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Title:Stone Houses & Earth Lords : Maya Religion in the Cave Context
Series:(Mesoamerican Worlds Series)
Author:Keith M Prufer & James E Brady (eds)
ISBN:0870818082 : 9780870818080
Illustrations:b/w photos & maps
Format:Hardback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:432
Weight: .695 Kg.
Published:University Press of Colorado - December 2005
List Price: 36.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Central American & Caribbean archaeology


This heavily illustrated compilation of current scholarship on cave archaeology in the Maya lowlands is the first dedicated to the subject and yields key insights into Maya ritual and cosmology. An important publication that fills a crucial niche in Maya scholarship and addresses issues important to archaeology, cave studies, religion, anthropology, global archaeology, and more.

"With Stone Houses and Earth Lords and another collection of broader scope (Brady & Prufer 2005), Maya cave archaeology has become one of the two best-studied traditions of subterranean achaeology in the world. Other than parts of France and Spain, there is no other region with such intensity of research and comparable intensity of ancient use. In no small part, this break-through results from the tenacity of James Brady. . . . Brady can claim to have created a specialty that can now rework prior Mayanist perception of the landscape. . . . The essential point of the chapters is that Maya caves relate to ideas and ritual practice, not to habitation and extraction of resources. . . . The volume contains real surprises. Brady’s comparison of finds from caves, especially in the Petexbatun sites, and those from surface excavations will—and should—shock most Mayanists. The sheer quantity of cave finds is stunning, as, incidentally, is their extraordinary preservation." — Cambridge Archaeological Journal