In the maw of the earth monster : mesoamerican ritual cave use /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a history of Mesoamerican cave interpretation / James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer
- Rites of passage and other ceremonies in caves / Doris Heyden
- The cave-pyramid complex among the contemporary Nahua of northern Veracruz / Alan R. Sandstrom
- Constructing mythic space : the significance of a chicomoztoc complex at Acatzingo Viejo / Manuel Aguilar ... [et al.]
- Pre-Hispanic rain ceremonies in Blade Cave, Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca, Mexico / Janet Fitzsimmons
- Sacred caves and rituals from the northern Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico : new revelations / Carlos Rincón Mautner
- Some notes on ritual caves among the ancient and modern Maya / Evon Z. Vogt and David Stuart
- Shamans, caves, and the roles of ritual specialists in Maya society / Keith M. Prufer
- Cave stelae and megalithic monuments in western Belize / Jaime J. Awe, Cameron Griffith, and Sherry Gibbs
- A cognitive approach to artifact distribution in caves of the Maya area / Andrea Stone
- Cluster concentrations, boundary markers, and ritual pathways : a GIS analysis of artifact cluster patterns at Actun Tunichil, Muknal, Belize / Holley Moyes
- Ethnographic notes on Maya Q'eqchi' cave rites : implications for archaeological interpretation / Abigail E. Adams and James E. Brady
- A Lacandon religious ritual in the cave of the god Tsibaná at the holy lake of Mensabok in the rainforest of Chiapas / Jaroslaw Theodore Petryshyn
- Beneath the Yalahau : emerging patterns of ancient Maya ritual cave use from northern Quintana Roo, Mexico / Dominique Rissolo
- Caves, karst, and settlement at Mayapán, Yucatán / Clifford T. Brown
- Concluding comments / Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady.