Heart of earth
Subtitle: studies in Maya ritual cave use
By: edited by James E. Brady
Contributors: Ishihara, Reiko; Ishihara, Reiko
Series: Bulletin / Association for Mexican Cave Studies -- 23; Bulletin (Association for Mexican Cave Studies) -- 23.
Publisher: Association for Mexican Cave Studies
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Austin, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Caves; Religious aspects; Mayas; Rites and ceremonies; Religion; Antiquities; Archaeology; Methodology
Other titles: Studies in Maya ritual cave use
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Historical developments in cave archaeology; title: The historical context of the founding of Maya cave archaeology  -- Ann M. Scott; title: The Mesoamerican cave paradigm : its historical development  -- C. L. Kieffer and Ann M. Scott -- Archaeological field studies; title: Cueva del Sapo : a GIS spatial analysis of surface remains in a classic ritual cave of western Chiapas, Mexico  -- Davide Domenici and Cristina Pongetti; title: Windows of the Earth : an ethnoarchaeological study on cave use in Suchitepéquez and Sololá, Guatemala  -- Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Jenny Guerra; title: The archaeological cave as an early form of artificial cave in the Maya lowlands  -- James E. Brady; title: Je'reftheel, Roaring Creek Works, Belize  -- Christophe G. B. Helmke and Gabriel D. Wrobel; title: Investigations at Actun Neko, Caves Branch River Valley, Belize  -- Shawn G. Morton, Christophe Helinke and Jaime J. Awe; title: Constructing the underworld : the built environment in ancient Mesoamerican caves  -- Holly Moyes; title: Artifact studies --; title: A green obsidian eccentric from Actun Uayazba Kab, Belize  -- W. James Stemp, Christophe G.B. Helmke, Jaime J. Awe, Tristan Carter, and Sarah Grant; title: Manuports in caves  -- Michael Mirro; title: Leaving no stone unturned : the identification and interpretation of unmodified or minimally modified stone manuports in caves  -- James E. Brady; title: Using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry to source speleothems from archaeological contexts in the Sibun Valley Region of Belize, Central America -- Humberto Nation, Polly A. Peterson, James E. Brady, Hector Neff, and Patricia A. McAnany.