Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
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Category : America
Languages : en
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Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Castle McLaughlin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0981885861
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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A ledger book of drawings by Lakota Sioux warriors found in 1876 on the Little Bighorn battlefield offers a rare first-person Native American record of events that likely occurred in 1866–1868 during Red Cloud’s War. This color facsimile edition uncovers the origins, ownership, and cultural and historical significance of this unique artifact.

Author: Samuel Kirkland Lothrop
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258759780
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Memoirs Of The Peabody Museum Of Archaeology And Ethnology, Harvard University, V7. Additional Contributors Are F. Johnson, W. C. Root, R. J. Gettens, And V. G. Mooradian. Foreword By Donald Scott.

Author: William Curtis Farabee
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Author: Clemency Chase Coggins
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477302735
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Chichén Itzá ("mouth of the well of the Itza") was one of the great centers of civilization in prehistoric America, serving between the eighth and twelfth centuries A.D. as a religious, economic, social, and political capital on the Yucatán Peninsula. Within the ancient city there were many natural wells or cenotes. One, within the ceremonial heart of the city, is an impressive natural feature with vertical limestone walls enclosing a deep pool of jade green water some eighty feet below ground level. This cenote, which gave the city its name, became a sacred shrine of Maya pilgrimage, described by one post-Conquest observer as similar to Jerusalem and Rome. Here, during the city's ascendancy and for centuries after its decline, the peoples of Yucatán consulted their gods and made ritual offerings of precious objects and living victims who were thought to receive prophecies. Although the well was described by Bishop Diego de Landa in the late sixteenth century, its contents were not known until the early 1900s when revealed by the work of Edward H. Thompson. Conducting excavations for the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, Thompson recovered almost thirty thousand artifacts, most ceremonially broken and many beautifully preserved by burial in the deep silt at the bottom of the well. The materials were sent to the Peabody Museum, where they remained, unexhibited, for over seventy years. In 1984, for the first time, nearly three hundred objects of gold, jade, copper, pottery, wood, copal, textile, and other materials from the collection were gathered into a traveling interpretive exhibition. No other archaeological exhibition had previously given this glimpse into Maya ritual life because no other collection had objects such as those found in the Sacred Cenote. Moreover, the objects from the Cenote come from throughout Mesoamerica and lower Central America, representing many artistic traditions. The exhibit and this, its accompanying catalog, marked the first time all of the different kinds of offerings have ever been displayed together, and the first time many have been published. Essays by Gordon R. Willey and Linnea H. Wren place the Cenote of Sacrifice and the great Maya city of Chichén Itzá within the larger context of Maya archaeology and history. The catalog entries, written by Clemency Chase Coggins, describe the objects displayed in the traveling exhibition. Some entries are brief descriptive statements; others develop short scholarly themes bearing on the function and interpretation of specific objects. Coggins' introductory essay describes how the objects were collected by Thompson and how the exhibition collection has been studied to reveal the periods of Cenote ritual and the changing practices of offering to the Sacred Cenote.

Author: Teobert Maler
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781397365149
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Excerpt from Explorations in the Department of Peten, Guatemala, Tikal: Report of Explorations for the Museum This report by Mr. Maler completes the series on the explorations which he has carried on for several years under an agreement made with the Peabody Museum. The report is printed without certain plans referred to by Mr. Maler which have not been received from him. This omission is, how ever, supplied by the Museum Expedition of 1910 (see foot-notes on page 10, et In order to use the plans when reading Mr. Maler's report, the two reports are issued under one cover. To further facilitate reference, a table has been prepared (see page vii of No. Giving the names used by Mr. Maler and the corresponding terms used in the report of 1910. A number of measurements were left blank in Mr. Maler's manuscript, and these have been supplied by the Expedition of 1910, all such being given in italic figures. Mr. Maler's reports were written in German, and it is therefore especially unfortunate that he has not returned the proofs of this and also of the two preceding reports published in Volume IV, Number 3 of these Memoirs. However, the translations were carefully made by two German scholars. Editor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Peter G. Stone
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843833840
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Discussion of the issues surrounding the destruction of cultural property in times of conflict has become a key issue for debate around the world. This book provides an historical statement as of 1st March 2006 concerning the destruction of the cultural heritage in Iraq. In a series of chapters it outlines the personal stories of a number of individuals who were - and in most cases continue to be - involved. These individuals are involved at all levels, and come from various points along the political spectrum, giving a rounded and balanced perspective so easily lost in single authored reports. It also provides the first views written by Iraqis on the situation of archaeology in Iraq under Saddam and an overview and contextualisation of the issues surrounding the looting, theft and destruction of the archaeological sites, the Iraqi National museum and the libraries in Baghdad since the war was launched in 2003. Beyond this, it examines our attitudes towards the preservation of cultural and heritage resources and, in particular, the growing political awareness of their importance. Although related to a single conflict, taking place at a specific time in history, the relevance of this work goes far beyond these self-imposed boundaries. PETER STONE is Professor of Heritage Studies and Head of School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University; JOANNE FARCHAKH BAJJALY is a Lebanese archaeologist and Middle East correspondent for the French magazine Archéologia.

Author: Alfred Marston Tozzer
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Category : Guatemala
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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Author: John Howland Rowe
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Category : Cuzco (Peru)
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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