Author: T. Patrick Culbert
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Keywords: tikal, report, problematical, deposits, caches, vessels, 25a, ceramics, burials
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0924171200
ISBN-13: 9780924171208

This monograph contains the illustrations and descriptions of ceramics from special deposits (the burials, caches, and problematical deposits) from the central area of Tikal. These include the best-preserved whole vessels and elaborate polychrome painted and stuccoed cylinders, urns, and tripod vessels with appliquéd and painted ornament, and figural representations.Glyphs painted on some of these ceramics provide insights into the potentially royal lineage of the individuals. The ceramic sequence includes ten complexes dating between 800 B.C. (Middle Preclassic) and ca. A.D. 1200 (Postclassi

Author: Hattula Moholy-Nagy
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Keywords: tikal, artifacts, material, unworked, utilitarian, report, 27b
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1931707405
ISBN-13: 9781931707404

Occupied continuously for 1,500 years, Tikal was the most important demographic, economic, administrative, and ritual center of its region. The collection of materials recovered at Tikal is the largest and most diverse known from the Lowlands. This book provides a major body of primary data. The artifacts, represented by such raw materials as chert and shell are classified by type, number, condition, possible ancient use, form, material, size, and such secondary modifications as decoration and reworking, as well as by spatial distribution, occurrence in the various types of structure groups, r