...César Lizardi Ramos Chichén Itzá and Its Cenote of Sacrifice. A Comparative Study of Contemporaneous Maya and Toltec . By Tozzer Alfred M. . 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass. , 1957 . Peabody Museum . Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, XI-XII...

... experienced the “drive to feed a growing family” (p. ix). Apparently the children are now raised; Bolles has completed his manuscript. Coming decades after the explorations, the volume nonetheless will be welcomed by Mayanists and placed beside reports of other complexes at Chichén Itzá—the Caracol...

...Michael D. Coe The Great Ball Court at Chichen Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico . By Cohodas Marvin . New York , 1978 . Garland Publishing Company . Map. Illustrations. Charts. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. xix , 302 . Cloth. Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press 1980...

...Andrew Sackett In the Museum of Maya Culture: Touring Chichén Itzá . By CastañEDA Quetzil E. . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1996 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 341 pp. Cloth , $54.95 . Paper , $21.95 . Copyright 1998 by Duke...

... deferred. The several decades of archaeological work at Chichén Itzá, the great Toltec-Maya capital of Yucatán, point up both the strength and weakness of Morley as a scholar. He was a leader of men, recruiting such outstanding figures as Karl Ruppert, J. Eric S. Thompson, Gustav Stromsvik, Harry E. D...

... with the emblems of the Plumed Serpent—by then accepted as the symbol of political power and sacred wisdom. Excavations at Xochicalco, Cacaxtla, early Cholula, and Tula de Hidalgo have uncovered evidence of a common iconography. Much the same was also true of Chichen Itza, the great post-Classic metropolis...

... be summarized quickly. One recurrent and endlessly bruited theme is that the Toltec architecture and period at Chichén Itzá are contemporary with the late Maya Classic florescence of the Puuc cities (Uxmal et al.). This is not a new conclusion, and was suggested by Harry Pollock as far back as 1962. A number...

... famous husband Augustus as they carried out archaeological and photographic explorations of places such as Chichén Itzá and Uxmal. The book sandwiches her diary of adventures in Yucatán (1873–76) between more conventional biographies of her earlier and later years. Alice was the youngest daughter...

... to Yucatan and the tropical rainforests of Guatemala, Mexico, and Honduras. Before the Spanish conquest, this area was the homeland of the gifted Mayas—inventors of glyphic writing and a precise solar calendar. The reader is introduced to the famous archaeological sites of Tikal, Chichén Itzá, Uxmal, Kabah...

... of Balankanche, about 4 km. west of Chichén Itzá in Yucatan, has been explored and excavated by various groups, scientific and otherwise, since 1932. In 1959 a sealed section of the cave was discovered. Within its passageways were the remains of six separate clusters of offerings almost perfectly preserved...

... Postclassic Temporal and Spatial Frames for the Lowland Maya: A Background, Ar len F. C hase and D iane Z. C hase The Postclassic Sequence of Tancah and Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico, A rthur G. M iller Littoral-Marine Economy at Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico, A lfredo B arrera R ubio Chichen Itza...

... which supposedly permits this difficult step, in which (as elsewhere in the text, and in the illustrations) much extraneous material is introduced, remains unconvincing. The same can be said of the specific treatment of four sites, Piedras Negras, Yaxchilan, Uxmal, and Chichén Itzá, which forms...

...) are in agreement. Chapter 3 continues the theme of Tollan, as the archetype for Tenochtitlán, in successive cities (Teotihuacán, Cholula, Xochicalco, Chichen Itzá, and Tula) all in the Toltec tradition of Tollan. Chapter 4 retells the return of Quetzalcoatl as the story of the failure of Aztec polity...

... technical skill and a fine artistic sensibility has made rubbings of various monuments, ranging from early stelae of Kaminaljuyú to reliefs at Uxmal and Chichén Itzá. Although the technique lends itself only to relief carving, her selection reveals wide range in style and concept. Sixty illustrations form...

... . xxi , 147 pp. Paper . $20.95 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Posed in photographs against contrived backdrops of archaeological debris at Uxmal and Chichén Itzá, Augustus Le Plongeon looks very much the nineteenth-century eccentric, dressed in the rough cotton tunic...

... of both the achievement of Christopher Columbus and the centuries-long discussion over the event itself and its consequences. This statement is followed by a tangential narrative of the author’s first visit to Chichen Itza, and a concluding discussion relating to the ill-fated Disney proposal to build...

... cities such as Chichén Itzá, Tikal, and Uxmal to remote locations only accessible by dirt trails or by boat, such as Dzibiltun in Yucatan and Topoxte in Petén. In many instances, Frej paired his recent photographs with Maler's nineteenth- and early twentieth-century images of the same site, often taken...

... in conflict at Tollan, the Nonoalcas and Tolteca-Chichimeca (pp. 160-171); that Chichen Itza in its Toltec phase was relatively autonomous of Tollan, and the creator of much Toltec art (pp. 220-226); that the Toltec “empire” was confined to the central Mexican area, and did not include provinces on the Gulf...

... of warfare at Chichén Itzá and the northern Maya Lowlands with the Popol Vuh genesis myth in an attempt to document the historical transformation of Maya rulership in the Terminal Classic period. Thomas Charlton and Deborah Nichols examine carefully the archaeological and historical evidence...

... Ralph L. Roys, who suggested that Yucatán was divided into provinces during Postclassic times. Quezada proposes that the fall of the centralized governance structure of Terminal Classic Chichén Itzá allowed the “resurgence of lineages, or clans of nobility, as social institutions” (p. 13...