Search Results - "Taube, Karl A."
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THE SYMBOLISM OF JADE IN CLASSIC MAYA RELIGION
Published in Ancient Mesoamerica (01-01-2005)“…The Classic Maya esteemed jadeite not only for its preciousness and beauty but also as stone of great symbolic import. This paper examines the religious…”
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Oldest Writing in the New World
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (15-09-2006)“…A block with a hitherto unknown system of writing has been found in the Olmec heartland of Veracruz, Mexico. Stylistic and other dating of the block places it…”
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Vera Tiesler and Andrew K. Scherer, eds. 2018. Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice
Published in Estudios de cultura náhuatl (01-07-2021)Get full text
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Flower Mountain: Concepts of Life, Beauty, and Paradise among the Classic Maya
Published in Res (Cambridge, Mass.) (01-04-2004)Get full text
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Cover & Contribution: An Olmec Style Statuette in the Worcester Art Museum
Published in Mexicon (01-04-2017)Get full text
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The Maize Tamale in Classic Maya Diet, Epigraphy, and Art
Published in American antiquity (01-01-1989)“…Iconographic, epigraphic, and linguistic data provide new evidence that the tamale constituted the primary maize food of Classic Maya diet. Archaeological and…”
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The Bilimek Pulque Vessel
Published in Ancient Mesoamerica (10-10-2008)“…The Bilimek Vessel is among the most remarkable pieces of portable Aztec sculpture, and it contains an unusually complex body of imagery concerning starlore…”
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Folk Classification of Classic Maya Pottery
Published in American anthropologist (01-09-1989)Get full text
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A Prehispanic Maya Katun Wheel
Published in Journal of anthropological research (01-07-1988)“…Much has been written on the calendrical achievements of the ancient Maya; however, little is known of the ancient Maya models for recording and conceiving of…”
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Did the Olmec Know How to Write? [with Response]
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THE BILIMEK PULQUE VESSEL: Starlore, calendrics, and cosmology of Late Postclassic central Mexico
Published in Ancient Mesoamerica (1993)“…The Bilimek Vessel is among the most remarkable pieces of portable Aztec sculpture, and it contains an unusually complex body of imagery concerning starlore…”
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Obsidian Polyhedral Cores and Prismatic Blades in the Writing and Art of Ancient Mexico
Published in Ancient Mesoamerica (1991)“…The widespread appearance of obsidian prismatic blades and polyhedral cores in ancient Mexican writing and art provides important information regarding ancient…”
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The Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Cult of Sacred War at Teotihuacan
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A Ritual Clown of the Early Classic Maya Court
Published in Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts (01-01-1991)Get full text
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The Teotihuacan Cave of Origin: The Iconography and Architecture of Emergence Mythology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest
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Research Reports: Folk Classification of Classic Maya Pottery
Published in American anthropologist (01-09-1989)“…Protohistoric texts can be used to reconstruct folk classifications of Maya pottery. Maya archaeologists are now in a position to compare their devised…”
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Uses of Sport -- The Mesoamerican Ballgame edited by Vernon L. Scarborough and David R. Wilcox
Published in Science (15-05-1992)“…Review…”
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