The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition

62 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA and on pottery. These inscriptions provide information on dynastic histories of Mayan rulers, ...

CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 63 Box 1.5 The Long Count Calendar Sometime in the Late Formative ...

64 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA that it disrupted polities’ abilities to function. In the Petexbatun region, extensive studies ...

CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 65 the ultimate demise of the center, and we know the names of ma ...

66 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA Elements of Teotihuacan symbolism are present in the art of many later Mayan sites, in referen ...

CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 67 Figure 1.12 Overview of the site of Palenque; the Palace compo ...

68 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA Figure 1.13 Newly discovered panel from The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mex ...

CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 69 king acceded in A.D. 799, a fact recorded on a single pottery ...

70 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA installed this Quirigua ruler himself in 724, this was a treacherous betrayal. This act ended ...

CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 71 The sixteenth and penultimate ruler of Copán, Yax Pasaj Chan Y ...

72 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA cities and states in northern Mesoamerica. After the fall of Teotihuacan, a number of large ci ...

CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 73 Figure 1.16 Ritualized battle as depicted in a mural at the Ep ...

74 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA Features like those of the Great Platform are also located at key points within 2.5 km of the ...

CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 75 centers is poorly understood and hotly debated. Long-standing ...

76 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA The administrative institutions of this city were complex and involved councils of political l ...

CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 77 CLARK, JOHNE., and MARYE. PYE(eds.) 2000 Olmec Art and Archaeo ...

Chapter 2 Late Postclassic Mesoamerica To better understand the Late Postclassic period (A.D. 1200–1520) in Mesoamerica we benef ...

fore, giving rise to the notion of an international or cosmopolitan art style—so named because it was an artistic style that was ...

80 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA an important Zapotec royal family. Mitla, also in the eastern part of the valley, is the best- ...

CHAPTER 2 LATE POSTCLASSIC MESOAMERICA 81 Figure 2.3 Mixtec artist-scribe as portrayed in the Codex Vindobonensis. After Jill Le ...