Artifacts from the Cenote of Sacrifice, Chichen Itza, Yucatan: Textiles, Basketry, Stone, Bone, Shell, Ceramics, Wood, Copal, Rubber, other Organic ... Mammalian Remains (Peabody Museum Memoirs) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873656946 ISBN 13: 9780873656948

Publisher: Peabody Museum Press, 1992

Synopsis

In this abundantly illustrated third and final volume on the artifacts found by Edward H. Thompson in the Well of Sacrifice, specialists analyze the great variety of objects and debate whether they represent evidence of dateable prehistorical ritual. The collection includes the rare remains of hundreds of textiles, wooden objects, and copal incense offerings that were preserved in the waters of this limestone sinkhole, as well as the lithics, ceramics and bone and shell artifacts commonly found in Maya burials and caches and about 250 mammalian remains. These objects are remarkable for having been cut, torn, broken, and burned before they were thrown into the green waters of the sacred well at Chichen Itza.

About this title

About the Author:

Gordon R. Willey (1913–2002) was Bowditch Professor of Mexican and Central American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.

Review:

“Fascinating reading throughout and a treasure of information, it belongs in all Maya archaelogy collections.”―Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Peabody Museum Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0873656946
• ISBN 13: 9780873656948
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Coggins Clemency Chase