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Bibliography- Mesoamerica

Maya

Altman, Patricia B, and Caroline D. West
1992 Threads of Identity: Maya costume of the 1960's in Highland Guatemala. Los Angeles, CA: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California.

Coe, Michael D. and Justin Kerr
1998 The Art of the Maya Scribe. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Coe, Michael and Mark Van Stone
2001 Reading the Maya Glyphs. London: Thames & Hudson.

Culbert, T.P.
1998 The New Maya. Archaeology 51(5): 48-51.

Dietrich, Mary G, and Jon T. Erickson, Erin Younger
1979 Guatemalan Costumes. The Heard Museum Collection. Phoenix, AZ: The Heard Museum

Demarest, Arthur A.
1993 The Violent Saga of a Maya Kingdom. National Geographic 183(2): 95-111.

Fash, William L.
1991 Scribes, Warriors & Kings: The City of Copán and the Ancient Maya. London: Thames and Hudson.

Fasquelle, Ricardo Agurcia and William L. Fash
1989 Copán: A Royal Maya Tomb Discovered. National Geographic 176(4): 481-504.

Graham, Elizabeth
1987 Terminal Classic to Historic-Period Vessel Forms from Belize. In Maya Ceramics: Papers from the 1985 Maya Ceramic Conference, P.M. Rice and R.J. Sharer (eds) BAR International Series 345(i):73-98.

1991 Archaeological Insights into Colonial Period Maya Life at Tipu, Belize. In Columbian Consequences, Volume 3: The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspective. D.H. Thomas (ed.). Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

1994 The Highlands of the Lowlands: Environment and Archaeology in the Stann Creek District, Belize, Central America. Madison: Prehistory Press.

Graham, Elizabeth, Grant D. Jones and David M. Pendergast
1989 On the Fringes of Conquest: Maya-Spanish Contact in Colonial Belize. Science 246:1254-1259.

Hammond, Norman
1990 Ancient Maya Civilization. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Harrison, Peter D.
1999 The Lords of Tikal: Rulers of an Ancient Maya City. New York: Thames and Hudson.

Houston, Stephen D.

1993 Hieroglyphs and History at Dos Pilas: Dynastic Politics of the Classic Maya. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Jones, C.
1984 Deciphering Maya Hieroglyphics (2nd Ed.) Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.

King, Mary Elizabeth
1966 Village Costumes of Guatemala and Mexico. Washington, DC: Textile Museum.

Kowalski, Jeff Karl
1987 The House of the Governor: A Maya Palace at Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press.

Pendergast, David M.
1971 Evidence of Early Teotihuacan-Lowland Maya Contact at Altun Ha. American Antiquity 36(4): 455-460.

1979 Excavations at Altun Ha, Belize, Vol. 1, 1964-1970. Toronto : Royal Ontario Museum.

1981 Lamanai, Belize: Summary of Excavation Results, 1974-1980. Journal of Field Archaeology 8:1, 29-53.

1985 Lamanai, Belize: An Updated View. In The Lowland Maya Postclassic. ed. by Arlen F. Chase and Prudence M. Rice, pp. 91-103. Austin: University of Texas Press.

1986 The Ancient Maya: Life in the Slow Lane. Rotunda 18(4):18-23.

1992 Noblesse Oblige: The Elites of Altun Ha and Lamanai, Belize. In Mesoamerican Elites: An Archaeological Assessment. D.Z. Chase and A.F. Chase (eds.) Norman: University of Oaklahoma Press.

Pendergast, David M. and Elizabeth Graham
1993 La Mezcla de Arqueología y Ethnohistoria: El Estudio del Período Hispánico en los Sitios de Tipu y Lamanai, Belice. In Perspectivas Antropológicas en el Mundo Maya, ed. by Maria Josefa Iglesias Ponce de León and Francesc Ligorred Perramon, pp. 331-353. Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas y Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, Madrid.

Proskouriakoff, T.
1993 Maya History. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Reents-Budet, Dorie
1994 Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period. Durham: Duke University Press.

1999 Maya Universe: Classic Maya Art, Patronage and Culture, AD 250 - 1600. Potpourri. Newsletter of The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 9(Fall): 12-13.

Reina, Ruben and Robert M. Hill, II
1978 The Traditional Pottery of Guatemala. Austin: The University of Texas Press.

Rowe, Ann Pollard
1981 A Century of Change in Guatemalan Textiles. New York: Center for Inter-American Studies.

Sabloff, J.A.
1990 The New Archaeology and The Ancient Maya. New York: Scientific American Library.

Schele, Linda and David Freidel
1990 A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.

Schele, Linda and Nikolai Grube
1996 The Workshop for Maya on Hieroglyphic Writing. In Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala. E. F. Fischer and R. McKenna Brown (eds.) Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 131-140.

Schele, Linda and Peter Mathews
1998 The Code of Kings :the Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs. New York: Scribner.

Schele, Linda and L. Miller
1986 The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art. New York: George Braziller, Inc. in association with Fort Worth: The Kimbell Art Museum.

Schevill, Margot Blum
1985 Evolution in Textile Design From the Highlands of Guatemala. The occasional papers, no. 1. Berkeley: University of California. Lowie Museum of Anthropology.

Schevill, Margot Blum, and Linda Asturias, Robert S. Carlsen, James D. Nations
1997 The Maya Textile Tradition. New York: Harry N. Abrams

Schevill, Margot Blum, and Christopher H. Lutz
1993 Maya Textiles of Guatemala: the Gustavus A. Eisen Collection, 1902, The Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press.

Schmidt, Peter, Mercedes de la Garza and Enrique Nalda, (eds.)
1998 Maya. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.

Sharer, Robert J.
1994 The Ancient Maya (5th ed.) Stanford: Stanford University Press.

1999 Archaeology and History in the Royal Acropolis, Copan, Honduras. Expedition 41(2): 8-15.

Stierlin, H.
1997 The Maya: Palaces and Pyramids of the Rainforest. Köln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH.

Stuart, David and Stephen Houston

1994 Classic Maya Place Names. (Studies in Pre-Columbian Art & Archaeology, No. 33). Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

Taylor, Dicey
2000 A Chocolate Cup for Eternity in the Road of Awe: The Detroit Cylinder Tripod. Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume 74 (No 1/2): 4-20.

Tedlock, Dennis (translation)
1996 Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Mesoamerica: General

Anawalt, Patricia Rieff
1981 Indian Clothing Before Cortes: Mesoamerican Costumes from the Codices. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Miller, Mary and Karl Taube

1996 The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya: An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Religion. London: Thames and Hudson.

Sayer, Chloë
1985 Costumes of Mexico. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press

1988 Mexican Textile Techniques. Aylesbury: Shire Publications.

1990 Arts and Crafts of Mexico. San Francisco: Chronicale Books

Aztec

Anawalt, Patrica R.
1980 Costume and Control: Aztec Sumptuary Laws. Archaeology 33:33-43.

Berdan, Frances. F.
1987 Cotton in Aztec Mexico. Mexican Studies 3:235.

Carrasco, David and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
1992 Moctezuma's Mexico: Visions of the Aztec World. Niwat: University Press of Colorado.

Hicks, Fredric
1994 Cloth and the Political Economy of the Aztec State. In Economies and Polities in the Aztec Realm, edited by Mary G. Hodge and Michael E. Smith, pp.89-112. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies. State University of New York at Albany.

Nichols, D. L., M. J. McLaughlin, and M. Benton
2000. Production Intensification and Regional Specialization: Maguey fibers and textiles in the Aztec city-state of Otumba. Ancient Mesoamerica 1:267-291.

Smith, Michael E.
1996 The Aztecs. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Olmec

Benson, Elizabeth P. and Beatriz de la Fuenta (eds).
1996 Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico. Washington: National Gallery of Art.

Clark, John E. and Mary E. Pye (eds.).
2000 Olmec Art and Archaeology in Mesoamerica. Washington: National Gallery of Art.

Coe, Michael D. and Richard A. Diehl, David A. Friedel, Peter T. Furst, et al
1992 The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership. Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University.

Demarest, Arthur A.
1989 The Olmec and the Rise of Civilization in Eastern Mesoamerica. In Regional Perspectives on the Olmec. R.J. Sharer and D.C. Grove (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 303-344.

Graham, John
1989 Olmec Diffusion: A Sculptural View From Pacific Guatemala. In Regional Perspectives on the Olmec. R.J. Sharer and D.C. Grove (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.227-246.

Teotihuacan

Berrin, Kathleen and Esther Pasztory (eds.)
1992 Teotihuacan: Art from the City of the Gods. New York: Thames and Hudson Inc; and San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

West Mexico

Townsend, Richard F. (ed).
1998 Ancient West Mexico, Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past. Chicago: The Art Institute of America.

Zapotec

Blanton, Richard E. et al
1999 Ancient Oaxaca: The Monte Alban State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Marcus, Joyce and Kent V. Flannery
1996 Zapotec Civilization, How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico’s Oaxaca Valley. London: Thames and Hudson.

Sellen, Adam
1999 Rediscovering Zapotec Urns at the ROM. Royal Ontario Museum Archaeological Newsletter, Series III, No. 8.