Maya Art
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Recent papers in Maya Art
"Desde la tumba de los Mayas, rostros de jadeíta," dF 29 (October 27 - November 9, 2004), On show of Mayas at National Museum of Anthropology.
Ichonographic analysis of wahyob representations in maya vases and political relationships.
"Writing as Material Practice grapples with the issue of writing as a form of material culture in its ancient and more recent manifestations, and in the contexts of production and consumption. Fifteen case studies explore the artefactual... more
Comprehensive study of the fourth known Pre-Columbian Maya codex, the "Códice Maya de México", formerly known as the "Grolier Codex", the oldest book on paper from the ancient Americas.
Esta obra nos acerca a la civilización maya a través de una revisión detallada de las piezas de la colección del Museo Amparo. En ella, los autores expanden sus conocimientos del arte y la historia maya en una obra significativa para el... more
Es un compendio de investigaciones en materia de arqueoastronomía y etnoastronomía en entre los grupos mayas prehispánicos y contemporáneos. El libro versa sobre el desarrollo de las prácticas astronómicas en tierras mayas, aborda los... more
PDF of PowerPoint presentation prepared for the 10th European Maya Conference, "The Maya and Their Neighbours", Universiteit Leiden en Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, The Netherlands, December 9-10, 2005.
In the edited volume, The Value of Things: Prehistoric to Contemporary Commodities in the Maya Region. Jennifer Mathews and Tom Guderjan (eds.). Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
TYPOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF MAYA TERRACOTTA STATUETTES OF THE FIRST MILLENNIUM AD. I. Yu. Demicheva Typological classifi cation of terracotta material of Maya of the fi rst millennium AD has not been given due attention so far. That is... more
Columbian epoch as well as the early colonial times. Both periods are presented together because even though we have abundant of the colonial examples to the pre-Columbian epoch. The second part of the article presents a comparison of... more
This publication, a slight revision of my MA thesis from 1967, is the first published report showing the modern Maya use of palygorskite (then called attapulgite), a clay mineral used by the ancient Maya to make Maya Blue, an unusual... more
Mirrors or mirror-like objects/"mirrors" made of stones, minerals, glass and metal were found in various archaeological contexts, generally in burial, offering and cache contexts. These remarkable and somehow enigmatic objects are best... more
Signs on a body. Revisiting the Maya tattoos in the Classic period Abstract. Article is devoted to tradition of tattooing and skarifikation of Maya Indians in the Classic period. Difficulties in studying of this problem are connected with... more
One of four known ancient Maya books, the Grolier Codex depicts different manifestations of Venus; the column of glyphs on the left of each panel records days in a 104-year Venus almanac. These plaster-coated bark-paper pages,... more
El universo y nuestro planeta están en constante diálogo. Desde el origen del hombre y de la formación y el entramado de las civilizaciones más antiguas, ha existido la necesidad humana de imaginar y explicar el inicio de la vida, el... more
Maya art is a rare combination of linear elegance and naturalism, blended with dazzling symbolic complexity. Decorated objects, ranging from painted vases and carved jade and shell ornaments to towering stone monuments and building... more
Abstract There are many similarities amongst Mesoamerican religious practices that cannot be overlooked. This paper seeks to establish the commonalities between the origin stories and religious practices of three Mesoamerican cultures.... more
The Grolier Codex is discussed in the context of the archaeoastronomy of the ancient Americas on pages 98-99 of the March 1990 National Geographic Magazine article "America's Ancient Skywatchers" by John B. Carlson. One of four known... more
Maya blue is a turquoise paint used by the ancient Maya for pottery, murals, sculpture and for covering human victims before they were sacrificed. In the 1960s, its composition was identified as indigo and the clay mineral palygorskite.... more
Uaxactún y las reconstrucciones tridimensionales de sitos mayas del Peten. Contributo del Arq. Juan Antonio Valdes
The Grolier Codex (Codice Maya de Mexico, CMM) is discussed in the context of the archaeoastronomy of the ancient Americas on pages 98-99 of the March 1990 National Geographic Magazine article "America's Ancient Skywatchers" by John B.... more
The article examines an aspect of the conceptions of personhood, found since very early times in Mesoamerica. First of all, the idea that human beings are all endowed with one or more alter egos, mostly animals (but also natural... more
The 'Castle' pyramid (El Castillo) in Chichén Itzá constitutes a magnificent example of the genius and skill of the erudite Maya, who imbued the structure with their astronomical and calendric knowledge, and mastery of geometry. This... more
Originally the paper was presented at the 6th European Maya Conference "Recapturing Mayan Memories: Historical Representation in Text, Image and Ritual" (2001, Hamburg) and submitted for publication in 2002. Since then the proceedings... more
An overview essay co-authored with Laraine Fletcher, in connection with NEH Institutes offered on-site in Central America
Published in German as: McSweeney, Anna (2018) 'Monumente zum Mitnehmen: Lottin de Lavals Verfahren ambulanter Bauwerkskopien'. In: Bilderfahrzeuge: Aby Warburgs Vermächtnis und die Zukunft der Ikonologie. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin,... more