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Inscriptions, Mayan. --- Maya sculpture.

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Maya sculpture. --- Indian sculpture --- Mayas --- Antiquities.

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Mayas --- Antiquities --- Sculpture --- Antiquités --- Quiriguã Site (Guatemala) --- Quiriguã (Guatémala : site archéologique) --- Maya sculpture. --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Quiriguá Site (Guatemala) --- Quiriguá (Guatémala : site archéologique)

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In this book, Alexander Parmington examines how images, texts and architectural form controlled and channelled movement of particular sets of people through various precincts in Classic Maya cities. Using Palenque as a case study, this book analyses specific building groups and corresponding sculptures to provide insight into the hierarchical distribution and use of ritual and administrative space in temple and palace architecture. Identifying which spaces were the most accessible and most public, and which spaces were segregated and highly private, Dr Parmington demonstrates how sculptural, iconographic and hieroglyphic content varies considerably when found in public/common or private/elite space. Drawing on specific examples from the Classic Maya and other early civilisations, he demonstrates that by examining the intent in the distribution of architecture and art, the variation and function of the artistic themes represented in sculpture and other monumental works of art can be better understood.

Spatial analysis (Statistics) in archaeology --- Maya sculpture --- Maya architecture --- Architecture, Maya --- Mayas --- Architecture --- Sculpture, Maya --- Maya art --- Sculpture, Central American --- Sculpture, Mexican --- Archaeology --- Sculpture --- Methodology --- Palenque Site (Mexico) --- Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico) --- Palemke (Chiapas, Mexico) --- Mexico --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Social Sciences --- Archeology

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The ancient Mesoamerican city of Izapa in Chiapas, Mexico, is renowned for its extensive collection of elaborate stone stelae and altars, which were carved during the Late Preclassic period (300 BC-AD 250). Many of these monuments depict kings garbed in the costume and persona of a bird, a well-known avian deity who had great significance for the Maya and other cultures in adjacent regions. This Izapan style of carving and kingly representation appears at numerous sites across the Pacific slope and piedmont of Mexico and Guatemala, making it possible to trace political and economic corridors of communication during the Late Preclassic period. In this book, Julia Guernsey offers a masterful art historical analysis of the Izapan style monuments and their integral role in developing and communicating the institution of divine kingship. She looks specifically at how rulers expressed political authority by erecting monuments that recorded their performance of rituals in which they communicated with the supernatural realm in the persona of the avian deity. She also considers how rulers used the monuments to structure their built environment and create spaces for ritual and politically charged performances. Setting her discussion in a broader context, Guernsey also considers how the Izapan style monuments helped to motivate and structure some of the dramatic, pan-regional developments of the Late Preclassic period, including the forging of a codified language of divine kingship. This pioneering investigation, which links monumental art to the matrices of political, economic, and supernatural exchange, offers an important new understanding of a region, time period, and group of monuments that played a key role in the history of Mesoamerica and continue to intrigue scholars within the field of Mesoamerican studies.

History of civilization --- Chiapas --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Maya architecture --- Maya art --- Maya sculpture --- Mayas --- Petroglyphs --- Carvings, Rock --- Engravings, Rock --- Rock carvings --- Rock engravings --- Rock inscriptions --- Stone inscriptions --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Sculpture, Maya --- Art, Maya --- Mayan art --- Architecture, Maya --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Antiquities --- Sculpture --- Art --- Architecture --- Izapa Site (Mexico) --- Soconusco Region (Mexico) --- Antiquities. --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Inscriptions --- Picture-writing --- Rock paintings --- Sculpture, Central American --- Sculpture, Mexican --- Art, Central American --- Art, Mexican --- Archaeology --- Mexico