Water management in ancient Mesoamerica
Subtitle: proceedings of the 2nd Cracow Maya Conference, Water Management in Ancient Mesoamerica, February 23-26, 2012, Cracow
By: edited by Jarosław Źrałka and Christophe Helmke ; assistant editor, Monika Banach
Contributors: Źrałka, Jarosław; Helmke, Christophe; Polska Akademia Umiejętności; Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Instytut Archeologii
Series: Contributions in New World archaeology -- v. 5; Contributions in New World archaeology -- v. 5.
Publisher: Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences; Jagiellonian University, Institute of Archaeology
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Kraków
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Water-supply; Congresses; Management; Water; Religious aspects; Mayas; Antiquities; Indians of Central America
Notes: "Special issue."

Includes bibliographical references.

Papers in English or Spanish, with abstracts in both languages.
Table of contents: title: On the logo of the Cracow Maya Conference and the etymology of Kraków / Christophe Helmke and Jarosław Źrałka; title: Water in Maya imagery and writing / Harri Kettunen and Christophe Helmke; title: Control del agua por los antiguos mayas : el sistema hidráulico de la ciudad de Tikal / Liwy Grazioso Sierra y Vernon L. Scarborough; title: Public provisions for dry seasons : the hydraulic system of Uxul and its relevance for the survivability of the settlement / Nicolaus Seefeld; title: Ancient Maya rain water reservoirs in northwestern Belize / Estella Weiss-Krejci; title: El manejo ritual y práctico de agua : el caso del edificio 14 de Nakum, Guatemala / Wiesław Koszkul y Jarosław Źrałka; title: Manejo hidráulico durante el Clásico Tardío en Cancuen, Peten, Guatemala / Silvia Alvarado Najarro; title: Ah Xok, transformaciones de un dios acuático : del tiburón olmeca a la sirena lacandona / Milan Kováč; title: The personifications of celestial water : the many guises of the storm god in the pantheon and cosmology of Teotihuacan / Kasper Wrem Anderson and Christophe Helmke; title: Agua y arquitectura religiosa : evidencias arqueológicas de un ayauhcalli del periodo Azteca Tardío en el manantial Hueytlílatl, Coyoacan / Stan Declercque y Juan Cervantes Rosado.