Copan: The History of an Ancient Maya Kingdom (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930618387 ISBN 13: 9781930618381

Publisher: SAR Press, 2005

Synopsis

This volume collects leading scholarship on one of the most important archaeological complexes in the ancient Maya world. The authors-internationally renowned experts who participated in the long-running Cop*n Acropolis Archaeological Project-address enduring themes in Maya archaeology. In addition to site-specific breakthroughs involving dynastic sequences, epigraphy, and chronologies, these essays explore questions of broad interest to archaeologists and other anthropologists, including state formation, architecture and space, and the relationship between history and archaeology as well as among archaeology, epigraphy, and iconography.

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Review:

"This well-integrated volume presents a complex and nuanced view of elite life within Copan, as historical and humanistic as it is processual, highlighting not only what we do know about this ancient Maya kingdom, but also what we do not." -- T. Kam Manahan

About the Author:

E. Wylly's Andrews is Professor of Archaeology at Tulane University; William Fash is Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University

About this edition

• Publisher: SAR Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1930618387
• ISBN 13: 9781930618381
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Andrews E. Wyllys