Stone houses and earth lords : Maya religion in the cave context /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boulder, Colo. :
University Press of Colorado,
[2005]
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| Series: | Mesoamerican worlds.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Religion and role of caves in lowland Maya archaeology / Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady
- Replicating the sacred landscape : the Chen at Muklebal Tzul / Keith M. Prufer and Andrew Kindon
- Caves and artificial caves in late postclassic Maya ceremonial groups / Timothy W. Pugh
- Social power and sacred space at Actun Nak Beh, Belize / Christina T. Halperin
- Pilgrimage and caves on Cozumel / Shankari Patel
- The impact of ritual on ancient Maya economy / James E. Brady
- Scribes and caves in the Maya lowlands / Andrea Stone
- Nikte mo' scattered fire in the Cave of K'ab Chante' : epigraphic and archaeological evidence for cave desecration in ancient Maya warfare / James E. Brady and Pierre R. Colas
- Plants and caves in ancient Maya society / Christopher T. Morehart
- The sweatbath in the cave : a modified passage in Chechem Ha Cave, Belize / Holley Moyes
- An analysis of ancient Maya stalactite breakage at Balam Na Cave, Guatemala / James E. Brady ... [et al.]
- De-fanging the earth monster : speleothem transport to surface sites in the Sibun Valley / Polly A. Peterson, Patricia A. McAnany, and Allan B. Cobb
- Showing the way : the function of three small caves in the Sibun-Manatee Karst / Amalia Kenward
- Human remains in lowland Maya caves : problems of interpretation / Ann M. Scott and James E. Brady
- Mortuary practices of the prehistoric Maya from Caves Branch Rock Shelter, Belize / David M. Glassman and Juan Luis Bonor Villarejo
- Nearer to the gods : rockshelter burials from the Ek Xux Valley, Belize / Julie Mather Saul, Keith M. Prufer, and Frank P. Saul
- A question of sacrifice : classic Maya cave mortuary practices at Barton Creek Cave, Belize / Vanessa A. Owen
- What can the bones really tell us? : the study of human skeletal remains from Cenotes / Vera Tiesler
- Maya cave archaeology : a new look at religion and cosmology / James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer.