Many of our early publications are out of print. However, some sections of these books may be available as preprints. Please see below for details about individual publications.
Author(s): Frans Blom & Oliver La Farge
Date: 1926
Cost: Out of Print
A narrative of the authors' expedition into Mesoamerica based on their daily journals. It includes a study by Blom of the geography and archaeology of the Maya area, and La Farge's desription of the customs and language of the present-day Maya. Volume 1 takes them from New Orleans to Veracruz and the Mexican Gulf Coast, including the first account of the Olmec site of La Venta, and then through Chiapas and Palenque. Volume 2 starts in Chiapas and takes the authors through the Tzetzal area and into the Chuchuimatanes, Guatemala.
2 volumes; 551 pages; 374 figures.
ISBN 0-939238-02-0
Author(s): Ralph L. Roys
Date: 1931
Cost: Out of Print
A transcript, translation, and study of Maya medical cures recorded in documents written in the Maya language, but in European script, shortly after the Conquest (Libro del Judío).
359 pp; paper.
ISBN 0-939238-03-9
Author(s): Oliver La Farge II & Douglas Byers
Date: 1931
Cost: Out of Print
Detailed study of the daily life and ceremonies of the Jacalteca Indians of the Guatemala highlands.
380 pages; 79 figures., 2 color plates.
ISBN 0-939238-04-7
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1932
Cost: $115.00 *very limited inventory*
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556 pages; figures.
ISBN 0-939238-05-5
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1934
Cost: $40.00
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Paperback; 401 pages; illustrated.
ISBN 0-939238-06-3
Author(s): Lilly de Jongh Osborne
Date: 1935
Cost: Out of Print
In addition to describing the native clothing of men and women, and the customs and symbols associated with them, this volume also discusses the techniques involved in the weaving and dyeing of the textiles.
110 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-07-1
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1936
Cost: $25.00
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Harold Cummins, Mary Steele Lane, Stella M. Leche, Ruth Millar, Inez D. Steggerda, and Morris Steggerda.
Ten specialized studies in physical anthropology in Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. All of the studies concern dermatoglyphics.
331 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-08-X
Author(s): Doris Z. Stone
Date: 1938
Cost: Out of Print
A study of vase types from the Uloa Valley, Honduras.
70 pages; illustrations.
ISBN 0-939238-09-8
Author(s): Jens Yde
Date: 1938
Cost: Out of Print
The regions involved in this survey include Tegucigalpa, Comayagua, Yojoa, Copán and the upper ChamelecÛn, and the lower ChamelecÛn and Ula Rivers. There is a discussion of the pottery from Jaral and Siguatepeque and an index of archaeological sites in Honduras.
101 pages; illustrations.
ISBN 0-939238-10-1
Author(s): Arthur E. Gropp
Date: 1941
Cost: Out of Print - See reprints available below
Lists information about the libraries and archives and provides information on private libraries, bookbinding, book selling, and printing in these countries and colonies.
721 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-11-X
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1948
Cost: $20.00 *limited inventory*
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314 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-12-8
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1977
Cost: $35.00
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286 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-13-6
Author(s): Arthur Randolph Kelly
Date: 1947
Cost: $10.00
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Using morphological measurements taken from 336 prisoners in Texas, this study attempts to "determine their racial affiliations with parent Indian and Spanish stocks." Given the high degree of Spanish admixture into Indian stock, this study also looks at morphological trends that result from such mixture.
118 pages; 12 figures; 104 tables.
ISBN 0-939238-15-2
Author(s): Robert Wauchope
Date: 1948
Cost: $20.00
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The report for the Carnegie Institution of Washington on Wauchope's excavations during two months of 1935-36 in the Department of Quiche. Included in this volume are the reports on the pottery, in collaboration with Edith B. Ricketson, and on the artifacts, by A.V. Kidder.
192 pages; 79 figures; 25 plates.
ISBN 0-939238-16-0
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1951
Cost: $30.00 *very limited inventory*
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>280 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-17-9
Author(s): John Gillin
Date: 1951
Cost: $15.00
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A study of the social and political culture of the Guatemalan community. John Gillin takes the cultural interplay between the community's two caste, the Ladinos and Indians, and their environment to discuss the sources of psychological security or, in some cases, stress.
128 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-18-7
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1957
Cost: $50.00 *very limited inventory*
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240 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-19-5
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1961
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>175 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-20-9
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1960
Cost: Out of Print - See preprints available below
204 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-21-7
Author(s): Robert E. Smith
Date: 1955
Cost: Out of Print
This two-volume work presents the first comprehensive description and analysis of the archaeological ceramics recovered at a Maya site. The Uaxactun pottery was excavated by a Carnegie Institute of Washington expedition between 1926 and 1937.
Volume I contains chapters on the stratigraphic context of the excavated lots; the important diagnostics of the Mamom, Chicanel, Matzanel, Tzakol, and Tepeu phases; ceramic wares; decoration; types of design; mortuary, cache, and specialized vessels; the dating of ceramics by stelae; and analyses of the pottery by phase. Volume II contains 86 full-page illustrations, mostly drawings of the ceramics.
2 volumes; 388 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-22-5
Author(s): K. H. Silvert
Date: 1954
Cost: Out of Print
Part I explains National and Local Government between the Revolution of 1944 and 1953. Part II is the English translation of all State Constitutions between 1823 and 1945.
2 volumes; 240 pages (100 and 140 pages).
ISBN 0-939238-23-3
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1976
Cost: $28.00
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107 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-24-1
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1972
Cost: $15.00
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110 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-25-X
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1972
Cost: $30.00
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275 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-26-8
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1968
Cost: $25.00
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201 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-27-6
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1970
Cost: Out of Print - See preprints available below
194 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-28-4
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1961
Cost: Out of Print - See preprints available below
298 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-29-2
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1967
Cost: $40.00
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185 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-30-6
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1968
Cost: $10.00
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180 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-32-2
Author(s): Munro S. Edmonson
Date: 1965
Cost: $25.00
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Edmonson used about 40 sources for this dictionary of about 16,800 listings, ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Most entries were checked with Quiche and Kaqchikel speakers. The listings of roots include estimates of "the minimal extension of the use of the root in space and time."
168 pages. (Reprint Edition, 1976)
ISBN 0-939238-33-0
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1975
Cost: Out of Print - See preprints available below
247 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-35-7
Author(s): E. Wyllys Andrews IV
Date: 1970
Cost: Out of Print
Archaeological discoveries in a Yucatan cave, with transcription and translation of modern Maya ritual celebrated therein. Small 33 rpm record included.
196 pages; 60 figures; 2 color plates; 33 rpm record.
ISBN 0-939238-36-5
Author(s): Ian Graham
Date: 1967
Cost: $30.00
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Graham's exploration in El Peten in 1960, 1961, and 1962 provide the first detailed information about Aguateca, Kinal, Mirador, Nakbe, and Machaquila, and reported two stelae at Seibal. The report includes site descriptions, site maps, and photographs and drawings of many new hieroglyphic monuments. Graham noted the distinctive assemblages of mounds and the absence of inscribed monuments at Mirador and Nakbe, in the Mirador Basin, suggesting that the builders were not Classic Maya.
107 pages; 81 figures.
ISBN 0-939238-37-3
Author(s): E. Wyllys Andrews IV
Date: 1969
Cost: $30.00
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A report of 15,000 specimens arranged by family and genus from 18 Maya sites. Includes a discussion of specific archaeological contexts and interpretations of the use of Mollusca. The report presents fresh data from the Middle American Research Institute excavations at Dzibilchaltun.
115 pages; 6 figures; 21 plates.
ISBN 0-939238-38-1
Author(s): Munro S. Edmonson
Date: 1971
Cost: Out of Print
The Quiche text with a new English translation, plus introduction.
273 pages (Reprint Edition, 1977)
ISBN 0-939238-40-3
Author(s): James C. Tatum
Date: 1972
Cost: $20.00
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Antonio López Matoso was a prominent member of Mexican society during the early nineteenth century. Convicted as a revolutionary, he was exiled to Havana in 1816 and did not return to Mexico City until 1820. His diary is the account of his journey from Mexico and of his exile in Havana.
114 pages; 21 figures.
ISBN 0-939238-41-1
Author(s): Arden R. King
Date: 1974
Cost: $30.00
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Arden King studies the culture of Coban, the capital of the Department of Alta Verapaz, where the indigenous community was able to retain its traditional ways despite being heavily influenced by the Ladino minority and other Europeans, principally the Germans. Emphasizing the history of the region, the study focuses on the persistence of traditional ways despite changes in cultural patterns introduced by Ladino-German groups.
283 pages; 6 figures; 215 tables; 54 tabulations.
ISBN 0-939238-42-X
Author(s): Edward B. Kurjack
Date: 1974
Cost: $17.00
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Using settlement pattern and architectural distribution data from Dzibilchaltun recovered during the 1957-1965 Tulane project, Kurjack attempts to show that Classic Maya society in the Northern Lowlands was more complex than previously thought. The map of Dziilchaltun is published separately (Publication 47).
105 pages; 28 figures; 15 tables.
ISBN 0-939238-43-8
Author(s): Robert Wauchope
Date: 1975
Cost: $35.00
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In 1947, Wauchope returned to Zacualpa to investigate issues that arose druing his 1935-36 excavations (see Publication 14). The bulk of this report is devoted to the ceramics, which span the Protoclassic through the Protohistoric.
xix+303 pages; 213 figures; 53 tables; 35 tabulations, 2 charts.
ISBN 0-939238-44-6
Author(s): E. Wyllys Andrews IV & Anthony P. Andrews
Date: 1975
Cost: $25.00
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Originally worked on by Loring M. Hewen and E. Wyllys Andrews IV and then later by Anthony P. Andrews, the site of Xcaret is found on the central coast of Quintana Roo. The first part of this volume is a description of the artifact and architectural remains. The second part consists of brief descriptions of other sites found along the central coast. Includes a site index and bibliography for the East Coast of Quintana Roo.
xii+117 pages; 125 figures.
ISBN 0-939238-45-4
Author(s): David L. Webster
Date: 1976
Cost: $20.00
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The excavations of the fortifications at Becan are used to discuss the nature of Maya warfare in the Early Classic and how warfare served as a mechanism for cultural development.
x+134 pages; 111 figures; 2 charts.
ISBN 0-939238-46-2
Author(s): E. Wyllys Andrews IV
Date: 1976
Cost: $25.00
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A report of the excavations conducted at this site between 1967 and 1969. Includes descriptions of the architecture, ceramics, lithic finds, and sculpture. Dating primarily to the Classic Period, Quelepa was an important town on the southeastern periphery of Mesoamerica.
xiv+199 pages; 184 figures; 1 table.
ISBN 0-939238-47-0
Author(s): Joseph W. Ball
Date: 1977
Cost: $25.00
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This ceramic sequence for the Rio Bec subregion helps provide a chronological framework for understanding the cultural relationships among the Rio Bec, Chenes, and Puuc subregions, as well as Maya areas to the north and south.
xiv+190 pages; 49 figures; 1 chart.
ISBN 0-939238-48-9
Author(s): David F. Potter
Date: 1977
Cost: $25.00
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A study of the architectural style of Central Yucatan, with an emphasis on the site of Becan, in the Rio Bec subregion. The study illustrates the style of architecture that is unique to this part of the Maya area.
xi+118 pages; 79 figures; 2 tables.
ISBN 0-939238-49-7
Author(s): Prentice M. Thomas, Jr.
Date: 1981
Cost: $25.00
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The site of Becan in the Rio Bec subregion was occupied for about 1600 years. This volume studies the shifts and trends of settlement at the site.
xiv+116 pages; 57 figures; 11 tables; separate portfolio with 23 maps.
ISBN 0-939238-50-0
Author(s): Jack D. Eaton and Joseph W. Ball
Date: 1978
Cost: $25.00
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This report on an archaeological survey along the western and northern coast of Campeche and Yucatan includes a description of the sites, which range from Formative to Decadent-period settlements, and a discussion of the artifacts. Includes Joseph W. Ball's report on the ceramics.
Includes: Archaeological Survey of the Yucatan-Campeche Coast. Jack D. Eaton. x+67 pages; 34 figures; 3 tables.
Archaeological Pottery of the Yucatan-Campeche Coast. Joseph W. Ball. 78 pages; 19 figures; 1 table.
x+146 pages; 53 figures; 4 tables.
ISBN 0-939238-51-9
Author(s): George E. Stuart et al.
Date: 1979
Cost: $20.00
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Boxed set includes a 17-page introduction by Edward B. Kurjack, 22 maps at 1:2000 covering 19 km2, and 12 maps at 1:1000 covering the central 6 km2 of the site.
22 maps.
ISBN 0-939238-52-7
Author(s): E. Wyllys Andrews IV et al.
Date: 1980
Cost: $35.00
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Dzibilchaltun was a large Maya city near the north coast of Yucatan. Although the main occupation was in the Classic period, the zone was inhabited from about 600BC to after the Spanish Conquest. This volume presents the excavations carried out by Tulane University between 1957 and 1965.
xxi+339 pages; 258 figures; 13 tables.
ISBN 0-939238-53-5
Author(s): Clemency Coggins
Date: 1983
Cost: $20.00
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Structure I-sub, also known as the Temple of the Seven Dolls, dates to about A.D. 700 and is probably one of the earliest vaulted temples built at Dzibilchaltun. This report is a study of the stucco decoration preserved on and fallen from the upper facade of this and other vaulted buildings in the Seven Dolls group. The first half of the report describes the stucco and its iconography. A comparative discussion follows, presenting the local, regional, and wider Mesoamerican context of Structure I-sub. Coggins argues that Dzibilchaltun was a carefully planned cosmic assemblage, comparing it to the contemporaneous twin- pyramid groups at Tikal.
vii+70 pages; 45 figures.
ISBN 0-939238-78-0; LC 83-61021
Author(s): Jennifer T. Taschek
Date: 1994
Cost: $50.00
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The 1957-1965 Tulane University excavations at Dzibilchaltun recovered thousands of artifacts of many materials. Most of these objects date to the Late Classic period (Early period II and the Pure Florescent, ca. A.D. 700-1000), when the community of more than 25,000 persons covered 16 km2, but the collection spans the years from 600 B.C. until the arrival of the Spanish. It is the only large excavated collection of artifacts from a northern Maya site to cover this large a part of the prehispanic past.
xiv+304 pages; 61 full pages of artifact illusstrations; map; index.
ISBN 0-939238-80-2, LC 94-4502
Author(s): Dana Gardner Munro
Date: 1983
Cost: $15.00
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Dana Gardner Munro spent his career as a student of Central America. Here, he recounts his experiences of traveling in Central America in the early twentieth century, when he was funded by the Carnegie Peace Foundation for his doctoral dissertation on political troubles in Central America.
xi+75 pages; 9 figures; index.
ISBN 0-939238-77-2, LC 83-60479
Author(s): Arthur A. Demarest
Date: 1986
Cost: $40.00
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Santa Leticia, a small Late Preclassic site in far western El Salvador, has three monumental sculptures carved in the "potbelly" style. Demarest's excavations in 1977 were intended to provide archaeological context for these important sculptures by developing a ceramic sequence and an understanding of the occupation of the site. The report addresses a range of other problems in the archaeology of the southeastern highlands, including the nature of the Maya frontier, the origins and spread of Usulutan pottery and of complex societies in the Maya highlands, and the presence of the "Olmec" style.
xiii+272 pages; 141 figures; 12 tables; index.
ISBN 0-939238-81-0, LC 84-62189
Author(s): John S. Justeson et al.
Date: 1985
Cost: $50.00
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The nature of the social interaction between Lowland Maya and foreign groups are made based on the evidence for foreign impact on Lowland Mayan language. In this study, the four linguistic groups that are recognized to have influenced Lowland Mayan language and script are Zapotecan, Mixe-Zoquean, Nahua and Totonacan. Each is discussed in terms of its degree of impact on the Mayan language, the period of its influence, and the nature of the social interaction.
vii+97 pages; 9 figures; 17 tables; index.
ISBN 0-939238-82-9, LC 84-61625
Author(s): Harold E. Vokes and Emily H. Vokes
Date: 1983
Cost: $30.00
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A list of species of shallow-water mollusks recovered along the coasts of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Includes 50 plates of shell photos and lists of the shells found in each of the seven ecological zones. The 769 species reported from 99 localities include many micromollusca.
viii+183 pages; 9 figures; 50 black-and-white plates; index.
ISBN 0-939238-83-7, LC 83-62103
Author(s): Robert Wauchope & Margaret N. Bond
Date: 1989
Cost: $30.00
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Wauchope's excavations in the southeastern area of Guatemala were undertaken to enhance the understanding of the relationship between sites in El Salvador and the Maya to the north. This volume presents the results of his findings at three sites in the Department of Jutiapa. Margaret N. Bond wrote the ceramic report and the description of the other artifacts that accompanies this volume.
xiii+125 pages; 62 figures; 15 tables; index.
ISBN 0-939238-85-3, LC 89-13171
Author(s): Victoria R. Bricker
Date: 1986
Cost: $30.00
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Victoria Bricker's study describes the grammatical structure of the hieroglyphs in the Classic inscriptions and in the Postclassic codices. It focuses on the glyphs that have, primarily, a grammatical function, describing where they are found and how they are used in the texts. The volume contains chapters on the nature of the Mayan script, pronomial inflection, U-allographs and Y-allographs of the third person pronoun, other possible pronominal glyphs, nominal inflection, verbal inflection, and syntactic considerations. It includes a transcription and translation of the back of Stela 3 from Piedras Negras.
xii+214 pages; 218 figures; 28 tables; index.
ISBN 0-939238-86-1, LC 85-60766
Author(s): E. Wyllys Andrews V (editor)
Date: 1986
Cost: $35.00
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viii+217 pages; 49 figures; 3 tables; index.
ISBN 0-939238-87-X, LC 85-62925
Author(s): Victoria R. Bricker
Date: 1990
Cost: Out of Print
This is the second MARI concordance of a Book of Chilam Balam. The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel is also a late eighteenth-century document that contains information about the language and culture of the colonial Yucatec Maya. The text, written in Yucatec, has been broken down by morphemes for the concordance.
viii+638 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-90-X, LC 89-9359
Author(s): Victoria R. Bricker
Date: 1990
Cost: Out of Print
The Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin is a late eighteenth-century document written in Yucatec Maya. With the text segmented into morphemes, a concordance was compiled to provide a reference tool for linguistic and epigraphic research. Contains the whole text in addition to the concordance.
viii+483 pages.
ISBN 0-939238-89-6, LC 89-9360
Author(s): Jeremy A. Sabloff & Gair Tourtellot
Date: 1991
Cost: $50.00
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This volume, representing the first phase of the 1983-1987 Sayil Project, presents the first extensive and detailed map of human settlements at a large Maya site in the Puuc region of Yucatan. Includes an appendix by Nicholas P. Dunning on soils and settlement in the Sayil valley.
xiv+38 pages; 6 figures; 3 tables; 3 appendices; index; 16 maps; 1 5" diskette (feature database).
ISBN 0-939238-88-8, LC 90-44402
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Smith & Ross Parmenter
Date: 1991
Cost: $160.00
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The Codex Tulane is a never-before-published Mixtec pictorial manuscript housed in the Latin American Library at Tulane University. Painted in the mid-sixteenth century in vibrant colors on a long rolled strip of glued animal hides, it presents king lists from two towns in the Mixtec-speaking region of southern Puebla. This first publication in color of the entire obverse of the codex, the most handsome in the United States, presents the codex on fourteen overlapping facsimile plates printed by the Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt of Graz, Austria. The commentary includes an introduction, summary, and chapters on the signs and pictorial conventions, pictorial contents, and glosses by Mary Elizabeth Smith. Ross Parmenter's chapter on the acquisition of the codex traces its twentieth-century history up to its acquisition by the Middle American Research Institute in 1932.
x+142 pages; 50 figures; 13 tables, appendices, notes, index, 16 maps, 1 5" diskette (feature database).
ISBN 0-939238-91-8, LC 90-27616
Author(s): William M. Ringle & Thomas C. Smith-Stark
Date: 1997
Cost: $35.00
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A complete analytical guide to the inscriptions of this important Classic site, this volume also includes a modernization of Thompson's hieroglyphic classification in light of recent epigraphic research.
ix+361 pages; 3 tables; hieroglyphic illustrations.
ISBN 0-939238-93-4, LC 92-12571
Author(s): E. Wyllys Andrews V & Elizabeth O. Mozzillo (editors)
Date: 1994
Cost: $45.00
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The 1991 Congress at Tulane University. Summary reports by organizers on about 110 symposia with 1,200 scholars. Anthropology, archaeology, culture, history, linguistics, and other fields.
293 pages; 3 tables; hieroglyphic illustrations.
ISBN 0-939238-92-6, LC 93-32277
Author(s): Victoria R. Bricker & Gabrielle Vail (editors)
Date: 1997
Cost: $42.00
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A commentary on the calendrical structure, iconography, and epigraphy of a continuous sequence of almanacs in the longest of the four remaining Maya codices.
x+196 pages; 144 figures; 20 tables; hieroglyphic illustrations.
ISBN 0-939238-94-2
Author(s): Irwin Rovner et al.
Date: 1997
Cost: Out of Print
A revision of Rovner's 1975 dissertation on the lithic artifacts of Dzibilchaltún and several Río Bec sites derived from Tulane University excavations from 1957 to 1971. One of the first attempts to elaborate a comprehensive developmental sequence of Maya stone tool types.
xii+188 pages; 37 figures; 57 tables; mostly full-page illustrations of artifacts; appendices with obsidian source data.
ISBN 0-939238-95-0
Author(s): Munro S. Edmonson
Date: 1997
Cost: $30.00
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This volume is arranged in three sections. The first is the translation of the Quiché drama, "Zaqi Q'oxol and Cortés: The Conquest of Mexico." Even though this play re-enacts the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the setting is in Guatemala and the Aztecs speak Quiché. The second section is a translation of the drama, "The Bull Dance." Probably originally based on a Spanish play, it has over the years accumulated traits characteristic of Quiché drama to the point that one can now accept this as a Maya drama. The third section is a translation of a Quiché document entitled, "Calendar of the Indians of Guatemala. 1722. Kiché." It consists of a description of the 52-year calendar round and two 260-day almanacs.
vii+171 pages; 2 figures; 4 tables; index.
ISBN 0-939238-96-9
Author(s): Philip C. Thompson
Date: 1999
Cost: $100.00
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A case study of a colonial Yucatec Maya town, based primarily on cabildo records (Yucatec Maya) and marriage, baptism, and death records (Spanish) of the Catholic church. It reconstructs kinship terminology, distribution of wealth, inheritance patterns, landholding types, relative sizes, sequence, pace, and significance of land alienation, social strata, town endogamy-exogamy, post-marital residence, patrilineage exogamy, compadrazgo, origin and structure of local government (cabildo), sequence of officeholders, underlying patterns of office-holding, and sequence of town headmen (batabob).
xiii+460 pages; 30 figures; 72 tables; 4 maps; 37 appendices; notes; index.
ISBN 0-939238-97-7
Author(s): Victoria R. Bricker and Helga-Maria Miram (editors and translators)
Date: 2002
Cost: $75.00
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The books of Chilam Balam are early Colonial texts from Yucatan, written in the Mayan language with Spanish characters. They are compendia of knowledge, including accounts of Maya history and mythical history. The volume includes the Maya text, an English translation, and a vast commentary, a basic thesis of which is that the Kaua is an amalgam of New and Old World knowledge, joined by varying historical and scientific circumstances and by existing cultural patterns of thought. 2002.
xviii+548 pages; 77 figures; 32 tables; 3 appendices; index.
ISBN 0-939238-98-5
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 2005
Cost: $75.00
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The volume, an homage to Mary Elizabeth Smith, contains twenty-five essays that focus on the art and intellectual culture of ancient Mesoamerica as that culture is revealed primarily in painted books or "codices" of the native tradition. The authors explore aspects of indigenous knowledge, such as religion and ritual, calendrical systems, rulership, and spatial and historical reckoning. Cultures treated include the Toltecs, as well as the Aztecs, Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Maya in the Pre-Columbian and colonial periods.
ISBN 939238-99-3
Author(s): William F. Doonan
Date: 2010
Cost: $35.00
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One in a series of research reports from the Copan Acropolis Archaeological Project (PAAC), Tulane University Excavations discussing the results of analyses conducted on chipped stone, groundstone, fired clay objects, and obsidian prismatic blades recovered by the Tulane University excavations of Group 10L-2 from 1990 to 1994.
ISBN 0-9842028-0-3
Author(s): Robert Hill II
Date: 2015
Cost: $500.00
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This collection includes 34 giclée copies of Frederick S. Crocker's original watercolor paintings of the traditional clothing worn in 31 highland Maya communities. The collection also includes a catalog containing Crocker's introduction to the collection and his notes on each community's distinct clothing. More Information
ISBN 0-9842028-1-2
Author(s): Ronald K. Faulseit, Nezahualcoyotl Xiuhtecutli, and Haley Holt Mehta (editors)
Date: 2018
Cost: $57.50
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This timely volume explores the everyday lives of ancient Mesoamerican people from the Formative through the Postclassic. In honor of Dan Healan, who devoted his life’s work to this theme, several notable scholars present novel research to reconstruct how households produced and exchanged goods; how they carried out private and public rituals; how they built their residences and neighborhoods; organized their towns and cities; earned a living; observed the stars; and even fomented resistance within the powerful Maya, Aztec, Tarascan, Toltec, and Zapotec states.
XV+259 pages; 121 figures; 26 tables; index.
ISBN 978-0-9842028-2-9
Author(s): Ivan Šprajc (editor)
Date: 2021
Cost: ✕$38.00 ✔︎28.50 (until Dec 31st, 2021)
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This edited volume summarizes recent research and archaeological investigations at the Maya sites of Chactun, Tamchen, and Lagunita, Campeche, Mexico, located in an area previously little-known to researchers. Situated between the Chenes architectural region to the north, and the Río Bec region to the south, this intermediate zone shares many features of the surrounding areas, but there is also evidence that suggests affinities with more distant regions. Data from aerial photographs and lidar mapping reveal a densely occupied and highly modified landscape. The volume includes site descriptions, a discussion of the zoomorphic façade at Lagunita, an analysis of the sites’ ceramics, documentation of stelae and altars, and examination of a possible ceremonial offering. The book features extensive photos and illustrations, including 28 beautiful color plates.
XVIII+146 pages; 5 maps; 169 figures; 1 table; appendices; index.
ISBN 978-0-9718878-0-0
Author(s): Victoria Reifler Bricker
Date: 1977
Cost: $4.00
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28 pp., 2 figs., 9 tables.
ISBN 0-939238-54-3
Author(s): James B. Stoltman
Date: 1978
Cost: $6.00 *bound and sold with #3*
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30 pp., 5 figs., 5 tables.
Author(s): Joseph W. Ball & E. Wyllys Andrews V
Date: 1978
Cost: *bound and sold with #2*
17 pp., 11 figs.
ISBN 0-939238-55-1
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1982
Cost: $14.00
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Contributions by John Paddock, Donald L. Brockington, Donald Robertson, Robert Chadwick, James R. Ramsey, Jacinto Quirarte, & Doris Stone.
76 pp., 44 figs., 2 tables.
ISBN 0-939238-75-6, LC 82-82023
Author(s): Multiple Authors
Date: 1982
Cost: 14.00
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Authors: Leonard B. Thien, Anne S. Bradburn, and Arthur L. Welden, with an Annotated Checklist of Plants by Anne S. Bradburn & Steven P. Darwin
76 pp., 44 figs., 2 tables.
ISBN 0-939238-75-6, LC 82-82023
Author(s): Robert Wauchope
Date: 1943
Cost: Out of Print
23 pp.
ISBN 0-939238-56-X
Author(s): Robert Wauchope
Date: 1946
Cost: Out of Print
23 pp.
ISBN 0-939238-57-8
Author(s): Robert Wauchope
Date: 1945
Cost: Out of Print
40 pp.
ISBN 0-939238-58-6
Author(s): Robert Wauchope
Date: 1947
Cost: Out of Print
76 pp., 44 figs., 2 tables.
ISBN 0-939238-75-6, LC 82-82023
Author(s): Marie Hunter Irvine
Date: 1948
Cost: Out of Print
28 pp.
ISBN 0-939238-60-8
Author(s): Robert Wauchope
Date: 1949
Cost: Out of Print
31 pp.
ISBN 0-939238-61-6
Author(s): Robert Wauchope
Date: 1951
Cost: Out of Print
5 pp.
ISBN 0-939238-62-4
Author(s): Robert Wauchope & Arden R. King
Date: 1953
Cost: Out of Print
16 pp.
ISBN 0-939238-63-2
Author(s): Robert Wauchope
Date: 1953
Cost: Out of Print
47 pp.
ISBN 0-939238-64-0
Author(s): Robert Wauchope
Date: 1957
Cost: $10.00 *very limited inventory*
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54 pp.
ISBN 0-939238-65-9
Author(s): E. Wyllys Andrews IV
Date: 1961
Cost: Out of Print
44 pp.
ISBN 0-939238-66-7
Author(s): Robert Wauchope
Date: 1968
Cost: Out of Print
73 pp.
ISBN 0-939238-67-5
Author(s): Marjorie S. Zengel
Date: 1977
Cost: Out of Print
31 pp.
ISBN 0-939238-68-3
Author(s): Alejandro de Ávila Blomberg
Date: 1980
Cost: $5.00 *limited inventory*
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41 pp., 31 figs.
ISBN 0-939238-69-1
Author(s): Marjorie S. Zengel
Date: 1984
Cost: $2.00 *very limited inventory*
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34 pp., 7 figs.
ISBN 0-939238-84-5, LC 84-60293
Author(s):
Date: 1937
Cost: Out of Print
Author(s):
Date: 1939
Cost: Out of Print
240 pp. Mimeographed.
Author(s):
Date: 1939
Cost: Out of Print
146 pp. Mimeographed
Author(s):
Date: 1941
Cost: Out of Print