Maya Ruins in Central America in Color: Tikal, Copán, and Quiriguá
by Ferguson, William M. and John Q. Royce
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About This Item
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1984 First edition. Foreword by Linda Schele. Quarto. x, [2], 387pp. Profusely illustrated, mostly in color, including black & white diagrams, photographs, reproductions, text drawings, floor plans. Appendices, bibliography and index. Dark green cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (short tear to bottom edge). Beautifully produced, and quite scholarly, with an abundance of color photographs, this work focus on and describes the various sites area by area, stela by stela. All three sites were the great centers of religious ceremony, of political and commercial activity, and were the residences and power of the kings and nobles. The authors provide extreme detail on the architecture of the sites and describe in detail many of the artifacts and monuments. .
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- Title
- Maya Ruins in Central America in Color: Tikal, Copán, and Quiriguá
- Author
- Ferguson, William M. and John Q. Royce
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The University of New Mexico Press
- Place of Publication
- Albuquerque
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Latin America, Central America, Maya, Mayan Ruins, Tikal, Copan, Quirigua, History
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