University Press Of Colorado imprint: 222 books
Archaeometallurgy in Mesoamerica
Current Approaches and New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Presenting the latest in archaeometallurgical research in a Mesoamerican context, Archaeometallurgy in Mesoamerica brings together up-to-date research from the most notable scholars in the field. These contributors analyze data from a variety of sites, examining current approaches to the study of...
The Archaeology of Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey
The Economic and Social Dynamics of Mass Hunting
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
The Archaeology of Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey explores the social and functional aspects of large-scale hunting adaptations in the archaeological record. Mass-kill hunting strategies are ubiquitous in human prehistory and exhibit culturally specific economic, social, environmental, and demographic...
Stories in Stone
The Enchanted Gem Carvings of Vasily Konovalenko
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Vasily Konovalenko’s unique, dynamic, and theatrical sculptures stand alone in the gem-carving world—bawdy but not salacious, political but not diplomatic, boisterous and exuberant yet occasionally sensitive*. Stories in Stone* offers the first comprehensive treatment of the life of this little-known...
Rituals of the Past
Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars...
Memory Traces
Analyzing Sacred Space at Five Mesoamerican Sites
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In Memory Traces, art historians and archaeologists come together to examine the nature of sacred space in Mesoamerica. Through five well-known and important centers of political power and artistic invention in Mesoamerica—Tetitla at Teotihuacan, Tula Grande, the Mound of the Building Columns at...
"The Only True People"
Linking Maya Identities Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
"The Only True People" is a timely and rigorous examination of ethnicity among the ancient and modern Maya, focusing on ethnogenesis and exploring the complexities of Maya identity—how it developed, where and when it emerged, and why it continues to change over time. In the volume, a...
Patron Gods and Patron Lords
The Semiotics of Classic Maya Community Cults
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the first comprehensive treatment of Classic Maya patron deity veneration, Joanne P. Baron demonstrates the central importance of patron deity cults in political relationships between both rulers and their subjects and among different Maya kingdoms. Weaving together evidence from inscriptions,...
Yellowstone Wildlife
Ecology and Natural History of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Yellowstone Wildlife is a natural history of the wildlife species that call Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem their home. Illustrated with stunning images by renowned wildlife photographer Thomas Mangelsen, Yellowstone Wildlife describes the lives of species in the park,...
Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology
Investigations into Pre-Columbian Iroquoian Space and Place
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology examines Northern Iroquoian archaeology through various lenses at multiple spatial levels, including individual households, village constructions, relationships between villages in a local region, and relationships between various Iroquoian nations...
Incidence of Travel
Recent Journeys in Ancient South America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In Incidence of Travel, archaeologist Jerry Moore draws on his personal experiences and historical and archaeological studies throughout South America to explore and understand the ways traditional peoples created cultural landscapes in the region. Using new narrative structures, Moore introduces...
Manufactured Light
Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Complex and time-consuming to produce, iron-ore mirrors stand out among Prehispanic artifacts for their aesthetic beauty, their symbolic implications, and the complexity and skill of their assembly. Manufactured Light presents the latest archaeological research on these items, focusing on the intersection...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica is an interdisciplinary tour de force that establishes the critical role astronomy played in the religious and civic lives of the ancient peoples of Mesoamerica. Providing extraordinary examples of how Precolumbian peoples merged...
Tezcatlipoca
Trickster and Supreme Deity
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity brings archaeological evidence into the body of scholarship on “the lord of the smoking mirror,” one of the most important Aztec deities. While iconographic and textual resources from sixteenth-century chroniclers and codices have contributed greatly to...
Abundance
The Archaeology of Plenitude
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Using case studies from around the globe—including Mesoamerica, North and South America, Africa, China, and the Greco-Roman world—and across multiple time periods, the authors in this volume make the case that abundance provides an essential explanatory perspective on ancient peoples’ choices...