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Series Editor: Eric Taladoire (CNRS / Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne)
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La fábrica del prestigio en Mesoamérica
Juliette Testard
The mural paintings of Cacaxtla offer the starting point for a discussion of cultural interactions and the fabrication of prestige. After the disintegration of the Teotihuacán system, this book considers how city-states of the Central Highlands transformed their material culture to construct new political discourses to establish local authority. READ MORE
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The Skyband Group, Copán Honduras
David Webster
The Skyband Group is an impressive elite site in the urban core of Copán, Honduras, which is dominated by the palatial compounds of Maya sub-royal nobles. Such grandees often bore court titles showing that they were clients and officials of kings, but also competitors for political power, especially just before the dynastic collapse around AD 800. READ MORE
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Filiaciones culturales y contactos entre las poblaciones Virú-Gallinazo y Mochica (200 AC – 600 DC, costa norte del Perú)
Alicia Espinosa
This volume documents the Virú-Gallinazo and Mochica pottery traditions to understand both their origins, filiations, and contacts, studying the modes of manufacture of archaeological ceramics discovered at more than nine sites in the region, preserved at the Ministry of Culture of Peru and various Peruvian, French and American museums. READ MORE
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K'awiil: El dios maya del rayo, la abundancia y los gobernantes
Rogelio Valencia Rivera
This study of K'awiil analyses one of the most important deities of the Maya pantheon, and allows us to approach the religious thought of this people, since it is through the myths, rituals and other religious and cultural activities in which a deity participates, that we can try to understand how the Maya conceived their universe. READ MORE
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La industria lítica del núcleo urbano maya de La Blanca, Petén, Guatemala
Ricardo Torres Marzo
The ancient Maya used mainly stone tools, made of either ground stone and chipped stone, to achieve their extraordinary development. This book presents the techno-typological analysis of lithic materials from La Blanca, located in the heart of the Southern Lowlands, which was mainly inhabited during the Late Classic and Terminal Classic periods. READ MORE
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Toniná, una ciudad maya de Chiapas
Judith L. Ruiz González
Toniná was a Mayan city, located between two cultural areas near the Chiapas Highlands. It has been widely proposed that the Maya collapse implied the disappearance and depopulation of many cities; this research addresses the survival of Toniná towards the threshold of the Postclassic. READ MORE
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El Palacio: Historiography and new perspectives on a pre-Tarascan city of northern Michoacán, Mexico
ed. Marion Forest
11 contributions consider legacy and archive data (1896–1995) and results derived from recent archaeological investigations (2012–2017) to present a review and analysis of the chrono-stratigraphy, material culture, urbanism, and economic and ritual practices at El Palacio, northern Michoacán, Mexico, between A.D. 850 and 1521. READ MORE
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Technologie du harponnage sur la côte Pacifique du désert d’Atacama (nord du Chili)
Benjamín Ballester Riesco
Throughout the volume the reader will follow a representation of a marine hunter-gatherer society, a projection deriving from one of its iconic and most important material assets, the harpoon. READ MORE
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La industria lítica bifacial del sitio en cantera Chipana-1
Katherine A. Herrera
The site of Chipana-1 is located in the middle of the Atacama Desert, in the Pampa del Tamarugal, Chile. The site offers a good example to show how past societies adapted to hyper-arid environments, and provides new insights into the early human occupations of South America. READ MORE
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Navigation et installations lacustres dans les hautes terres du Mexique: les cas mexica et tarasque
Alexandra Biar
This research focuses on the practice of lake navigation and specific facilities that are associated with it in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica. Due to the need for a wholistic approach, this research is situated in a multidisciplinary framework that combines archaeology, ethnology and ethnohistory. READ MORE
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The Population of Tikal: Implications for Maya Demography
David Webster
A demographic evaluation of an ancient Mayan citadel which helps to resolve debates about how the Maya made a living, the nature of their socio-political systems, how they created an impressive built environment, and places them in plausible comparative context with what is known about other ancient complex societies. READ MORE
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Ancient Engineering: Selective Ceramic Processing in the Middle Balsas Region of Guerrero, Mexico
Jennifer Meanwell
This volume has two main objectives: establishing a chronology of the Middle Balsas and detailing the region’s pottery production methods. The author posits that pottery intended for different functions was often deliberately made and/or decorated in ways that were chosen to make the vessels more appropriate for their intended functions. READ MORE
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Aportes del enfoque tecnológico a la arqueología precolombina
Catherine Lara
The Cuyes River Valley, Ecuador, located in the Northwest of South America, acts as a transition corridor between the Andean and Amazon regions. This volume attempts to determine the ethnic origin of the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Cuyes valley through the study of ceramics excavated in 2009. READ MORE
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Patrones de asentamiento del Malpaís de Zacapu (Michoacán, México) y de sus alrededores en el Posclásico
Gérald Migeon
Presents the results of the archaeological studies relative to the settlement pattern, realized within the framework of the Michoacán Projects I and III, studying of all the perceptible demonstrations of the prehispanic occupations in the region. READ MORE
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Entre reyes y campesinos
ed. Markus Eberl et al.
Archaeological investigations provide a comprehensive perspective on social dynamics and change in the ancient Mayan capital of Tamarindito. READ MORE
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