Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Iximché - (Maya and Mesoamerican Studies) by C Roger Nance & Stephen L Whittington & Barbara E Borg (Paperback)

About the Book

This book reconstructs the history of Iximche, the capital of the Cakchiquel Maya in highland Guatemala, based on archaeological and ethnohistorical information.

Book Synopsis

This book reconstructs the history of Iximche, the capital of the Cakchiquel Maya in highland Guatemala, based on archaeological and ethnohistorical information.

Review Quotes

"An
essential contribution to research on the Maya of the colonial and pre-colonial
period."--Antiquity

"A
praiseworthy effort to salvage archaeological information about Iximché,
capital of the Kaqchikel Maya, in the highlands of Guatemala. . . . The authors
have done an admirable job of reconstructing the investigations."--Ethnohistory

"Makes
a solid contribution to Mayan studies in general and to Late Postclassic Mayan
sociocultural history in particular."--Hispanic
American Historical Review

About the Author

C. Roger Nance is a research associate at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA and the author of The Archaeology of La Calsada: A Rockshelter in the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico. Stephen L. Whittington is director of the Museum of Anthropology and adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Wake Forest University. He is coeditor of Bones of the Ancient Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletons. Barbara E. Borg is associate professor of anthropology and archaeology at the College of Charleston and the author of several articles on the ethnohistory of the Cakchiquel Maya.