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1 online resource (431 pages) : illustrations, tables, maps |
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University Museum monograph ; 64 |
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University Museum monograph ; 64
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| Contents |
Cover; TIKAL REPORTS-NUMBERS 1-4; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; REPORT NO. 1: FIELD DIRECTOR'S REPORT: THE 1956 AND 1957 SEASONS; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Objectives; Prior investigations; Publication; THE 1956 SEASON; Monuments; Twin-pyramid complex; Miscellaneous results; THE 1957 SEASON; Site map; Monuments; Lintels; Graffiti; Excavations; Stela 23 group; Stela 24; Stela 25; Group H; Group E; Miscellaneous results; Discussion; REFERENCES; REPORT NO. 2: EXCAVATIONS IN THE STELA 23 GROUP; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; EXCAVATIONS; Pre-Phase E; Phase E; Dating of Phase E; Phase D; Artifacts; Burials |
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Dating of Phase DPhase C; Artifacts; Dating of Phase C; Phase B; Dating of Phase B; Phase A; Artifacts; Dating of Phase A; Surface; BURIALS AND CACHES; Burial 1; Burial 2; Burial 3; Burial 4; Cache 1; Cache 2; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; FIGURES; Figure 1 Sketch plan of the Stela 23 Group; Figure 2 Plan of the Stela 23 excavation; Figure 3 Composite section of the Stela 23 excavation; Figure 4 View from west prior to excavation; Figure 5 Excavation on completion, 1957 season; Figure 6 Stairway of Feature 3, from north; Figure 7 Feature 1, from southwest |
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Figure 8 Mosaics in surface of Floor 5Figure 9 Burial 2; Figure 10 Burial 3; Figure 11 Eccentric obsidians; Figure 12 Eccentric flints; Figure 13 Incensario from fill of Feature 1; Figure 14 Polychrome bowl; Figure 15 Incurving red-ware bowl; Figure 16 Small problematic calcite object; REPORT NO. 3: THE PROBLEM OF ABNORMAL STELA PLACEMENTS AT TIKAL AND ELSEWHERE; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Citations; CHECKLISTS OF UNUSUAL SITUATIONS INVOLVING MONUMENTS AND FRAGMENTS; Reasons for absence of fragments at locus of known fragments; Types of ancient re-use of carved monuments and fragments |
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Types of ancient fragmentation of carved monumentsTypes of ancient modifications of carved monuments and fragments; ABNORMAL RESETTINGS OF STELAE: A COMPLEX?; Introduction; Abnormal attitudes toward carved surfaces; Summary of data on certain abnormal stela resettings; Normal features of the abnormal resettings; Breakage; Mutilations; Distances by which fragments were moved; Dating the resettings at Tikal, Yaxha, and Caracol; NOTES ON SEVEN TIKAL STELAE WITH MISSING TOP OR BOTTOM FRAGMENTS; Stela 1; Stela 2; Stela 12; Stela 14; Stela 17; Stela 18; Stela 25; REFERENCES |
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REPORT NO. 4: FIVE NEWLY DISCOVERED CARVED MONUMENTS AT TIKAL AND NEW DATA ON FOUR OTHERSCONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Plan for describing individual monuments; Initial tabulations of miscellaneous information; Textual descriptions, with tabulations of content of inscriptions; Terms and abbreviations; Illustrations of monuments; DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVEN STELAE AND TWO ALTARS: CHRONOLOGICAL DECIPHERMENTS; Stela 12; Stela 14; Stela 19; Altar 6; Stela 22; Altar 10; Stela 23; Stela 24; Stela 25; COMPARISONS AND INTERPRETATIONS; Dimensions and proportions of carved stelae of Early and Late Tikal periods |
| Summary |
Any consideration of ancient Mesoamerica, and more particularly the lowland Maya region, must include the great site of Tikal, Guatemala. Excavation and research were conducted at Tikal under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the government of Guatemala from 1956 through 1969. The painstaking analysis of the results of those years of fieldwork continues, and the results will be published in a projected total of 39 final reports. This volume includes facsimile editions of the first 11 numbers of the final reports, on various topics relevant to the early excavations at Tikal, carried out by the University Museum.University Museum Monograph, 64 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 12, 2014) |
| Subject |
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Antiquities.
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| SUBJECT |
Tikal Site (Guatemala) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85135336
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Guatemala -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057628
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Guatemala.
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Guatemala -- Tikal Site.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shook, Edwin M
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| ISBN |
9781934536339 |
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1934536334 |
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