Before Kukulkán : Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxuná / Vera Tiesler, Andrea Cucina, Travis W. Stanton and David A. Freidel ; foreword by Traci Ardren.
Material type: TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2017Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (400 pages): illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
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- 9780816541713
- Mayas -- Social life and customs
- Mayas -- Antiquities
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Fouilles (Archeologie) -- Mexique -- Yaxuná (Site archeologique)
- Mayas -- Yucatán (Peninsule) -- Moeurs et coutumes
- Mayas -- Antiquites
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Yaxuná Site
- Mayas -- Yucatán Peninsula -- Social life and customs
- Mayas -- Antiquities
- Mexico -- Yaxuná Site
- Central America -- Yucatán Peninsula
Foreword by Traci Ardren; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Bioarchaeology of YaxunÃ; Part I. Living at YaxunÃ; 1. Yaxunà in Context; 2. Individual Movement, Migration, and Population Dynamics in the Northern Maya Lowlands; 3. Growing Up in YaxunÃ: Demography, Lifestyle, and Health in a Classic Period Capital; 4. Foodways, Diet, and Nutrition; 5. Physical Embodiment and Social Identities at YaxunÃ; Part II. YaxunÃâ#x80;#x99;s Dead; 6. Passing, Mourning, and Procuring Permanence; 7. Eternal Performance: The Royal Tombs.
8. Feeding the Gods in YaxunÃ: Sacrifice and Human Caches9. The Cycling of an Era: ChichÃn Itzà and the Decline of YaxunÃ; Notes; References.
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