Copán
Subtitle: the history of an ancient Maya kingdom
By: edited by E. Wyllys Andrews and William L. Fash
Contributors: Andrews, E. Wyllys; Fash, William Leonard
Edition: 1st ed
Series: School of American Research advanced seminar series
Publisher: School of American Research Press; James Currey
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Santa Fe; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
Subjects: Mayas -- Honduras -- Copán (Dept.) -- Antiquities; Maya architecture -- Honduras -- Copán (Dept.); Maya sculpture -- Honduras -- Copán (Dept.); Inscriptions, Mayan -- Honduras -- Copán (Dept.); Copán Site (Honduras); Copán (Honduras : Dept.) -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-478) and index
Table of contents: title: Contributions and controversies in the archaeology and history of Copán / William L. Fash and Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle; title: Political ecology, political economy, and the culture history of resource management at Copán / David Webster; title: Toward a social history of the Copán Valley / William L. Fash; title: Iconographic evidence for water management and social organization at Copán / Barbara W. Fash; title: Early classic royal power in Copan : the origins and development of the acropolis (ca. ad 250-600) / Robert J. Sharer ... [et al.]; title: The evolution of structure 10l-16, heart of the Copán acropolis / Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle and Barbara W. Fash; title: A late classic royal residence at Copán / E. Wyllys Andrews and Cassandra R. Bill; title: Health and lifestyle (before and after death) among the Copán elite / Rebecca Storey; title: Seats of power at Copán / Linda Schele and Matthew G. Looper; title: A foreign past : the writing and representation of history on a royal ancestral shrine at Copán / David Stuart; title: Issues in Copán archaeology / E. Wyllys Andrews and William L. Fash