Handbook of Middle American Indians. Volumes 2 and 3 : Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica / Robert Wauchope and Gordon R. Willey, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wauchope, Robert, Author.

Contributor:

Willey, Gordon R., editor.

Wauchope, Robert, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Central America--Antiquities.

Central America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1,084 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2015.

Summary:

Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica comprises the second and third volumes in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). The volume editor is Gordon R. Willey (1913–2002), Bowditch Professor of Mexican and Central American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Volumes Two and Three, with more than 700 illustrations, contain archaeological syntheses, followed by special articles on settlement patterns, architecture, funerary practices, ceramics, artifacts, sculpture, painting, figurines, jades, textiles, minor arts, calendars, hieroglyphic writing, and native societies at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Guatemala highlands, the southern Maya lowlands, the Pacific coast of Guatemala, Chiapas, the upper Grijalva basin, southern Veracruz, Tabasco, and Oaxaca. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

GENERAL EDITOR'S NOTE

1. Archaeological Synthesis of the Guatemalan Highlands

2. Settlement Patterns of the Guatemalan Highlands

3. Architecture of the Guatemalan Highlands

4. Pottery of the Guatemalan Highlands

5. Preclassic Pottery Figurines of the Guatemalan Highlands

6. Classic and Postclassic Pottery Figurines of the Guatemalan Highlands

7. Artifacts of the Guatemalan Highlands

8. Archaeological Survey of the Pacific Coast of Guatemala

9. Archaeological Survey of the Chiapas Coast, Highlands, and Upper Grijalva Basin

10. Sculpture of the Guatemala-Chiapas Highlands and Pacific Slopes, and Associated Hieroglyphs

11. Summary of Preconquest Ethnology of the Guatemala-Chiapas Highlands and Pacific Slopes

12. Archaeology and Prehistory in the Northern Maya Lowlands: an Introduction

13. Archaeological Synthesis of the Southern Maya Lowlands

14. Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Maya Lowlands

15. Architecture of the Maya Lowlands

16. Tombs and Funerary Practices in the Maya Lowlands

17. Caches and Offertory Practices of the Maya Lowlands

18. Sculpture and Major Arts of the Maya Lowlands

19. Pottery of the Maya Lowlands

20. Pottery Figurines of the Maya Lowlands

21. Jades of the Maya Lowlands

22. Garments and Textiles of the Maya Lowlands

23. Artifacts of the Maya Lowlands

24. Calendrics of the Maya Lowlands

25. Maya Hieroglyphic Writing

26. Lowland Maya Native Society at Spanish Contact

27. Archaeological Synthesis of Southern Veracruz and Tabasco

28. Monumental Sculpture of Southern Veracruz and Tabasco

29. The Olmec Style and its Distributions

30. The Olmec Region at Spanish Contact

31. Archaeological Synthesis of Oaxaca

32. Preclassic and Classic Architecture of Oaxaca

33. Architecture in Oaxaca after the End of Monte Alban

34. Sculpture and Mural Painting of Oaxaca

35. Ceramics of Oaxaca

36. Lapidary Work, Goldwork, and Copperwork from Oaxaca

37. Zapotec Writing and Calendar

38. Mixtec Writing and Calendar

39. The Zapotec and Mixtec at Spanish Contact

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 26, 2018).

ISBN:

1-4773-0656-0

OCLC:

1286806373