Cloth
| 6 x 9" | 456 pp. | 2003
24 color plates | 80 line art
ISBN 1-931707-51-0
ISBN 978-1-931707-51-0
$59.95
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UNDERSTANDING
EARLY
CLASSIC COPAN
Living, Working,
and Changing Together
Ellen
E. Bell, Marcello A. Canuto, & Robert J. Sharer
This
volume, the first to focus on the Early Classic context (ad
400–650) of the Maya city of Copán, combines and
synthesizes many different research methods and disciplines,
interpreting data that contradict, enhance, and supplement previous
work. Its methods are conjunctive, including and integrating
research in archaeological survey and excavations with studies
in art, hieroglyphics, history, forensic/biological anthropology,
and chemical analyses of teeth, bones, and other materials.
The book is not just multidisciplinary but interdisciplinary,
linking, for example, the architecture of monuments with epigraphy,
language concepts, and human events.
Until recently, scholars speculated whether K’inich Yax
K’uk’ Mo’ was an actual or fictitious founding
father to the Copán dynasty. This work presents new information
on him and his accomplishments, showing how we almost certainly
now have his skeleton with its parry fractures from the battlefield
and/or ball court. Abundant descriptions of this and other burials
are provided.
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