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The Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721–705 B.C.

The Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721–705 B.C.

by Sarah C. Melville

The Campaigns of Sargon II demonstrates how Sargon changed the geopolitical dynamics in the Near East, inspired a period of cultural florescence, established long-lasting Assyrian supremacy, and became one of the most influential kings of the ancient world.

“Strange Lands and Different Peoples”

“Strange Lands and Different Peoples”

Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala

by W. George Lovell and Christopher H. Lutz

Contributions by Wendy Kramer and William R. Swezey

Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “many different peoples” was brutal and prolonged. “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” examines the myriad ramifications of Spanish intrusion, especially Maya resistance to it and the changes that took place in native life because of it.

War in the Land of True Peace

War in the Land of True Peace

The Fight for Maya Sacred Places

by Brent K. S. Woodfill

From early struggles to remove foreign influence to present-day battles over land tenure and indigenous-run ecotourism parks, this book documents a continuity in Maya culture over several thousand years—and illuminates the world view, with its sense of personhood and religion so different from the West’s, that informs this enduring culture.
 

The Mixtecs of Oaxaca

The Mixtecs of Oaxaca

Ancient Times to the Present

by Ronald Spores and Andrew K. Balkansky

The Mixtec peoples were among the major original developers of Mesoamerican civilization.  Centuries before the Spanish Conquest, they formed literate urban states and maintained a uniquely innovative technology and a flourishing economy.  Today, thousands of Mixtecs still live in Oaxaca, in present-day southern Mexico, and thousands more have migrated to locations throughout Mexico, the United States, and Canada. In this comprehensive survey, Ronald Spores and Andrew K. Balkansky—both preeminent scholars of Mixtec civilization—synthesize a wealth of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data to trace the emergence and evolution of Mixtec civilization from the time of earliest human occupation to the present.

The Fifteenth Month

The Fifteenth Month

Aztec History in the Rituals of Panquetzaliztli

by John F. Schwaller

Focused on one of the most important months in the Mexica year, Schwaller’s work marks a new methodology in which traditional sources for Mexica culture, rather than being interrogated for their specific content, are read through for their insights into the historical development of the people.
 

Primeros Memoriales, Part 2

Primeros Memoriales, Part 2

Paleography of Nahuatl Text and English Translation

by Fray Bernardino de Sahagun

Translated by Thelma D. Sullivan

Primeros Memoriales is published here for the first time in its entirety both in the original Nahuatl and in English translation. The volume follows the manuscript order reconstructed for the Primeros Memoriales by Francisco del Paso y Troncoso in his 1905-1907 facsimile edition of the collection of Sahaguntine manuscripts he called Codices Matritenses.

Translating Maya Hieroglyphs

Translating Maya Hieroglyphs

by Scott A. J. Johnson

Maya hieroglyphic writing may seem impossibly opaque to beginning students, but scholar Scott A. J. Johnson presents it as a regular and comprehensible system in this engaging, easy-to-follow textbook. The only comprehensive introduction designed specifically for those new to the study, Translating Maya Hieroglyphs uses a hands-on approach to teach learners the current state of Maya epigraphy.

Politics of the Maya Court

Politics of the Maya Court

Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic Period

by Sarah E. Jackson

In recent decades, advances in deciphering Maya hieroglyphic writing have given scholars new tools for understanding key aspects of ancient Maya society. This book—the first comprehensive examination of the Maya royal court—exemplifies the importance of these new sources. Authored by anthropologist Sarah E. Jackson and richly illustrated with drawings, photographs, and maps, Politics of the Maya Court uses hieroglyphic and iconographic evidence to explore the composition and social significance of royal courts in the Late Classic period (a.d. 600–900), with a special emphasis on the role of courtly elites.

The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume One

The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume One

The Classic Period Inscriptions

by Martha J. Macri and Matthew G. Looper

For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, archaeologists, photographers, and artists recorded the Maya carvings that remained, often by transporting box cameras and plaster casts through the jungle on muleback. The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume I: The Classic Period Inscriptions is a guide to all the known hieroglyphic symbols of the Classic Maya script.

Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala

Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala

by Megan E. O'Neil

Now shrouded in Guatemalan jungle, the ancient Maya city of Piedras Negras flourished between the sixth and ninth centuries, when its rulers erected monumental limestone sculptures carved with hieroglyphic texts and images of themselves and family members, advisers, and captives. In Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, Megan E. O’Neil offers new ways to understand these stelae, altars, and panels by exploring how ancient Maya people interacted with them. With the help of more than 160 illustrations, O’Neil reveals these sculptures’ continuing life histories, which in the past century have included their fragmentation and transformation into commodities sold on the international art market.

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