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6) The Maya
Author
Series
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya by experts Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston. In this new edition, this classic has been updated by distilling the latest scholarship for the general reader and student. This edition incorporates the most recent archaeological and epigraphic findings, which continue to proceed at a fast pace, along with full-color illustrations. The new material includes...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This nuanced account explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers an important reexamination of the mid-16th-century Popol Vuh, long considered an authoritative text, which is better understood as one among many crucial sources for the interpretation of ancient Maya art and myth. Using materials gathered across Mesoamerica, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos bridges the gap between written texts and artistic representations,...
Author
Publisher
Abbeville Press Publishers
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A biography of English artist Frederick Catherwood based on original research, as well as Catherwood's journals and drawings, focusing on his adventures while studying and painting the lost Mayan cities in the jungles of Central America and the Yucatan plateau in the early nineteenth century.
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