Quiriguá Reports, Volume I
Quiriguá Reports, Volume I

Author: Wendy Ashmore

Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology

Published: 1979-01-29

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780934718264

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Although Quiriguá and its magnificent carved monuments have been recorded and studied by scholars over the past century, little archaeological data were available until recently. From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at this major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala. The aims of the work were to document a basic chronology, to determine the nature and pattern of structures, and to test hypotheses concerning the origins, location, and demise of Quiriguá. University Museum Monograph, 37

Early Earthquakes of the Americas
Early Earthquakes of the Americas

Author: Robert Louis Kovach

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-03-25

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780521824897

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There is emerging interest amongst researchers from various subject areas in understanding the interplay of earthquake and volcanic occurrences, archaeology and history. This discipline has become known as archeoseismology. Ancient earthquakes often leave their mark in the myths, legends, and literary accounts of ancient peoples, the stratigraphy of their historical sites, and the structural integrity of their constructions. Such information leads to a better understanding of the irregularities in the time-space patterns of earthquake and volcanic occurrences and whether they could have been a factor contributing to some of the enigmatic catastrophes in ancient times. This book focuses on the historical earthquakes of North and South America, and describes the effects those earthquakes have had with illustrated examples of recent structural damage at archaeological sites. It is written at a level that will appeal to students and researchers in the fields of earth science, archaeology, and history.

Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries
Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries

Author: Peter Hervik

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-02

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 113539296X

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Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries explores the Maya of Yucatan, the Maya of academic institutions and the Maya of the tourist industry. It examines the interplay between the local and the external, academic categories of the Maya, and seeks to transcend the paradoxical and incongruent relationship between the social spaces that breathe life into the categories. The notion of "shared social experience" is introduced to embody a focus on reflexivity that goes beyond the subjective position of the author and helps demystify the coexisting subjectivities characteristic of ethnographic fieldwork. It provides a basis for overcoming the exclusive focus on "author," " text," and "discourse" in contemporary postmodernist ethnography, while still conveying important ethnographic information.

The Geobiology and Ecology of Metasequoia
The Geobiology and Ecology of Metasequoia

Author: Ben A. LePage

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-03-30

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9781402026317

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The plant fossil record indicates that the genus Metasequoia was widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere from the early Late Cretaceous to the Plio-Pleistocene. Today the genus has shrunk to one species with approximately 5,000 mature individuals in southeastern China’s Xiahoe Valley. This book distills the current understanding of the biology, ecology and physiology of fossil and living Metasequoia, current research directions and problems that remain unresolved.

Ethnohistory of the High Plains
Ethnohistory of the High Plains

Author: James H. Gunnerson

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13:

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James and Dolores Gunnerson's ethnology of the high plains is a companion volume to the 1987 work by Dr. Gunnerson entitled Archaeology of the High Plains. These two documents are part of a joint USDI Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Forest Service, USDA project to provide an overview of the archaeology and ethnology in an area encompassing eastern Colorado, western Kansas, northeastern New Mexico, and parts of Texas and Oklahoma.