GENERAL MAYA ARCHAEOLOGY
ARQUEOLOGIA, 1, INAH. 39 photos, 35 drawings, 13 maps, 6 tables, paperbound, 238 p. This is now "the" INAH archaeology series; this issue covers Sinaloa, Huaxtec Maya, Olmec, Tula, and others. We have only a single copy available.
Arqueologia Mexicana una Revista bimestral Volumen 2 Numero 11
CHOUINARD, Jeffrey, MOUTHS OF STONE: Stories of the Ancient Maya, 1995, covers art and archaeology of the ancient Maya, features drawings of Linda Shele, Barbara Fash & others, hardcover coffee table book with Beautiful cover photograph by Nicholas Hellmuth-F.L.A.A.R. Photo Archive., 242 p.
GARCIA MOLL, Roberto & BALI, Jaime PIEDRA DE LUZ -Dimension y Espancio en el Mexico PreColombino, 48 double page and 24 single page fabulously overpowering color photographs of Mesoamerican sites and land and seascapes by Guillermo Aldana. This is not "just a coffee table book". This is an example of what the art of photography can do to capture the mystique of the past. 142 p.
GREENE, Merle (general editor), SEVENTH PALENQUE ROUND TABLE, vol IX, 1989, articles on Olmec and Maya art and archaeology by ANDREWS, BARDSLEY, BENSON, BRICKER, CHASE, CLANCY, CLOSS, FASH, GOLDSTEIN, GRUBE, HARRISON, JONES, KERR, KURJACK, McGOVERN, REILLY, SCHELE, STUART, TATE, WREN, and more, 295 p.,
HELLMUTH, N., A General Introduction to Maya Art, Architecture, & Archaeology: Tikal Copan Travel Guide 1978: A Complete Guide to All of the Maya Ruins of...Central America
HILDSHEIM, DIE WELT DER MAYA, (in German), 264 color plates of precolombian artifacts with full page in depth analyses, descriptions and provenances, 14 articles in 284 pages w/175 beautiful color photographs of sites, stelae, codices, murals and artifacts. The authors of the articles are: Herbert Wilhelmy, Juan Antonio Valdes, Robert J. Sharer, Nicholas P. Dunning, Wolfgang W. Wurster, Oscar Quintana, Stephan D. Houston & David Stuart, David A. Freidel, Ted Leyenaar & Gerald W. van Bussel, Linda Schele, Nicholai Grube, T. Patrick Culbert, Diane & Arlene Chase, and Carolyn Tate. 636 p.
INAH, MEMORIA DEL CONGRESO INTERNO 1979. 60 photos, 16 maps, 11 figs, 364 p., includes Coba, Chichen Itza, Uxmal (excavation of the ballcourt), Xelha, caves of Loltun, Kohunlich, and more.
(INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS) XLI CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE AMERICANISTAS, Mexico 1974, Crammed with information (English, Spanish), $100 all three volumes together. Vol. I, 600 p, Vol. II, 679 p, Vol. III, 808 p, covers OLMEC, Maya, Teotihuacan, Aztec, Bilbao (Cotzumalhuapa) art, iconography, archaeology, Tikal, Monte Alban, Belize, articles by HELLMUTH, Hammond on Belize, Merle Greene Robertson on Palenque, and scores of others. Kekchi myths, ballgame goal sculptures, The following reports are all in this volume of the International Congress of Americanists, Geneva.
D. Heydon, "What is the Significance of the Mexica Pyramid"
Hasso Von Winning, Mexican Figurines Attached to Pallets and Cradles"
E. Pasztory, "The Gods of Teotihuacan"
Gordon Ekholm, "The Archaeological Significance of Mirrors in the New World"
Mary King, "A Textile Technique from Oaxaca, Mexico"
Norman Hammond, "Maya Settlement Patterns"
Lee Parsons, "Iconographic Notes on a new Izapan Stela from Abaj Takalik, Guatemala"
Sabloff and Rathje, "Changing pre-Columbian Commercial Patterns on the Island of Cozumel, Mexico"
Arthur Miller, "The Mural Painting at Tancah and in Structure 5 at Tulum: Implications of their Style and Iconography"
A. Digby, "Evidence in Mexican Glyphs and Sculpture for an unrecognized Astronomical Instrument"
F. Hochleitner, "The Correlation between the Mayan and the Julian Calendar" R. Fry, "The Archaeology of Southern Quintana Roo: Ceramics"
Peter Harrison, "The Lintels of Tzibanche, Quintana Roo"