Artifacts from the Cenote of Sacrifice, Chichen Itza, Yucatan (Peabody Museum Memoirs)

出版者:Peabody Museum Press

作者:April K. Sievert

页数:408

出版时间:1992-09

价格:USD 75.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780873656948

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. </p>