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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (2): 276.
Published: 01 May 1964
...Charles Gibson Maya Archaeologist . By Thompson J. Eric S. . Norman, Oklahoma , 1963 . University of Oklahoma Press . Maps. Illustrations. Glossary. Index . Pp. xvii , 284 . $5.00 . Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Maya Archaeologist is a volume...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (2): 387–388.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Douglas W. Richmond The Archaeologist Was a Spy: Sylvanus G. Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence . By Harris Charles H. III and Sadler Louis R. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2003 . Photographs. Plate. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (3): 548–550.
Published: 01 August 1974
...R. E. W. Adams In Search of the Maya: The First Archaeologists . By Brunhouse Robert L. . Albuquerque , 1973 . The University of New Mexico Press . Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 243 . Cloth. $7.95 . Copyright 1974 by Duke University Press 1974...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (1): 203–204.
Published: 01 February 1969
...Robert H. Lister The volume is designed for the popular reader. In fact Deuel encountered an unanticipated difficulty in compiling the volume, for American archaeologists have not written many first hand narratives. Instead, a majority of important discoveries are reported only in the dullest...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (1): 161–162.
Published: 01 February 1976
...R. E. W. Adams Pursuit of the Ancient Maya: Some Archaeologists of Yesterday . By Brunhouse Robert L. . Albuquerque , 1975 . University of New Mexico Press . Map. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. viii , 252 . Cloth . $8.95 . Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (1): 43–76.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Mónica Salas Landa Abstract Whereas scholars of postrevolutionary Mexico have long attended to the ideological significance of pre-Hispanic monuments, this article looks at the actual work involved in reconstructing them. Field reports from state archaeologists for the pyramid at Tajín...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (1): 149–151.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Tatiana Seijas The study of Indigenous economic activity (trade, management of resources, craft production, etc.) prior to European contact has primarily been the reserve of archaeologists. Historians have shied away from the topic due to the paucity of written sources but most importantly...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (3): 593–595.
Published: 01 August 2000
... archaeology of slavery was concerned with the search for “Africanisms” or marker artifacts that belied the ethnic origins of the enslaved population. However, more recently archaeologists have abandoned the search for definitive index artifacts in favor of creolization theory or the total archaeological...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (4): 667–668.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of widespread belief in early origins by most archaeologists and art historians, a smaller but powerful group of Mesoamericanists held fast against it, notably Mayanist Sir Eric Thompson, who did not want to see the Maya dethroned from the position of first civilization. Readers of Grove's new book may...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 499–500.
Published: 01 August 2021
... ways. We have long needed just such a book, and I imagine that for many years historians will consult this volume whenever they need to understand more about archaeology's contributions to the study of early Mexico. Early on, the author provides a pithy reminder of what archaeologists can do...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (4): 449.
Published: 01 November 1966
... No one will deny Herbert J. Spinden’s insistence that the finest part of the archaeologist’s quest for ancient cities is intellectual rather than physical, but the present book nonetheless demonstrates that the latter aspect is also revealingly significant. Robert Wauchope recounts his own initiation...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 501–502.
Published: 01 August 2024
... archaeologists to politicians, educators, and artists, each of whom embraced it for their own ends. Throughout the book, Cosentino and Zavala's goal is to examine the “conceptual excavations undertaken by a variety of Mexico City–based thinkers who found new ways to crystallize the form and concept...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (2): 321–322.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Christopher Heaney Still, that they can be named in part by referring to Lane's excellent review of Inca structures speaks to this book's usefulness. Lane's closing acknowledgments to this very good book invoke British archaeologist Ivor Noël Hume's self-effacing framing of archaeology...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (1): 102–104.
Published: 01 February 1981
... people. Each of the sites is approached with a completely different emphasis, reflecting different levels of investigation and analysis. As a result, these works range from being extremely important to historians of Latin America to being primarily of importance to the archaeologists who are now...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (3): 507–508.
Published: 01 August 1981
... respected Maya archaeologists in the profession. The field research for this book was begun in the early 1930s under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and continued on and off through the 1940s. The book provides maps of most of the sites in the region along with voluminous...
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Teotihuacan: Art from the City of the Gods The Great Temple of the Aztecs: Treasures of Tenochtitlan
Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (3): 460–461.
Published: 01 August 1995
... of the research done in the city over the past two decades. It will appeal to a wide audience of art lovers, Mexican aficionados, art historians, and archaeologists. Eleven essays explore the city from the perspective of the archaeologists on site and their vision of what happened, offering fascinating...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (3): 508–509.
Published: 01 August 1994
... It is often stated that archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and ethno-historians of the Maya would all benefit from studying each other’s scholarship as well as that of non-Mayanists. If we accept this premise—and also the reality that such cross-fertilization is seldom reflected in published...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (4): 814–815.
Published: 01 November 1984
... University Press 1984 This book on the historical archaeology of early eighteenth-century Saint Augustine is important, first, because it spells out clearly and in great detail the methods used by historical archaeologists to reconstruct the past. Second, since many such archaeologists scorn all...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (3): 497–498.
Published: 01 August 1981
... to ignore most of it. Richard B. Woodbury, in his general introduction to the prehistory, sets the tone with the statement that American archaeologists “have rarely carried their work south of the international border and . . . Mexican archaeologists have concentrated their work much farther south . . .” (p...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (1): 121–123.
Published: 01 February 1994
... to nonhistorians. The authors of this work, most of whom are archaeologists, attempt to reconnect the borderlands to the rest of colonial Spanish America, and in doing so, boldly set the research agenda for the northern frontier. Editor David Hurst Thomas, who is curator of anthropology at the American Museum...
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