The Bioarchaeology of Space and Place Ideology, Power, and Meaning in Maya Mortuary Contexts / [electronic resource] :
edited by Gabriel D. Wrobel.
- New York, NY : Springer New York, 2014.
- 1 online resource (XI, 292 p. 62 ill., 28 ill. in color.)
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Sedimenting Social Identity: The Practice of Pre-Columbian Maya Body Partibility -- Chapter 3: Cueva del Lazo: Child Sacrifice or Special Funerary Treatment? Discussion of a Late Classic Context from the Zoque region of Western Chiapas (Mexico) -- Chapter 4: A Case Study of Reverential Cave Use from Je'reftheel, Central Belize -- Chapter 5: Isotopic Insights into Mortuary Treatment and Origin at Xunantunich, Belize -- Chapter 6: Odontometric Investigation of the Origin of Freestanding Shrine Ossuaries at Mayapan -- Chapter 7: Human Dedicatory Burials from Altun Ha, Belize: Exploring Residential History Through Enamel Microwear and Tissue Isotopic Compositions -- Chapter 8: Danse Macabre: Death, Community and Kingdom at El Kinel, Guatemala -- Chapter 9: Mortuary Pathways and Ritual Meanings Related to Maya Human Bone Deposits in Subterranean Contexts -- Chapter 10: Mortuary Sealing Among the Maya.
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Social sciences. Cultural heritage. Anthropology. Archaeology.