Cenote Of Sacrifice
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Author |
: Clemency Chase Coggins |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2014-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781477302736 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1477302735 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cenote of Sacrifice by : Clemency Chase Coggins
Chichén Itzá ("mouth of the well of the Itza") was one of the great centers of civilization in prehistoric America, serving between the eighth and twelfth centuries A.D. as a religious, economic, social, and political capital on the Yucatán Peninsula. Within the ancient city there were many natural wells or cenotes. One, within the ceremonial heart of the city, is an impressive natural feature with vertical limestone walls enclosing a deep pool of jade green water some eighty feet below ground level. This cenote, which gave the city its name, became a sacred shrine of Maya pilgrimage, described by one post-Conquest observer as similar to Jerusalem and Rome. Here, during the city's ascendancy and for centuries after its decline, the peoples of Yucatán consulted their gods and made ritual offerings of precious objects and living victims who were thought to receive prophecies. Although the well was described by Bishop Diego de Landa in the late sixteenth century, its contents were not known until the early 1900s when revealed by the work of Edward H. Thompson. Conducting excavations for the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, Thompson recovered almost thirty thousand artifacts, most ceremonially broken and many beautifully preserved by burial in the deep silt at the bottom of the well. The materials were sent to the Peabody Museum, where they remained, unexhibited, for over seventy years. In 1984, for the first time, nearly three hundred objects of gold, jade, copper, pottery, wood, copal, textile, and other materials from the collection were gathered into a traveling interpretive exhibition. No other archaeological exhibition had previously given this glimpse into Maya ritual life because no other collection had objects such as those found in the Sacred Cenote. Moreover, the objects from the Cenote come from throughout Mesoamerica and lower Central America, representing many artistic traditions. The exhibit and this, its accompanying catalog, marked the first time all of the different kinds of offerings have ever been displayed together, and the first time many have been published. Essays by Gordon R. Willey and Linnea H. Wren place the Cenote of Sacrifice and the great Maya city of Chichén Itzá within the larger context of Maya archaeology and history. The catalog entries, written by Clemency Chase Coggins, describe the objects displayed in the traveling exhibition. Some entries are brief descriptive statements; others develop short scholarly themes bearing on the function and interpretation of specific objects. Coggins' introductory essay describes how the objects were collected by Thompson and how the exhibition collection has been studied to reveal the periods of Cenote ritual and the changing practices of offering to the Sacred Cenote.
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: REC 2/25/2019 |
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ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1096387764 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Artifacts from the Cenote of Sacrifice by : REC 2/25/2019
Author |
: Tatiana Proskouriakoff |
Publisher |
: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Publications Department |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1974 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105007388577 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jades from the Cenote of Sacrifice, Chichen Itza, Yucatan by : Tatiana Proskouriakoff
Author |
: Vera Tiesler |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 327 |
Release |
: 2007-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780387488714 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0387488715 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society by : Vera Tiesler
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
Author |
: Clemency Coggins |
Publisher |
: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Publications Department |
Total Pages |
: 430 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105007388593 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Artifacts from the Cenote of Sacrifice, Chichen Itza, Yucatan by : Clemency Coggins
In this volume, specialists analyze the great variety of objects found in the Well of Sacrifice and debate whether they represent evidence of dateable prehistorical ritual. The collection includes the rare remains of hundreds of textiles, wooden objects, and copal incense offerings, as well as lithics, ceramics, and bone and shell artifacts.
Author |
: Clemency Chase Coggins |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1477302727 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781477302729 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cenote of Sacrifice by : Clemency Chase Coggins
Author |
: Alfred Marston Tozzer |
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Total Pages |
: 86 |
Release |
: 1957 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:253280094 |
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: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reference Material and Illustrations by : Alfred Marston Tozzer
Author |
: Samuel Kirkland Lothrop |
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Total Pages |
: 162 |
Release |
: 1952 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105033562849 |
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: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Metals from the Cenote of Sacrifice, Chichen Itza, Yucatan by : Samuel Kirkland Lothrop
Author |
: Sylvanus Griswold Morley |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 940 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804721300 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804721301 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ancient Maya by : Sylvanus Griswold Morley
"Comprehensive synthesis of ancient Maya scholarship. Extensive summary of the archaeology of the Maya world provides the historical context for a detailed topical synthesis of chronological and geographic variability within the Maya cultural tradition"--
Author |
: Alfred Marston Tozzer |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 1957 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0873656849 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780873656849 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chichen Itza and Its Cenote of Sacrifice by : Alfred Marston Tozzer