Images from the Underworld : : Naj Tunich and the Tradition of Maya Cave Painting /

Images from the Underworld : : Naj Tunich and the Tradition of Maya Cave Painting / / Andrea J. Stone.

In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten, Guatemala. One of the world's few deep caves that contain rock art, Naj Tunich features figural images and hieroglyphic inscriptions that have helped to revolutionize...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Stone, Andrea J.,
MitwirkendeR:
MacLeod, Barbara,
Stone, Andrea,
Veni, George,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1995
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Topographic Context of Maya Cave Painting
  • 3 A Further Exploration of Topographic Context: The Mesoamerican Landscape and the Cave
  • 4 Maya and Mesoamerican Cave Painting: A Survey of Sites and Images
  • 5 Naj Tunich: An Introduction to the Site and Its Art
  • 6 Images from Naj Tunich
  • 7 The Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of Naj Tunich
  • 8 A Catalog of Naj Tunich Paintings and Petroglyphs
  • 9 Maya Cave Painting: Summary of a Tradition
  • APPENDIX A The Geologic Context of Maya Cave Paintings
  • APPENDIX B Standard Cave Map Symbols
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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