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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Ancient Maya: New Perspectives (edizione 2006)di Heather McKillop (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Generally good detailed survey of all aspects of preculumbian Maya culture. Some of it is a bit dry, but overall readable. The author writes as a "dirt" archaeologist with experiemce excavating Maya sites in Belize that were more important for econom ics (salt prodiction) than the spectacular temples and palaces. She seems to be fair describing alternatives to her own theories. Although unlike some "dirt" archaeologists, she is not hostile to the epigraphers who can now read Maya inscriptions, she does not seem to understand the history of the decipherment very well. Her brief account of it is derivative and seems to confuise some points in her sources (which I've read) --at one point she has Thompson thinking the Landa alphabet was "etters "hen he thought it was misunderstood logograms. Later on, she has a more correct version, but it could be better. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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This is an introduction to the Mayan civilization, including new interpretations and ongoing controversies. The book features examples of artifacts such as the murals of Bonampak and the Hieroglyphic Stairway of Copan. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The other letdown from my perspective was the failure - or rather the lack of any attempt - to bring the Mayan civilization to life. But that's not really the intention of this book.
As a survey of Mayan scholarship and the archaeological record this is very good, but I suspect most readers will want something a little different, or a little extra. ( )