Research Catalog

Title

On the edge of the sea : mural painting at Tancah-Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico / Arthur G. Miller ; with appendices by Joseph W. Ball, Frank P. Saul, Anthony P. Andrews.

Author

Miller, Arthur G., 1942-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks, 1982.

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Details

Description

xiii, 133 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 30 cm

Subject

• Indians of Mexico Mexico Quintana Roo (State)
• Maya mural painting and decoration Mexico Quintana Roo (State)
• Maya painting
• Mayas > Peinture
• Peuples autochtones > Mexique > Quintana Roo
• Peinture et décoration murales > Mexique > Quintana Roo
• Peinture maya
• Maya painting
• Indians of Mexico
• Maya mural painting and decoration
• Archeologische vindplaatsen
• Muurschilderingen
• Maya's
• Peinture et décoration murales maya > Mexique > Quintana Roo
• Tulum Site (Mexico)
• Tancah Site (Mexico)
• Tulum (Mexique : Site archéologique)
• Tancah (Mexique : Site archéologique)
• Mexico > Quintana Roo (State)
• Mexico > Tancah Site
• Mexico > Tulum Site
• Tancah (Mexique ; site archéologique)
• Tulum (Mexique ; site archéologique)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A mural tradition in its setting : the case of Tuncah and Tulum -- Chronological implications of architectures and ceramics at Tancah and Tulum -- The developmental sequence of the Tancah-Tulum mural tradition -- Cycles of commerce and conquest : a prehistory and history of the Tancah-Tulum region -- Cycles of cult : an iconology of the Tulum mural tradition -- The Tancah ceramic solution : cultural and historical insights from an alternative material class / Joseph W. Ball -- The human skeletal remains from Tancah, Mexico / Frank P. Saul -- Archaeological mollusca from Tancah, Quintana Roo : a brief report / Anthony P. Andrews.

ISBN

• 088402105X
• 9780884021056

LCCN

81015278

OCLC

• ocm07877106
• 7877106
• SCSB-41296

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library