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Unlike earlier geometric decorations, the war owls and other eighth-century motifs relate to Classic Maya art and writing. Eberl probes their meaning by comparing where they occur and by situating them in social structures that circumscribe individual action.

Mayas --- Maya art. --- Art, Maya --- Mayan art --- Art, Central American --- Art, Mexican --- History. --- Antiquities. --- Art

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Bodies of Maize, Eaters of Grain provides a comparative study of the earliest urban civilisations of the Maya lowlands and the Greek mainland. It builds upon earlier comparative studies by Gordon Childe, Robert Adams and Bruce Trigger, extending their work into new directions. Specifically, the focus lies on the art styles of the Late Preclassic lowland Maya and Mycenaean Greece. The approach used here seeks to combine more traditional iconographic approaches with more recent models on metaphor and the social agency of things. Comparing Maya and Mycenaean art styles through the three aspects of metaphor, semiotics and praxis, their differences and similarities are made clear. The book shows art to have played a more active role in the development of the earliest urban civilisations, rather than passively reflecting economic and political trends. In that way, the social role of art provides a key to understanding the relations between the different factors in the development of the two societies, as they played out at different temporal and geographical scales. To understand this, the notion of distinct Maya and Mycenaean 'material worlds', involving both materials and ideas, is proposed, with consequences for models about the earliest urban civilisations in general.

Maya art --- Art, Mycenaean --- Civilization, Mycenaean. --- Mayas --- Art, Comparative. --- Comparative civilization. --- Themes, motives. --- Intellectual life. --- Antiquities.

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This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity. Julia Guernsey situates the origins and evolution of monumental stone sculpture within a broader social and political context and demonstrates the role that such sculpture played in creating and institutionalizing social hierarchies. This book focuses specifically on an enigmatic type of public, monumental sculpture known as the 'potbelly' that traces its antecedents to earlier, small domestic ritual objects and ceramic figurines. The cessation of domestic rituals involving ceramic figurines along the Pacific slope coincided not only with the creation of the first monumental potbelly sculptures, but with the rise of the first state-level societies in Mesoamerica by the advent of the Late Preclassic period. The potbellies became central to the physical representation of new forms of social identity and expressions of political authority during this time of dramatic change.

Maya sculpture. --- Olmec sculpture. --- Indian sculpture --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Sculpture, Olmec --- Olmec art --- Sculpture, Mexican --- Mayas --- Sculpture, Maya --- Maya art --- Sculpture, Central American --- Sculpture --- Stone-sculpture --- Social Sciences --- Archeology

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Stelae dating to the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic from Tula, Xochicalco, and other sites in Central Mexico have been cited as evidence of Classic Maya `influence' on Central Mexican art during these periods. This book re-evaluates these claims via detailed comparative analysis of the Central Mexican stelae and their claimed Maya counterparts.

Stele (Archaeology) --- Maya sculpture. --- Tula Site (Tula de Allende, Mexico) --- Xochicalco Site (Mexico) --- Mayas --- Sculpture, Maya --- Maya art --- Sculpture, Central American --- Sculpture, Mexican --- Stela (Archaeology) --- Stelae (Archaeology) --- Stelai (Archaeology) --- Steles (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Menhirs --- Sculpture --- Mexico --- Tollan Site (Tula de Allende, Mexico) --- Tonatlán Site (Tula de Allende, Mexico) --- Antiquities --- Stèles