New perspectives on human sacrifice and ritual body treatment in ancient Maya society / edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina.
The central goal of this book is to contribute to the timely discussion and understanding of Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. Most school children in the US learn about the Maya and their practices based on their cultural and religious beliefs in their Social Studies classes....
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
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[2007]
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| Series: | Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology.
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks Table of contents Publisher description Publisher description |
| Summary: | The central goal of this book is to contribute to the timely discussion and understanding of Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. Most school children in the US learn about the Maya and their practices based on their cultural and religious beliefs in their Social Studies classes. But a number of new sites have been discovered, giving an interdisciplinary group of researchers a channel to discuss these acts and their meaning. The editors bring together not only archaeologists but anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, art historians and bioarchaeologists, giving the volume a more complete perspective on these sites and the material culture and biological evidence found there. The field of archaeology is growing to include the physical remains of ritual practice along with the material remains and this book can be seen as an example of who the study of ancient civilizations can be more comprehensive. Additionally, this is an international volume with scholars from the area studied which is becoming more and more important in archaeological research.--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | Outgrowth of a symposium held at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in 2005. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 319 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0387488707 0387488715 9780387488707 9780387488714 |