This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

City plans symbolizing cosmologies have long been recognized as a defining element of
Mesoamerican civilizations. The origins of formal spatial configurations are thus the key to …

This final chapter situates Classic Maya burials within the greater landscape of Maya
communities and kingdoms. As is true of most lineage-organized societies, ancestors …

An important new look at Cold War art on both sides of the Atlantic In October 1962, a set of
blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse …

Understanding the ways in which human communities define themselves in relation to
landscapes has been one of the crucial research questions in anthropology. The present …

Maya astronomical tables are recognized in bark-paper books from the Late Postclassic
period (1300 to 1521 CE), but Classic period (200 to 900 CE) precursors have not been …

The original formulation of the “Anthropocene” emphasized the global environmental
change resulting from expanding human populations and fossil fuel burning since the …

The Classic Maya of the southern lowlands were one with world rather than one with nature,
a view that promoted the conservation of their world for millennia, what I term a cosmology of …

The reasons for the development and collapse of Maya civilization remain controversial and
historical events carved on stone monuments throughout this region provide a remarkable …

Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos explores the sociocultural significance of more than three
hundred Middle Preclassic Maya figurines uncovered at the site of Nixtun-Ch'ich'on Lake …