Janaab' Pakal of Palenque
Subtitle: reconstructing the life and death of a Maya ruler
By: edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina.
Contributors: Tiesler, Vera.; Cucina, Andrea, 1966-
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780816525102
Subjects: Pakal, Maya king, 603-683 -- Death and burial.; Mayas -- Kings and rulers -- Mexico -- Palenque (Chiapas) -- Biography.; Mayas -- Anthropometry -- Mexico -- Palenque (Chiapas); Maya architecture -- Mexico -- Palenque (Chiapas); Tombs -- Mexico -- Palenque (Chiapas); Human remains (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Palenque (Chiapas); Palenque Site (Mexico); Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico) -- Antiquities.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Studying Janaab' Pakal and reconstructing Maya dynastic history / Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina; title: Life and death of the ruler : recent bioarchaeological findings / Vera Tiesler; title: Janaab' Pakal : the age-at-death controversy revisited / Jane E. Buikstra, George R. Milner, and Jesper L. Boldsen; title: A histomorphometric analysis of the cortical bone of the rib of Janaab' Pakal / Sam D. Stout and Margaret Streeter; title: Pakal's age in the demographic context of late classic Palenque society / Lourdes Márquez, Patricia Hernández, and Carlos Serrano; title: Did Pakal suffer from deforming diseases? : true facts and iconographic myths / Arturo Romano; title: Geographic origin of Janaab' Pakal and the red queen : evidence from strontium isotopes / T. Douglas Price ... [et al.]; title: The companions of Janaab' Pakal and the "red queen" from Palenque Chiapas : meanings of human companion sacrifice in classic Maya society / Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler; title: Maya rulers of Yaxchilán longevity : the reigns of shield jaguar and bird jaguar / Patricia Hernández and Lourdes Márquez; title: Ancient Maya royal biographies in a comparative perspective / Nikolai Grube; title: Discussion / John W. Verano.