Main entry:

Palenque Round Table (6th : 1986)

Title & Author:

Sixth Palenque Round Table, 1986 / Merle Greene Robertson, general editor ; Virginia M. Fields, volume editor.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©1991.

Description:

xiv, 359 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Series:

The Palenque Round Table series ; v. 8

Notes:
"The Sixth Palenque Round Table Conference was held from June 8-14, 1986, at Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-355) and index.
Historical notes on the discovery of the ruins, the founding of the town, and the origin and significance of the name of Palenque / Arnulfo Hardy González -- The demotion of Chac-Zutz': lineage compounds and subsidiary lords at Palenque / Linda Schele -- The narrative structure of hieroglyphic texts at Palenque / J. Kathryn Josserand -- Cycles of time: Caracol in the Maya realm / Arlen F. Chase -- Dedication ceremonies at Chichén Itzá: the glyphic evidence / Ruth Krochock -- The Great Ball Court stone from Chichén Itzá / Linnea H. Wren -- Symbolism of the Maya ball game at Copán: synthesis and new aspects / Jeff Karl Kowalski and William L. Fash -- Lineage patrons and ancestor worship among the classic Maya nobility: the case of Copán Structure 9N-82 / William L. Fash -- The cross pattern at Copán: forms, rituals, and meanings / Claude F. Baudez -- Lifeline to the gods: ritual bloodletting at Santa Rita Corozal / Diane Z. Chase -- TIalocs at Uxmal / Ruben Maldonado C. and Beatriz Repetto Tio -- The period-ending stelae of Yaxchilán / Carolyn Tate -- The Structure 8 tablet and development of the Great Plaza at Yaxchilán / Ramón Carrasco V. -- Damming the Usumacinta: the archaeological impact / S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson -- The Teotihuacán-Kaminaljuyu-Tikal connection: a view from the south coast of Guatemala / Frederick J. Bove -- Olmec bloodletting: an iconographic study / Rosemary A. Joyce, Richard Edging, Karl Lorenz, and Susan D. Gillespie -- Olmec iconographic influences on the symbols of Maya rulership: an examination of possible sources / F. Kent Reilly, III -- The iconographic heritage of the Maya jester god / Virginia M. Fields -- The bearer, the burden, and the burnt: the stacking principle in the iconography of the late preclassic Maya lowlands / David A. Freidel, Maria Masucci, Susan Jaeger, and Robin A. Robertson -- Beyond rainstorms: the Kawak as an ancestor, warrior, and patron of witchcraft / Joanne M. Spero -- Aspects of impersonation in classic Maya art / Andrea Stone -- The Maya 'posture of royal ease' / Anne-Louise Schaffer -- The 'Holmul dancer' theme in Maya art / Dorie Reents-Budet -- An investigation of the primary standard sequence on classic Maya ceramics / Nikolai Grube -- A study of the fish-in-hand glyph, T714: part I / Diane Winters -- Jaws II: return of the xoc / Tom Jones -- Classic and modern relationship terms and the 'child of mother' glyph (TI:606.23) / Nicholas A. Hopkins -- Prepositions and complementizers in the classic period inscriptions / Martha J. Macri -- Aspects of polyvalency in Maya writing: affixes T12, T229, and T110 / Dieter Dütting -- Faunal offerings in the Dresden codex / Victoria R. Bricker -- A text from the Dresden New Year pages / Bruce Love -- Codex Dresden: late postclassic ceramic depictions and the problems of provenience and date of painting / Merideth Paxton -- The real Venus-Kukulcan in the Maya inscriptions and alignments / Anthony Aveni -- Artificial intelligence meets Maya epigraphy / Jorge L. Orejel Opisso.

ISBN:

0806122773 (alk. paper)
9780806122779 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Mayas Antiquities Congresses.
Indians of Mexico Antiquities Congresses.
Indians of Central America Antiquities Congresses.
Mayas Antiquités Congrès.
Peuples autochtones Mexique Antiquités Congrès.
Peuples autochtones Amérique centrale Antiquités Congrès.
15.85 history of America.
Indians of Central America Antiquities.
Indians of Mexico Antiquities.
Mayas Antiquities.
Maya's.
Kunst.
Inscripties.
Vorstenhuizen.
Indiens Mexique Antiquités Congrès.
Indiens, Attitudes envers les Amérique latine Antiquités Congrès.
Palenque Site (Mexico) Congresses.
Palenque (Mexique : Site archéologique) Congrès.
Mexico Palenque Site.
Palenque (Mexique ; site archéologique) Congrès.

Form/genre:

Proceedings.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Congresses (form)
Congresses.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Robertson, Merle Greene.
Fields, Virginia M.
Palenque Round Table. Palenque Round Table series ; v. 8.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271769
Call No.: BIB 205011
Status: Available