Outgrowth of a symposium held at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in 2005. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The bioarchaeology of Maya sacrifice / Jane E. Buikstra. Funerary or nonfunerary? : new references in identifying ancient Maya sacrificial and postsacrificial behaviors from human assemblages / Vera Tiesler -- The creation and sacrifice of witches in Classic Maya society / Lisa J. Lucero and Sherry A. Gibbs -- Empowered and disempowered during the Late to Terminal Classic transition / Eleanor Harrison-Buck, Patricia A. McAnany, and Rebecca Storey -- Posthumous body treatments and ritual meaning in the Classic period northern Petén / Cecilia Medina Martín and Mirna Sánchez Vargas -- Human sacrifice in Late Postclassic Maya iconography and texts / Gabrielle Vail and Christine Hernández -- Skeletons, skulls, and bones in the art of Chichén Itzá / Virginia E. Miller -- Sacrifice and ritual body mutilation in Postclassical Maya society / Guillermo de Anda Alanís -- Sacred spaces and human funerary and nonfunerary placements in Champotón, Campeche, during the Postclassic period / Araceli Hurtado Cen ... [et al.] -- Human sacrificial rites among the Maya of Mayapán / Stanley Serafin and Carlos Peraza Lope -- Nutrition, lifestyle, and social status of skeletal remains from nonfunerary and "problematical" contexts / Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler -- Victims of sacrifice / T. Douglas Price ... [et al.]. -- The bioarchaeology of Maya sacrifice / Jane E. Buikstra.
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