Stone houses and earth lords
Subtitle: Maya religion in the cave context
By: edited by Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady.
Contributors: Prufer, Keith M. 1960-; Brady, James Edward, 1948-
Series: Mesoamerican worlds
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Mayas -- Religion.; Maya cosmology.; Mayas -- Anthropometry.; Caves -- Religious aspects -- Mexico.; Caves -- Religious aspects -- Belize.; Sacred space -- Mexico.; Sacred space -- Belize.; Human remains (Archaeology) -- Mexico.; Human remains (Archaeology) -- Belize.; Mexico -- Antiquities.; Belize -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Religion and role of caves in lowland Maya archaeology / Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady; title: Replicating the sacred landscape : the Chen at Muklebal Tzul / Keith M. Prufer and Andrew Kindon; title: Caves and artificial caves in late postclassic Maya ceremonial groups / Timothy W. Pugh; title: Social power and sacred space at Actun Nak Beh, Belize / Christina T. Halperin; title: Pilgrimage and caves on Cozumel / Shankari Patel; title: The impact of ritual on ancient Maya economy / James E. Brady; title: Scribes and caves in the Maya lowlands / Andrea Stone; title: Nikte mo' scattered fire in the Cave of K'ab Chante' : epigraphic and archaeological evidence for cave desecration in ancient Maya warfare / James E. Brady and Pierre R. Colas; title: Plants and caves in ancient Maya society / Christopher T. Morehart; title: The sweatbath in the cave : a modified passage in Chechem Ha Cave, Belize / Holley Moyes; title: An analysis of ancient Maya stalactite breakage at Balam Na Cave, Guatemala / James E. Brady ... [et al.]; title: De-fanging the earth monster : speleothem transport to surface sites in the Sibun Valley / Polly A. Peterson, Patricia A. McAnany, and Allan B. Cobb; title: Showing the way : the function of three small caves in the Sibun-Manatee Karst / Amalia Kenward; title: Human remains in lowland Maya caves : problems of interpretation / Ann M. Scott and James E. Brady; title: Mortuary practices of the prehistoric Maya from Caves Branch Rock Shelter, Belize / David M. Glassman and Juan Luis Bonor Villarejo; title: Nearer to the gods : rockshelter burials from the Ek Xux Valley, Belize / Julie Mather Saul, Keith M. Prufer, and Frank P. Saul; title: A question of sacrifice : classic Maya cave mortuary practices at Barton Creek Cave, Belize / Vanessa A. Owen; title: What can the bones really tell us? : the study of human skeletal remains from Cenotes / Vera Tiesler; title: Maya cave archaeology : a new look at religion and cosmology / James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer.