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New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya
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Jeremy A Sabloff
Using high-tech equipment, chemical analyses and sampling strategies, archaeologists are learning more about how and why cultures change. Using the study of the Maya as a test case, this book shows how the transformation of archaeology has brought new understanding of past civilizations.
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Cities of Ancient Mexico: Reconstructing a Lost World
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Jeremy A Sabloff
In this new, revised edition of Jeremy Sabloff's study, he looks at some of the richest cultures of the early historic world - Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, Toltec, and Aztec. Professor Sabloff describes everyday life during the heyday of Mexico's greatest cities in a series of vignettes; through the eyes of astronomers and ballplayers, merchants and ...
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History of American Archaeology
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Gordon Randolph Willey, Jeremy A Sabloff
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Ancient Astronomers
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Anthony F. Aveni, Jeremy A. Sabloff (Editor)
Anthony F. Aveni, who pioneered the field of archaeoastronomy, here relates the sophisticated understandings of astronomy that underlie such features of the ancient world as the Maya calendar, Polynesian navigation, Nasca lines in Southern Peru, and Stonehenge in England.
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Ancient Pueblo People
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Linda S Cordell, Jeremy A Sabloff (Editor)
Moving from Mesa Verde to Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon to the Mimbres region--all hallmarks of Native American achievement in pre-Columbian North America--this book spans two millennia to show the links with Pueblo peoples of today.
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The Lords of Tikal: Rulers of an Ancient Maya City
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Peter Harrison, Colin Renfrew (Foreword by), Jeremy A Sabloff (Foreword by)
The Maya metropolis of Tikal was once one of the greatest cities in the world, its skyline dominated by huge temple-pyramids. In AD 750 over 100,000 people lived there, in the heart of the Guatemalan rainforest. But why did the city flourish? What does its history reveal about Maya civilization? And why did Tikal collapse? Drawing upon over 30 ...
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Conversations with Lew Binford: Drafting the New Archaeology
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Paula L. Sabloff, Jeremy A. Sabloff
In these 1982 interviews Lew Binford, father of the New Archaeology, explains how in the early 1960s he pioneered the change from traditional culture history - archaeologists educated guesses about past peoples' lives - to a more rigorous detection of social and cultural systems in the archaeological record. At the urging of the author-interviewer ...
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Study Changing
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Jeremy A Sabloff (Editor), Dr. William L Rathje (Editor)
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Pyramids
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Flora Simmons Clancy, Jeremy A Sabloff (Editor)
The book reveals the functions, meanings, and construction techniques of Egyptian pyramids, Mesopotamian ziggurats, Buddhist stupas, Khmer temple-towers, and Maya terraced pyramids.
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Search for the First Americans
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David Meltzer, Jeremy A Sabloff (Editor)
Summarizing one of today's most active archaeological debates--over when the New World was first peopled--Meltzer describes discoveries at controversial sites and the development of Native American cultures until the arrival of Europeans.
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Archaeology Matters: Action Archaeology in the Modern World
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Jeremy A Sabloff
How could archaeology matter in the modern world? Archaeology studies the people of long ago and far away. Former SAA President Jeremy Sabloff points to ways in which archaeology is also relevant to the understanding and amelioration of modern problems. Though archaeologists have commonly been associated with efforts to uncover cultural identity, ...
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Maya Civilization
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T Patrick Culbert, Jeremy A Sabloff (Designer)
This book describes the new model of classic Maya civilization--emphasizing the competition and warfare between great cities--that has emerged from a major decipherment of Maya writing and other research.
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1st Cities
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Anthony P Andrews, Ap Andrews, Jeremy A Sabloff (Editor)
Written by leading scholars, each book in this series provides an up-to-date assessment of a particular area of the ancient world. Abundantly illustrated in full color, the series places readers at the cutting edge of modern archaeological thinking. Ranging from the Shang civilization in China to the Cities of the Gods in Mesoamerica, this book ...
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Simulations in Archaeology
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Jeremy A. Sabloff (Editor)
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The Aztec World
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Elizabeth Boone, Jeremy A. Sabloff (Editor)
Drawing on findings from the recently excavated Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, Boone explains how one Aztec group, the Mexica, rose to remarkable prominence in less than two hundred years and why they succumbed so easily to Hernan Cortes in 1521.
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Two Lyres from Ur
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Maude de Schauensee, Jeremy A Sabloff (Foreword by), Maude de Schauensee
During the 1928-29 season at Ur, in the Great Death Pit of the Royal Cemetery, C. Leonard Woolley discovered two spectacular musical instruments-a silver Boat-shaped Lyre and a magnificent lyre with the head of a bull made of gold sheet and a lapis lazuli beard. This book chronicles their history, conservation, and reconservation. While little was ...
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Leadership Strategies, Economic Activity, and Interregional Interaction: Social Complexity in Northeast China
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Gideon Shelach (Editor), Jeremy A Sabloff (Foreword by)
An attempt to render Chinese archaeology more accessible to Western readers through a detailed case study of approximately 16,000 years of cultural development in northeastern China. The author addresses prehistoric sociopolitical processes in the Dongbei region through an analysis of both his and other researchers' field data and demonstrates the ...
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Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala, II, 1. Artifacts. 2. a Reconnaissance of Cancuen. 3. a Brief Reconnaissance of Itzan
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Gordon Randolph Willey, Gair Tourtellot, III, Jeremy A Sabloff
Seibal is a major ruin of the southern Maya lowlands, its vast ceremonial center covering several high hills on the banks of the Pasion River in the Guatemalan Department of Peten. In five volumes published over a 15-year period, the archaeological team headed by Gordon R. Willey presents a comprehensive review of their fieldwork from 1964 to 1968 ...
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Archaeology : myth and reality : readings from Scientific American
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Jeremy A. Sabloff
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Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala, III, 1. Major Architecture and Caches. 2. Analyses of Fine Paste Ceramics
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A Ledyard Smith, Jeremy A Sabloff, Ronald L Bishop
Seibal is a major ruin of the southern Maya lowlands, its vast ceremonial center covering several high hills on the banks of the Pasion River in the Guatemalan Department of Peten. In five volumes published over a 15-year period, the archaeological team headed by Gordon R. Willey presents a comprehensive review of their fieldwork from 1964 to 1968 ...
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American Archaeology, Past and Future: A Celebration of the Society for American Archaeology, 1935-1985
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David J Meltzer (Editor), Don D Fowler (Editor), Jeremy A Sabloff (Editor)
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Ancient Civilizations: The Near East and Mesoamerica
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Jeremy A. Sabloff, C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
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Gordon R. Willey and American Archeology: Contemporary Perspectives
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Jeremy A Sabloff (Editor), William Leonard Fash (Editor)
Gauging the impact of one scholar's contributions to modern archaeology
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Pre-Columbian archaeology : readings from Scientific American
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Gordon Randolph Willey, Jeremy A. Sabloff
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Arch: Myth and Reality (Sa)
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Jeremy A Sabloff (Designer)
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