The Copan Sculpture Museum
The Copan Sculpture Museum

Author: Barbara W. Fash

Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Publications Department

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780873658584

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In The Copan Sculpture Museum, Barbara Fash tells the inside story of conceiving, designing, and building a local museum with global significance. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and culture of the ancient Maya and a model for working with local communities to preserve cultural heritage.

Understanding Maya Inscriptions
Understanding Maya Inscriptions

Author: John F. Harris

Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology

Published: 1997-01-29

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780924171413

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This second edition includes revised and updated versions of three earlier publications: Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook; New and Recent Maya Hieroglyph Readings; and A Resource Bibliography for the Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphs and New Maya Hieroglyph Readings. This volume is designed to function as a self-teaching tool to help the neophyte, and yet be of value to scholars. It introduces the latest methods of analysis, illustrates techniques for computing Maya calendrics, uses the currently accepted orthography, provides syllabary and syntax, suggests new glyph readings, and presents various interpretations.

Scribes, Warriors and Kings
Scribes, Warriors and Kings

Author: William L. Fash

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 1993-03

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780500277089

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Copan in modern Honduras was one of the great cities of the Classic Maya. Explorers found ruined temples, plazas, and more hieroglyphic inscriptions and sculpted monuments than in any other site in the New World. But the stones were silent, the script undeciphered.

Copán
Copán

Author: Edward Wyllys Andrews

Publisher: James Currey Publishers

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 9780852559819

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"This volume collects leading scholarship on one of the most important archaeological complexes in the ancient Maya world. The authors - internationally renowned experts who participated in the Copan Acropolis Archaeological Project - address enduring themes in Maya archaeology, such as symbolism and its use in elite legitimation strategies, demographics and ancient political economy, and the relationship between water management and social structure. In addition to site-specific breakthroughs involving dynastic sequences, epigraphy, and chronologies, these essays explore questions of broad interest to archaeologists and other anthropologists, including state formation, architecture and space, and the relationship between history and archaeology as well as among archaeology, epigraphy, and iconography. Synthesizing the new findings in the context of the long history of Maya archaeology, the volume takes stock of the field and suggests future directions for research."--BOOK JACKET.

Understanding Early Classic Copan
Understanding Early Classic Copan

Author: Ellen E. Bell

Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9781931707510

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The book is not just multidisciplinary but interdisciplinary, linking, for example, the architecture of monuments with epigraphy, language concepts, and human events.

The House of the Bacabs, Copán, Honduras
The House of the Bacabs, Copán, Honduras

Author: David L. Webster

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780884021773

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Dorie Reents-Budet, Curator, Pre-Columbian Art, Duke University Museum of Art, Claude Baudez, William Fash Jr., Berthold Riese, William Sanders, and David Webster contribute to this monograph, and using an integrated art historical and anthropological approach, consider the House of the Bacabs' context as an elite Maya structure, its excavation and restoration, and its iconographic and epigraphic reconstruction and interpretation, to establish models for understanding Classic Maya social and political life.