmology as represented by the
ritual cave at Las Cuevas. By including physical, conceptual, and
symbolic ways monumentality pervaded ancient Maya culture, this
volume broadens traditional understandings of how the Maya
interacted with their environment and provides exciting analytical
perspectives to guide future study. A volume in the series Maya
Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Description of twenty six graves, grave goods, study of skeletons;
comparison with other sites and deductions about the social
organisation. Dates from transition between formativo Tardio y
Classico Temporano'.
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