Palaces of the ancient new world
Subtitle: a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 10th and 11th October 1998
By: Susan Toby Evans and Joanne Pillsbury, editors.
Contributors: Evans, Susan Toby, 1945-; Pillsbury, Joanne.; Dumbarton Oaks.
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Aztec architecture -- Congresses; Maya architecture -- Congresses; Inca architecture -- Congresses; Palaces -- Latin America -- Congresses; Latin America -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers presented at the Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium on Palaces of the Ancient New World.

Includes bibliographical references p. (387-398) and index.
Table of contents: title: Palaces of the ancient new world : an introduction / Joanne Pillsbury and Susan Toby Evans; title: Aztec palaces and other elite residential architecture / Susan Toby Evans; title: Elite residences in west Mexico / Ben A. Nelson; title: Royal palaces and painted tombs : state and society in the valley of Oaxaca / Ernesto González Licón; title: Palaces of Tikal and Copán / Peter D. Harrison and E. Wyllys Andrews; title: Identifying subroyal elite palaces at Copán and Aguateca / David Webster and Takeshi Inomata; title: The concept of the palace in the Andes / Joanne Pillsbury; title: Palaces and politics in the Andean middle horizon / William H. Isbell; title: Identifying Chimú palaces : elite residential architecture in the late intermediate period / Joanne Pillsbury and Banks L. Leonard; title: Enclosures of power : the multiple spaces of Inca administrative palaces / Craig Morris; title: Lifestyles of the rich and famous : luxury and daily life in the households of Machu Picchu's elite / Lucy C. Salazar and Richard L. Burger; title: Body, presence, and space in Andean and Mesoamerican rulership / Stephen D. Houston and Tom Cummins.