...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...

...Barbara Edmonson Itzá Maya Texts: With a Grammatical Overview . By Hofling Charles Andrew . Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press , 1991 . Bibliography . xii , 321 pp. cloth . $35.00 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 This is an important work...

...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...

...David Brown The Ancient Future of the Itza: The Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin . Translated and annotated by Edmonson Munro S. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1982 . Illustrations. Map. Appendix. Bibliography. Notes. Index . Pp. xx , 220 . Cloth. $37.50 . Copyright...

...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...

...Christine Hernández Calculating Brilliance: An Intellectual History of Mayan Astronomy at Chich'en Itza . By Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2021 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 446 pp. Cloth, $75.00...

... 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...

...Susan E. Ramírez Sacerdotes y comerciantes: el poder de los Mayas e Itzaes de Yucatán en los siglos VII a XVI . By Rivero Piedad Peniche . Mexico City : Fondo de Cultura Económica , 1993 [1990] . Photographs. Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 248 pp. Paper...

...James Alexander Robertson The People of the Serpent . By Thompson Edward Herbert . ( Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1932 . Pp. xv , 301 . Illus. $3.50 ). The Lost Empire of the Itzaes and Mayas . By Willard Theodore A. . ( Glendale, California : The Arthur H...

...Norman B. Schwartz Caminos en la selva: Migración, comercio y resistencia. Mayas yucatecos e itzaes, siglos XVIII–XIX . By Barrera Laura Caso . Mexico City : El Colegio de México; Fondo de Cultura Económico , 2002 . Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . 423 pp. Paper...

... Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 To the Editor: Mérida, July 8, 1996 I am writing to express my extreme dissatisfaction with the review by Susan E. Ramírez of my book Sacerdotes y comerciantes: el poder de los mayas e itzaes de Yucatán en los siglos VII a XVI (HAHR 76:2...

... maps or schema represented not strict spatial layouts but metaphorical relationships among political locales. Chapter 4 discusses the relationship between land and history. The source is the Hunac Ceel epic in the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, which covers ninth- and thirteenth-century Itza...

... 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...

... obtained authority from the President of the Audiencia of Guatemala to establish a town in the province of Manché to serve as a base for protection of peaceful Indians against attacks by the unpacified Itzáes, Yoles, and Lacandones. He organized and set in motion an expedition in the first part of 1631...

... 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...

... 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...

... steed Morzillo, which, after surviving the conquest of Tenochtitlán, suffered an injury during Cortés’ difficult journey to Honduras and was left by the conqueror to the care of the Petén Itza Maya. Never having seen such a splendid animal, they treated it as a god, and upon the horse’s ensuing death...

... 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...