Pyramid (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Non-Domestic Structures
A massive structure, typically with triangular outer surfaces that converge at the top. Often flat-topped to accommodate public gatherings and/or buildings.
101-106 (106 Records)
The material included here is from a companion CD-ROM included with Additions and Alterations: A Commentary on the Architecture of the North Acropolis, Tikal, Guatemala, Tikal Report 34A, by H. Stanley Loten. 112 color plates include constructions of individual structures and some photos of Acropolis fabric at the time of excavation and consolidation. The text accompanying the color plates provides a rationale for the sequences illustrated and an interpretation of ancient Maya intentions in...
Trabajos conducidos por la State University of New York dentro del Proyecto La Quemada 1989-90 (1992)
Fieldwork from the 1989-90 seasons at La Quemada
Valley of Mexico Archaeological Survey Project
Here are the Valley of Mexico survey data collected by University of Michigan projects directed by Jeffrey R. Parsons between 1967 and 1973, and by Richard E. Blanton in 1969. These descriptive data were originally published in 1983 as Archaeological Settlement Pattern Data from the Chalco, Xochimilco, Ixtapalapa, Texcoco, and Zumpango Regions, Mexico, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Technical Reports No. 14, by J. R. Parsons, K. W. Kintigh, and S. A. Gregg. Associated resources...
Western Lower Papaloapan Archaeology (Veracruz, Mexico): Forms
This archive includes an introduction to the field projects and publications as well as copies in pdf of original field and laboratory forms, digitized data files (generally in excel), and files with descriptions of variables in digitized files. The files will be added to tdar through a series of updates. The projects were sponsored by funding various agencies, with permission from the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico.
Whole Ceramic Vessels from the Blue Creek Site, Belize (2011)
Digital Images of Whole Ceramic Vessels from the Blue Creek Site, Belize
Zooarchaeological and Stable Isotope Analysis of Deer at Isla Cilvituk, Campeche, Mexico (2018)
The purpose of my thesis is to analyze the deer from the zooarchaeological assemblage recovered from the archaeological site of Isla Cilvituk, Campeche, Mexico, to determine if environmental depression affected Isla Cilvituk. Isla Cilvituk is a Maya archaeological site located in a lacustrine region on the Yucatán peninsula. Environmental depression is defined as the destruction of ecosystems by the mismanagement of resources and/or climate shifts. I focus on deforestation and animal...