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Title The Carnegie Maya III : Carnegie Institution of Washington notes on Middle American archaeology and ethnology, 1940-1957 / compiled and with an introduction by John M. Weeks
Published Boulder : University Press of Colorado, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 614 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Introduction -- Preface -- Notes on Middle American Archaeology and Ethnology -- Clay Heads from Chiapas, Mexico -- Pottery from Champerico, Guatemala -- The Ruins of Culuba, Northeastern Yucatan -- The Missing Illustrations of the Pomar Relación -- An Ethnological Note from Cilvituk, Southern Campeche -- The Prototype of the Mexican Codices Telleriano-Remensis and Vaticanus A -- Observations on Glyph G of the Lunar Series -- A New Pottery Style from the Department of Piura, Peru
Archaeological Specimens from Yucatan and GuatemalaThe Payment of Tribute in the Codex Mendoza -- A Note on Aztec Chronology -- Representations of Tezcatlipoca at Chichen Itza -- A Theory of Maya tš-Sounds -- A Reconnaissance on Isla de Sacrificios, Veracruz, Mexico -- Pottery from the Pacific Slope of Guatemala -- Spindle Whorls from Chichen Itza, Yucatan -- Some Sculptures from Southeastern Quezaltenango, Guatemala -- The Initial Series of Stela 14, Piedras Negras, Guatemala, and a Date on Stela 19, Naranjo, Guatemala
Representations of Tlalchitonatiuh at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, and at El Baul, EscuintlaMaya Epigraphy: Directional Glyphs in Counting -- Notes on Sculpture and Architecture at Tonala, Chiapas -- Maya Epigraphy: A Cycle of 819 Days -- The Periods of Tribute Collection in Moctezuma�s Empire -- Notes on Glyph C of the Lunar Series at Palenque -- A Figurine Whistle Representing a Ball Game Player -- Notes on a West Coast Survival of the Ancient Mexican Ball Game -- Animal-Head Feet and a Bark-Beater in the Middle Usumacinta Region
New Photographs and the Date of Stela 14, Piedras NegrasGrooved Stone Axes from Central America -- A Vase from Sanimtaca, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala -- A Human-Effigy Pottery Figure from Chalchuapa, El Salvador -- A Preconquest Tomb on the Cerro del Zapote, El Salvador -- A Tentative Identification of the Head Variant for Eleven -- A Possible Lunar Series on the Leyden Plate -- Stucco Decoration of Early Guatemala Pottery -- Certain Pottery Vessels from Copan -- Archaeological Specimens from Guatemala -- Jottings on Inscriptions at Copan
The Dating of Seven Monuments at Piedras NegrasArchaeological Finds near Douglas, British Honduras -- The Vienna Dictionary -- Ixtla Weaving at Chiquilistlan, Jalisco -- Worked Gourds from Jalisco -- The Graphic Style of the Tlalhuica -- Variant Methods of Date Recordings in the Jatate Drainage, Chiapas -- The Venus Calendar of the Aztec -- An Inscription on a Jade Probably Carved at Piedras Negras -- Costumes and Wedding Customs at Mixco, Guatemala -- Combinations of Glyphs G and F in the Supplementary Series -- Moon Age Tables
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 594-605) and index
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Subject Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Archaeology -- History
SUBJECT Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Archaeology fast
Subject Mayas -- Mexico -- Antiquities
Mayas -- Central America -- Antiquities
Ethnological expeditions -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
Archaeological expeditions -- Central America -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Antiquities
Archaeological expeditions
Ethnological expeditions
Mayas -- Antiquities
SUBJECT Mexico -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084538
Central America -- Antiquities
Subject Central America
Mexico
Genre/Form Electronic book
History
Form Electronic book
Author Weeks, John M.
ISBN 9781607320616
1607320614
Other Titles Carnegie Maya 3
Carnegie Maya three