Bücher der Reihe The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies

This volume gathers papers from twenty prominent Mesoamerican archaeologists, linguists, and ethnographers to present a state-of-the-art survey of ritual cave use in Mesoamerica from Pre-Columbian times to the present.

The first comprehensive study of Olmec foodways and subsistence patterns and their relation to the development of institutionalized leadership.

A major reconstruction of the rituals, cosmology, ideology, and political structures of the prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and Southeastern United States.

Advancing the study of prehistoric Mississippian art that began in Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms, this volume presents a groundbreaking examination of regional variations in the shared iconography of indigenous cultures in the southeastern United States.

A history of and collection of translated plays from Mexico's most renowned Mayan theatre group.

A pioneering interpretation of an ancient Mixtec painted book that offers a unique window into how the Mixtecs themselves viewed their social and political cosmos.

The contributors to this volume present extensive new evidence from archaeology, iconography, and epigraphy to offer a more nuanced understanding of the interaction between the Early Classic Maya and Teotihuacan.

Rice builds a new model of Classic lowland Maya (AD 179-948) political organization and political geography.

This ambitious study argues that Maya stelae were erected not only to support a ruler's temporal claims to power but more importantly to express the fundamental connection in Maya worldview between rulership and the cosmology inherent in their vision of c

A study of a major piece of modern Mayan religious art.

This pathfinding ethnography investigates how Indian concepts of the soul offer a new way of understanding personhood and historical memory in highland Chiapas, Mexico.

A masterful art historical analysis of how Late Preclassic (300 BC to AD 250) rulers in Chiapas, Mexico, created an elite visual language to express political and supernatural authority which spread through much of the Maya world.

A pathbreaking investigation of how water and the rituals that invoked an abundant supply of rain were the keys to political power among the ancient Maya.

This book brings together state-of-the-art data and analysis regarding the occupants, ritual and residential uses, and social and cosmological meanings of Maya palaces and elite residences.