MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2005019239
003 DLC
005 20110122081511.0
008 050707s2005 couab b s001 0 eng
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050 00 $aF1435.3.R3$bS76 2005
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245 00 $aStone houses and earth lords :$bMaya religion in the cave context /$cedited by Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady.
260 $aBoulder, Colo. :$bUniversity Press of Colorado,$cc2005.
300 $axv, 392 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aMesoamerican worlds
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Religion and role of caves in lowland Maya archaeology / Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady -- Replicating the sacred landscape: the Chen at Muklebal Tzul / Keith M. Prufer and Andrew Kindon -- Caves and artificial caves in late postclassic Maya ceremonial groups / Timothy W. Pugh -- Social power and sacred space at Actun Nak Beh, Belize / Christina T. Halperin -- Pilgrimage and caves on Cozumel / Shankari Patel -- The impact of ritual on ancient Maya economy / James E. Brady -- Scribes and caves in the Maya lowlands / Andrea Stone -- Nikte mo' scattered fire in the Cave of K'ab Chante': epigraphic and archaeological evidence for cave desecration in ancient Maya warfare / James E. Brady and Pierre R. Colas -- Plants and caves in ancient Maya society / Christopher T. Morehart -- The sweatbath in the cave: a modified passage in Chechem Ha Cave, Belize / Holley Moyes -- An analysis of ancient Maya stalactite breakage at Balam Na Cave, Guatemala / James E. Brady ... [et al.] -- De-fanging the earth monster: speleothem transport to surface sites in the Sibun Valley / Polly A. Peterson, Patricia A. McAnany, and Allan B. Cobb -- Showing the way: the function of three small caves in the Sibun-Manatee Karst / Amalia Kenward -- Human remains in lowland Maya caves: problems of interpretation / Ann M. Scott and James E. Brady -- Mortuary practices of the prehistoric Maya from Caves Branch Rock Shelter, Belize / David M. Glassman and Juan Luis Bonor Villarejo -- Nearer to the gods: rockshelter burials from the Ek Xux Valley, Belize / Julie Mather Saul, Keith M. Prufer, and Frank P. Saul -- A question of sacrifice: classic Maya cave mortuary practices at Barton Creek Cave, Belize / Vanessa A. Owen -- What can the bones really tell us?: the study of human skeletal remains from Cenotes / Vera Tiesler -- Maya cave archaeology: a new look at religion and cosmology / James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer.
650 0 $aMayas$xReligion.
650 0 $aMaya cosmology.
650 0 $aMayas$xAnthropometry.
650 0 $aCaves$zMexico$xReligious aspects.
650 0 $aCaves$zBelize$xReligious aspects.
650 0 $aSacred space$zMexico.
650 0 $aSacred space$zBelize.
650 0 $aHuman remains (Archaeology)$zMexico.
650 0 $aHuman remains (Archaeology)$zBelize.
651 0 $aMexico$xAntiquities.
651 0 $aBelize$xAntiquities.
700 1 $aPrufer, Keith M.$q(Keith Malcolm),$d1960-
700 1 $aBrady, James Edward,$d1948-
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005019239.html