The House of the Bacabs, Copán, Honduras

The House of the Bacabs, Copán, Honduras
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Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Total Pages : 120
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ISBN-10 : 0884021777
ISBN-13 : 9780884021773
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Book Synopsis The House of the Bacabs, Copán, Honduras by : David L. Webster

Download or read book The House of the Bacabs, Copán, Honduras written by David L. Webster and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1989 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorie Reents-Budet, Curator, Pre-Columbian Art, Duke University Museum of Art, Claude Baudez, William Fash Jr., Berthold Riese, William Sanders, and David Webster contribute to this monograph, and using an integrated art historical and anthropological approach, consider the House of the Bacabs' context as an elite Maya structure, its excavation and restoration, and its iconographic and epigraphic reconstruction and interpretation, to establish models for understanding Classic Maya social and political life.


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