The place of stone monuments
Subtitle: context, use, and meaning in Mesoamerica's preclassic transition
By: Julia Guernsey, John E. Clark, and Bárbara Arroyo, editors.
Contributors: Guernsey, Julia, 1964-; Clark, John E.; Arroyo, Bárbara.
Series: Dumbarton Oaks pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection; Distributed by Harvard University Press; Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; [Cambridge, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780884023647
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities -- Congresses; Indians of Central America -- Antiquities -- Congresses; Monuments -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- History -- Congresses; Monuments -- Social aspects -- Central America -- History -- Congresses; Monuments -- Political aspects -- Mexico -- History -- Congresses; Monuments -- Political aspects -- Central America -- History -- Congresses; Stele (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Congresses; Stele (Archaeology) -- Central America -- Congresses; Indian sculpture -- Mexico -- Congresses; Indian sculpture -- Central America -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Joanne Pillsbury; title: Preface / Julia Guernsey, John E. Clark, and Bárbara Arroyo; title: Stone monuments and preclassic civilization / John E. Clark, Julia Guernsey, and Bárbara Arroyo; title: Iconography of the Nahual : human-animal transformations in preclassic Guerrero and Morelos / Gerardo Gutierrez and Mary E. Pye; title: Sculpture from Teopantecuanitlan, Guerrero / Guadalupe Martinez Donjuan; title: Zazacatla in the framework of Olmec Mesoamerica / Giselle Canto Aguilar and Victor M. Castro Mendoza; title: Stone monuments and earthen mounds : polity and placemaking at Tres Zapotes, Veracruz / Christopher A. Pool; title: The architectural setting of Olmec sculpture clusters at La Venta, Tabasco / Rebecca B. González Lauck; title: Thinking outside the plaza : varieties of preclassic sculpture in Pacific Guatemala and their potential political significance / Michael W. Love; title: Preclassic Olmec and Maya monuments and architecture at Takalik Abaj / Christa Schieber de Lavarreda and Miguel Orrego Corzo; title: Rulers, gods, and potbellies : a consideration of sculptural forms and themes from the preclassic Pacific coast and piedmont of Mesoamerica / Julia Guernsey; title: Preclassic stone sculpture in the Guatemalan highlands : broken monuments and foreign scripts / Federico Fahsen; title: Revisiting Kaminaljuyu Monument 65 in three-dimensional high definition / Travis F. Doering and Lori D. Collins; title: Shining stones : observations on the ritual meaning of early Maya stelae / David Stuart.