Andrea Cucina

Janaab' Pakal of Palenque

Reconstructing the Life and Death of a Maya Ruler

Edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina

The University of Arizona Press

Excavations of Maya burial vaults at Palenque, Mexico, half a century ago revealed what was then the most extraordinary tomb finding of the pre-Columbian world; its discovery has been crucial to an understanding of the dynastic history and ideology of the ancient Maya. This volume communicates the broad scope of applied interdisciplinary research conducted on the Pakal remains to provide answers to old disputes over the accuracy of both skeletal and epigraphic studies, along with new questions in the field of Maya dynastic research. A benchmark in biological anthropology that presents an updated study of a well-known personage, the volume also offers innovative approaches to the biocultural and interdisciplinary re-creation of Maya dynastic history.

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Before Kukulkán

Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxuná

By Vera Tiesler, Andrea Cucina, Travis W. Stanton, and David A. Freidel; Foreword by Traci Ardren

The University of Arizona Press

This volume illuminates human lifeways in the northern Maya lowlands prior to the rise of Chichén Itzá. Using bioarchaeology, mortuary archaeology, and culturally sensitive mainstream archaeology, the authors create an in-depth regional understanding while also laying out broader ways of learning about the Maya past.

Copyright year: 2017

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Crossing the Borders

New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean

Edited by Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L. P. Hoogland, and Annelou L. van Gijn

University of Alabama Press

Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques

Copyright year: 2008

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Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Colonial Campeche

History and Archaeology

Edited by Vera Tiesler, Pilar Zabala, and Andrea Cucina

University Press of Florida

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Bioarchaeology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

An Interdisciplinary Approach

Edited by Cathy Willermet and Andrea Cucina

University Press of Florida

This volume offers a novel interdisciplinary view of the migration, mobility, ethnicity, and social identities of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican peoples. In studies that combine bioarchaeology, ethnohistory, isotope data, and dental morphology, contributors demonstrate the challenges and rewards of such integrative work when applied to large regional questions of population history.

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Janaab' Pakal of Palenque

Reconstructing the Life and Death of a Maya Ruler

Edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina

The University of Arizona Press

Excavations of Maya burial vaults at Palenque, Mexico, half a century ago revealed what was then the most extraordinary tomb finding of the pre-Columbian world; its discovery has been crucial to an understanding of the dynastic history and ideology of the ancient Maya. This volume communicates the broad scope of applied interdisciplinary research conducted on the Pakal remains to provide answers to old disputes over the accuracy of both skeletal and epigraphic studies, along with new questions in the field of Maya dynastic research. A benchmark in biological anthropology that presents an updated study of a well-known personage, the volume also offers innovative approaches to the biocultural and interdisciplinary re-creation of Maya dynastic history.

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Mesoamerican Osteobiographies

Revealing the Lives and Deaths of Ancient Individuals

Edited by Gabriel D. Wrobel and Andrea Cucina

University of Florida Press

Drawing from a variety of sites throughout Mesoamerica, this volume presents a collection of osteobiographies, which analyze skeletons and their surroundings alongside historical, archaeological, ethnographic, and other contextual data to better understand the life experiences of individuals.

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