University Press Of Colorado imprint: 222 books
Archaeology of the Night
Life After Dark in the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
How did ancient peoples experience, view, and portray the night? What was it like to live in the past when total nocturnal darkness was the norm? Archaeology of the Night explores the archaeology, anthropology, mythology, iconography, and epigraphy of nocturnal practices and questions the dominant...
The Menial Art of Cooking
Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Although the archaeology of food has long played an integral role in our understanding of past cultures, the archaeology of cooking is rarely integrated into models of the past. The cooks who spent countless hours cooking and processing food are overlooked and the forgotten players in the daily lives...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Encapsulating two decades of research, Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca is the first major treatment of the lower Río Verde region of Oaxaca, investigating its social, political, and ecological history. Tracing Formative period developments from the earliest known evidence of...
Obsidian Reflections
Symbolic Dimensions of Obsidian in Mesoamerica
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Departing from the political economy perspective taken by the vast majority of volumes devoted to Mesoamerican obsidian, Obsidian Reflections is an examination of obsidian's sociocultural dimensions—particularly in regard to Mesoamerican world view, religion, and belief systems.
Exploring...
Material Relations
The Marriage Figurines of Prehispanic Honduras
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Focusing on marriage figurines—double human figurines that represent relations formed through social alliances—Hendon, Joyce, and Lopiparo examine the material relations created in Honduras between AD 500 and 1000, a period of time when a network of social houses linked settlements of a variety...
Wearing Culture
Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Wearing Culture connects scholars of divergent geographical areas and academic fields—from archaeologists and anthropologists to art historians—to show the significance of articles of regalia and of dressing and ornamenting people and objects among the Formative period cultures of ancient Mesoamerica...
Utatlán
The Constituted Community of the K'iche' Maya of Q'umarkaj
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
One of the most important Postclassic cities, Utatlán, in highland Guatemala, was excavated more than three decades ago. However, the data amassed by archaeologists have not been published until now. Details on architecture, pottery, burials, and artifacts, along with a focus on residential archaeology,...
by Dean E. Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community, Dean E. Arnold continues his unique approach to ceramic ethnoarchaeology, tracing the history of potters in Ticul, Yucatán, and their production space over a period of more than four decades. This follow-up to his 2008 work...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
In The Ecology of Pastoralism, diverse contributions from archaeologists and ethnographers address pastoralism’s significant impact on humanity’s basic subsistence and survival, focusing on the network of social, political, and religious institutions existing within various societies dependent...
by Andrew Cowell, Alonzo Moss, Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2008
The Arapaho Language is the definitive reference grammar of an endangered Algonquian language. Arapaho differs strikingly from other Algonquian languages, making it particularly relevant to the study of historical linguistics and the evolution of grammar. Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr. document...
Wide Rivers Crossed
The South Platte and the Illinois of the American Prairie
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
In Wide Rivers Crossed, Ellen Wohl tells the stories of two rivers—the South Platte on the western plains and the Illinois on the eastern—to represent the environmental history and historical transformation of major rivers across the American prairie. Wohl begins with the rivers’ natural histories,...
Leaders of the Mexican American Generation
Biographical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Leaders of the Mexican American Generation explores the lives of a wide range of influential members of the US Mexican American community between 1920 and 1965 who paved the way for major changes in their social, political, and economic status within the United States.
Including feminist Alice...
Politics, Labor, and the War on Big Business
The Path of Reform in Arizona, 1890-1920
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Politics, Labor, and the War on Big Business details the rise, fall, and impact of the anticorporate reform effort in Arizona during the Progressive reform era, roughly 1890-1920. Drawing on previously unexamined archival files and building on research presented in his previous books, author David...
The Archaeology of Wak'as
Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In this edited volume, Andean wak'as—idols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratories—play a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood. Top Andean scholars from a variety of disciplines cross regional,...