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Indians of Central America--Antiquities--Congresses, Central America--Antiquities--Congresses.
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1993
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F1434.R43 1993eb
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972.8/01
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Indians of Central America--Antiquities--Congresses, Central America--Antiquities--Congresses.
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Reinterpreting Prehistory of Central America
Mark Miller Graham, Editor
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO
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Copyright 1993 by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544
All rights reserved.
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The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reinterpreting prehistory of Central America/Mark Miller Graham, editor.
p. cm.
Papers presented at a conference held at the Denver Museum of Natural History, Nov. 14, 1990.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-87081-255-6 (alk. paper)
1. Indians of Central America Antiquities Congresses. 2. Central America Antiquities Congresses. I. Graham, Mark Miller, 1944
F1434.R43 1992
972.8'01 dc20
92-30675 CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48 1984
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This volume is dedicated to those other great discoverers of America, the women and men of The Maya and Their Neighbors
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Contents
Contributors
ix
Foreword
Jan Perry Mayer and Frederick R. Mayer
xi
Preface
Mark Miller Graham
xiii
Acknowledgments
Frederick W. Lange
xv
1. Displacing the Center: Constructing Prehistory in Central America
Mark Miller Graham
1
2. A Global View of Central America
Terence Grieder
39
3. The Construction of the Mesoamerican Frontier and the Mayoid Image of Honduran Polychromes
Rosemary A. Joyce
51
4. Art, Ideology, and Totality: Representational Art of Costa Rica's Central Region in the Late Period (A.D. 8001500)
Oscar M. Fonseca Zamora
103
5. Fatal Attractions: Interpretation of Prehistoric Mortuary Remains from Lower Central America
Peter S. Briggs
141
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6. Animal Icons and Pre-Columbian Society: The Felidae, with Special Reference to Panama
Richard Cooke
169
7. Cosmological Chromatics: Color-Related Symbolism in the Ceramic Art of Ancient Panama
Mary W. Helms
209
8. Writing Culture in Prehistoric Central America
Whitney Davis
253
9. The Conceptual Structure in Lower Central American Studies: A Central American View
Frederick W. Lange
277
Index
325
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Contributors
Peter S. Briggs is curator of art at the University of Arizona Museum of Art.
Richard Cooke is a specialist in faunal analysis at the Archaeology Laboratory of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
Whitney Davis teaches art history at Northwestern University.
Oscar M. Fonseca Zamora is the chair of archaeology at the University of Costa Rica.
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