A forest of kings : the untold story of the ancient Maya / Linda Schele and David Freidel ; color photographs by Justin Kerr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schele, Linda, author.

Freidel, David A., author.

Contributor:

William Morrow and Company, publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayas--Kings and rulers.

Mayas.

Mayas--History.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[2], 542 pages, [16] pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), maps, facsimiles ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc, [1990]

Summary:

Using data from art and archaeology, this book provides the public with the first glimpse of the just-deciphered history of the Classic Maya. A retelling of the doings of kings and conquerors in Central America more than 1,000 years ago.

Contents:

Time travel in the jungle

Sacred space, holy time, and the Maya world

Cerros : the coming of kings

A war of conquest : Tikal against Uaxactún

Star wars in the Seventh Century

The children of the First Mother : family and dynasty at Palenque

Bird-jaguar and the Cahalob

Copán : the death of first dawn on Macaw Mountain

Kingdom and empire at Chichén Itzá

The end of a literate world and its legacy to the future

Back to the beginning

Glossary of gods and icons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [509]-532) and index.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Schimmel Collection copy has laid in newspaper clipping from an unidentified publication with review of this work by L. Elisabeth Beattie and newspaper clipping from The New York times (14 November 1989, page C15) with headline: Guatemalan find alters theories on Mayans.

ISBN:

0688074561

OCLC:

21295769