Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere) by Rice, Prudence M

University of Texas Press, 2007. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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University of Texas Press, 2007-11-01. paperback. Good. 9x0x10. Paperback--cover slight wear--spine and pages excellent

University of Texas Press, 2007-11-01. paperback. Very Good. 8x0x11. Paperback. Minor wear to page edges and corners. Name on front end sheet. No writing, highlighting, or marks in text. From the estate of a smoker.

University of Texas Press, November 2007. Trade Paperback . Used. Date inked on FFE. A square, tight and unmarked copy.

New. In Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos, Prudence M. Rice proposed a new model of Maya political organization in which geopolitical seats of power rotated according to a 256-year calendar cycle known as the May. This fundamental connection between timekeeping and Maya political organization sparked Rice's interest in the origins of the two major calendars used by the ancient lowland Maya, one 260 days long, and the other having 365 days. In Maya Calendar Origins, she presents a provocative new thesis about the origins and development of the calendrical system. Integrating data from anthropology, archaeology, art history, astronomy, ethnohistory, myth, and linguistics, Rice argues that the Maya calendars developed about a millennium earlier than commonly thought, around 1200 BC, as an outgrowth of observations of the natural phenomena that scheduled the movements of late Archaic hunter-gatherer-collectors throughout what became Mesoamerica. She asserts that an… Read More

Univ of Texas Pr, 2007. Paperback. New. 268 pages. 11.25x8.75x0.75 inches.

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University of Texas Press, 2007-11-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!