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Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica
Empirical Approaches to Mesoamerican Archaeology
Edited by Nancy Gonlin and Kirk D. French
University Press of Colorado
Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands
Integration, Interaction, Dissolution
Edited by Damien B. Marken and James L. Fitzsimmons
University Press of Colorado
The Myth of Quetzalcoatl
Religion, Rulership, and History in the Nahua World
By Alfredo López Austin; Translated by Russ Davidson, with Guilhem Olivier; Foreword by Davíd Carrasco
University Press of Colorado
Surplus
The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life
Edited by Christopher T. Morehart and Kristin De Lucia
University Press of Colorado
Memory Traces
Analyzing Sacred Space at Five Mesoamerican Sites
Edited by Cynthia Kristan-Graham and Laura M. Amrhein
University Press of Colorado
Heritage Keywords
Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage
Edited by Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico
University Press of Colorado
Aztec Philosophy
Understanding a World in Motion
By James Maffie
University Press of Colorado
In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought.
Kukulcan's Realm
Urban Life at Ancient Mayapán
By Marilyn Masson and Carlos Peraza Lope
University Press of Colorado
Kukulcan's Realm chronicles the fabric of socioeconomic relationships and religious practice that bound the Postclassic Maya city of Mayapán's urban residents together for nearly three centuries. Presenting results of ten years of household archaeology at the city, including field research and laboratory analysis, the book discusses the social, political, economic, and ideological makeup of this complex urban center.
Thiefing a Chance
Factory Work, Illicit Labor, and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Trinidad
University Press of Colorado
Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology
Edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke and Reinhard Bernbeck
University Press of Colorado
Bridging the Gaps
Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico; A Volume in Memory of Bruce E. Byland
Edited by Danny Zborover and Peter Kroefges
University Press of Colorado
Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies
Edited by Christopher P. Garraty and Barbara L. Stark
University Press of Colorado
Ancient market activities are dynamic in the economies of most ancient states, yet they have received little research from the archaeological community. Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies is the first book to address the development, change, and organizational complexity of ancient markets from a comparative archaeological perspective.
Ancient Zapotec Religion
An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Perspective
By Michael Lind
University Press of Colorado
In the Realm of Nachan Kan
Postclassic Maya Archaeology at Laguna De On, Belize
University Press of Colorado
i>In the Realm of Nachan Kan</i> opens a window on Postclassic Maya patterns of cultural development and organization through a close examination of the small rural island of Laguna de On, a location that was distant from the governing political centers of the day.
Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany
University Press of Colorado
Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making, biodiversity, and global environmental change, and has much to offer to archaeology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary study of human relationships with the natural world. Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany demonstrates those connections and highlights the increasing relevance of the study of past human-plant interactions for understanding the present and future.
Old Blue's Road
A Historian's Motorcycle Journeys in the American West
University Press of Colorado
Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World
Edited by Benjamin S. Arbuckle and Sue Ann McCarty
University Press of Colorado
Wyoming Revisited
Rephotographing the Scenes of Joseph E. Stimson
University Press of Colorado
In Wyoming Revisited, Michael A. Amundson uses the power of rephotography to show how landscapes across the state have endured over the last century. Three sets of photographs—the original black-and-white photographs taken by famed Wyoming photographer Joseph E. Stimson more than a century ago, repeat black-and-white images taken by Amundson in the 1980s, and a third view taken by the author in 2007–08—are accompanied by captions explaining the history and importance of each site as well as information on the process of repeat photographic fieldwork.
Sacred Darkness
A Global Perspective on the Ritual Use of Caves
Edited by Holley Moyes
University Press of Colorado
. In Sacred Darkness, contributors use archaeological evidence as well as ethnographic studies of modern ritual practices to envision the cave as place of spiritual and ideological power that emerges as a potent venue for ritual practice.
Gambling Debt
Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy
Edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Gisli Palsson
University Press of Colorado
Elusive Unity
Factionalism and the Limits of Identity Politics in Yucatán, Mexico
University Press of Colorado
In Elusive Unity, Armstrong-Fumero examines early twentieth-century peasant politics and twenty-first-century indigenous politics in the rural Oriente region of Yucatán.
Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East
Recent Contributions from Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology
Edited by Benjamin W. Porter and Alexis T. Boutin
University Press of Colorado
Class Not Dismissed
Reflections on Undergraduate Education and Teaching the Liberal Arts
University Press of Colorado
In Class Not Dismissed, award-winning professor Anthony Aveni tells the personal story of his six decades in college classrooms and some of the 10,000 students who have filled them. Through anecdotes of his own triumphs and tribulations—some amusing, others heartrending—Aveni reveals his teaching story and thoughts on the future of higher education.
No One Ailing Except a Physician
Medicine in the Mining West, 1848-1919
By Duane A. Smith and Ronald C. Brown
University Press of Colorado
No One Ailing Except a Physician takes readers back to those free-wheeling days in the mining towns and the dark recesses of the mines themselves, a time when illness or injury was usually survived more due to sheer luck than the interventions of medicine.
Obsidian Reflections
Symbolic Dimensions of Obsidian in Mesoamerica
Edited by David M. Carballo and Marc Levine
University Press of Colorado
Departing from the political economy perspective taken by the vast majority of volumes devoted to Mesoamerican obsidian, Obsidian Reflections is an examination of obsidian's sociocultural dimensions—particularly in regard to Mesoamerican world view, religion, and belief systems.
Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology
From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains
Edited by Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado
University Press of Colorado
As the Ice Age waned, Clovis hunter-gatherers began to explore and colonize the area now known as Colorado. Their descendents and later Paleoindian migrants spread throughout Colorado's plains and mountains, adapting to diverse landforms and the changing climate. In this new volume, Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado assemble experts in archaeology, paleoecology-climatology, and paleofaunal analysis to share new discoveries about these ancient people of Colorado
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