New perspectives on human sacrifice and ritual body treatment in ancient Maya society

New perspectives on human sacrifice and postsacrifical body treatments in ancient Maya society /Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler --Funerary or nonfunerary? : new references in identifying ancient Maya sacrificial and postsacrificial behaviors from human assemblages /Vera Tiesler --The creation and sac...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Tiesler, Vera (HerausgeberIn), Cucina, Andrea (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:	eng
Veröffentlicht:	New York u.a. Springer 2007
Schriftenreihe:	Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
Schlagworte:	Mayas > Funeral customs and rites > Religion > Rites and ceremonies > Human sacrifice > Funeral rites and ceremonies > Maya > Körper > Ritual > Menschenopfer
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Zusammenfassung:	New perspectives on human sacrifice and postsacrifical body treatments in ancient Maya society /Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler --Funerary or nonfunerary? : new references in identifying ancient Maya sacrificial and postsacrificial behaviors from human assemblages /Vera Tiesler --The creation and sacrifice of witches in Classic Maya society /Lisa J. Lucero and Sherry A. Gibbs --Empowered and disempowered during the Late to Terminal Classic transition /Eleanor Harrison-Buck, Patricia A. McAnany, and Rebecca Storey --Posthumous body treatments and ritual meaning in the Classic period northern Petén /Cecilia Medina Martín and Mirna Sánchez Vargas --Human sacrifice in Late Postclassic Maya iconography and texts /Gabrielle Vail and Christine Hernández --Skeletons, skulls, and bones in the art of Chichén Itzá /Virgina E. Miller --Sacrifice and ritual body mutilation in Postclassical Maya society /Guillermo de Anda Alanís --Sacred spaces and human funerary and nonfunerary placements in Champotón, Campeche, during the Postclassic period /Araceli Hurtado Cen ... [et al.] --Human sacrificial rites among the Maya of Mayapán /Stanley Serafin and Carlos Peraza Lope --Nutrition, lifestyle, and social status of skeletal remains from nonfunerary and "problematical" contexts /Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler --Victims of sacrifice /T. Douglas Price ... [et al]. --The bioarchaeology of Maya sacrifice /Jane E. Buikstra.
Beschreibung:	X, 319 S. Ill.
ISBN:	9780387488707 978-0-387-48870-7 0387488707 0-387-48870-7