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Index
Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America
PREFACE
CONTENTS
MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
PLATES
TEXT FIGURES
INTRODUCTION
Geography and Natural Environment.
Plate I.
History of European Contact.
Plate II.
Plate III.
Languages.
Ethnology.
Plate IV.
Plate V.
Physical Types.
Chapter I THE ARCHAIC HORIZON
Stratification of Remains.
The Cemetery under the Lava.
Plate VI.
Invention of Agriculture.
Archaic Figurines.
Plate VII.
Ancient Customs.
Archaic Pottery.
Plate VIII. Two Stages in the Stone Sculptures of Costa Rica. Note that in the first series (a) the human body is adapted to the surface of a boulder with the arms, legs, and face in low relief and with eyes, nose, and mouth all protruding, while in the second series (b) the limbs are rounded and partly freed from the body. Both are of archaic type but probably not of great age.
Stone Sculptures of the Archaic Period.
Plate IX.
Extensions of the Archaic Horizon.
Plate X. Widely Distributed Female Figurines:
Summary.
Plate XI.
Plate XII.
Plate XIII.
Chapter II THE MAYAN CIVILIZATION
Plate XIV. Photographs by Peabody Museum Expedition.
Plate XV.
Fig. 20. Groundplans of Yaxchilan Temples:
Architecture.
Plate XVI.
Plate XVII.
Massive Sculptural Art.
Plate XVIII.
Minor Arts.
The Serpent in Mayan Art.
The Human Figure.
Design, Composition, and Perspective.
Plate XIX.
The Mayan Pantheon.
Plate XX.
How Mayan History has been Recovered.
Sequences in Art.
Plate XXI. Development in Style of Carving at Copan.
Books of Chilam Balam.
The Mayan Time Counts.
Elements of the Day Count.
PERMUTATION TABLE
The Conventional Year.
Plate XXII.
The Calendar Round.
Mayan Numbers.
Plate XXIII.
The Long Count.
Dates of Dedication.
Hieroglyphs.
Codices.
Plate XXIV.
Plate XXV.
Correlation with Christian Chronology.
The Mayan Eras.
Astronomical Checks on the Correlation.
Astronomical Observatories.
The True Year.
The Lunar Calendar.
Venus Calendar.
Summary of Mayan History.
Protohistoric Period
Early Period
Middle Period
Great Period
Transition Period
Period of the League of Mayapan
Period of Mexican Influence
Modern Period
Plate XXVI.
Chapter III THE MIDDLE CIVILIZATIONS
The Olmeca or Rubber People.
Plate XXVII.
Zapotecan Culture.
Plate XXVIII. Zapotecan Art:
Plate XXIX.
Mitla.
Totonacan Culture.
Plate XXX.
Plate XXXI.
The Toltecs.
Quetzalcoatl and the Toltec Era.
Plate XXXII.
San Juan Teotihuacan.
Plate XXXIII. Two Views of the Principal Pyramid in the Citadel at Teotihuacan.
Xochicalco.
Tula.
Cholula.
Plate XXXIV.
The Frontier Cities of the Northwest.
Plate XXXV.
Santa Lucia Cozumalhualpa.
The Chorotegan Culture.
Plate XXXVI.
Isthmian Gold Work.
Plate XXXVII.
Plate XXXVIII.
Chapter IV THE AZTECS
Mayas and Aztecs compared to Greeks and Romans.
Plate XXXIX.
The Chichimecas.
Aztecan History.
Plate XL.
Social Organization.
Plate XLI.
The Tecpan or Temple Enclosure.
Plate XLII.
Plate XLIII.
The Calendar Stone.
Stone of Tizoc.
Plate XLIV.
Coatlicue.
Plate XLV.
Mexican Writing.
Plate XLVI.
Aztecan Religion.
Plate XLVII.
Conceptions of the Universe.
Ceremonies.
Poetry and Music.
Minor Aztecan Arts.
The Tarascans.
Southern Mexico.
Aztecan Influence in Central America.
A Cross-Section of New World History
Food Plants Cultivated by American Indians
Important Economic Contributions of American Indians
Diagram of American Chronology
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FOOTNOTES
INDEX
ANTHROPOLOGICAL HANDBOOKS AND GUIDE LEAFLETS
HANDBOOKS
GUIDE LEAFLETS
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