Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala / [Gordon R. Willey, general editor and project director].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Willey, Gordon R. (Gordon Randolph), 1913-2002.

Series:

Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University ; v. 13, no. 1-2; v.14, no.1-3; v.15, no. 1-2; v.16.

Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University ; v. 13, no. 1-2; v.14, no.1-3; v.15, no. 1-2; v.16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pottery--Guatemala.

Pottery.

Seibal Site (Guatemala).

Guatemala.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations, maps (some color) (some in pocket) ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1975-

Summary:

Seibal is a major ruin of the southern Maya lowlands, its vast ceremonial center covering several high hills on the banks of the Pasion River in the Guatemalan Department of Peten. In five volumes published over a 15-year period, the archaeological team headed by Gordon R. Willey presents a comprehensive review of their fieldwork from 1964 to 1968 and the results of many years of subsequent data analysis. The volumes also report on explorations in the peripheral settlements outside of the Seibal center and provide a regional view of the evolution of lowland Maya culture from the Middle and Late Preclassic through the Late Classic periods.

Contents:

[v.1] Introduction, the site and its setting / G.R. Willey [et al].

Ceramics / J.A. Sabloff.

[v.2] Artifacts / G.R. Willey.

A Reconnaissance of Cancuen / G. Tourtellot III, J.A. Sabloff, and R. Sharick.

A Brief reconaissance of Itzan / G. Tourtellot III, N. Hammond, and R.M. Rose.

[v.3] Major architecture and caches / A. Ledyard Smith

Analyses of fine paste ceramics / Jeremy A. Sabloff ... [et al.]

[v.4] Peripheral survey and excavation settlement and community patterns / G. Tourtellot III.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies.

Contains:

Smith, A. Ledyard (Augustus Ledyard), 1901-1985. Major architecture and caches. 1982.

Sabloff, Jeremy A. Analyses of fine paste ceramics. 1982.

ISBN:

0873656873

OCLC:

187304817