: Vera Tiesler, Andrea Cucina.
: Vera Tiesler, Andrea Cucina
: New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society
: Springer-Verlag
: 9780387488714
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: CHF 139.90
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: Altertum
: English
: 319
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This book examines Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. The editors bring together an international group of contributors from the area studied: archaeologists as well as anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, art historians and bioarchaeologists. This interdisciplinary approach provides a comprehensive perspective on these sites as well as the material culture and biological evidence found there
List of Contributors7
Table of Contents9
New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Postsacrificial Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society: An Introduction11
Funerary or Nonfunerary? New References in Identifying Ancient Maya Sacrificial and Postsacrificial Behaviors from Human Assemblages24
The Creation and Sacrifice of Witches in Classic Maya Society55
Empowered and Disempowered During the Late to Terminal Classic Transition: Maya Burial and Termination Rituals in the Sibun Valley, Belize84
Posthumous Body Treatments and Ritual Meaning in the Classic Period Northern Petén: A Taphonomic Approach112
Human Sacrifice in Late Postclassic Maya Iconography and Texts130
Skeletons, Skulls, and Bones in the Art of Chichén Itzá175
Sacrifice and Ritual Body Mutilation in Postclassical Maya Society: Taphonomy of the Human Remains from Chichén Itzá’s Cenote Sagrado200
Sacred Spaces and Human Funerary and Nonfunerary Placements in Champotón, Campeche, During the Postclassic Period219
Human Sacrificial Rites Among the Maya of Mayapán: A Bioarchaeological Perspective242
Nutrition, Lifestyle, and Social Status of Skeletal Remains from Nonfunerary and “Problematical” Contexts261
Victims of Sacrifice: Isotopic Evidence for Place of Origin273
The Bioarchaeology of Maya Sacrifice303
Subject Index318