Title from disc surface. Lecturer: Professor Edwin Barnhart, Maya Exploration Center. Course no. 3100. Program contains forty-eight lectures; the length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook. Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-343) in course guidebook.
Contents:
Disc 8. Frontiers of Mesoamerican Archaeology. Olmec Civilization Emerges ; Olmec Art as the Mother Culture ; Olmec Contemporaries ; Mesoamerican Plants, Cuisine, and Medicine ; Early Highland Maya: Izapa to Kaminaljuyu -- Disc 2. Preclassic Maya Lowlands: El Mirador ; The Popol Vuh: Creation and Hero Twins ; The Great City of Teotihuacan ; How the Maya Mastered Mathematics ; The World's Most Elaborate Calendar ; Tikal: Aspiring Capital of the Maya World -- Disc 3. Maya Hieroglyphs: Breaking the Code ; Maya Astronomy and Building Orientations ; The Dresden Codex ; Palenque: Jewel in the West ; Sacred Geometry in Art and Architecture ; Illuminating Works of Maya Art -- Disc 4. Copan: Jungle Dynasty of the East ; Calakmul: The Mighty Snake Kingdom ; The Mesoamerican Ball Game ; Enigmatic West Mexico and Shaft Tombs ; Classic Maya Collapse: Cities Abandoned! ; New Cities of the Terminal Classic: Uxmal -- Disc 5. Monte Alban and Zapotec Rule over Oaxaca ; The Mixtec Rise: Gold and Epic Stories ; The Great Pyramid of Cholula and El Tajin ; Cacaxtla Murals and Xochicalco ; The Toltecs: Role Models or Myth? ; Chichen Itza: Maya Capital of the Yucatan -- Disc 6. League of Mayapan: Maya New World Order ; Mesoamerican Religion ; Aztec Origins: Arrival and Rise of the Mexica ; The Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan ; Life in the Aztec World ; How the Aztecs Expanded Their Empire -- Disc 7. Independent Tarascans: Desert Warriors ; Paquime: Northernmost Mesoamerican City? ; Illuminating Works of Aztec Art ; Tulum: Aztecs at the Ancient Maya Port City ; First Contact with Europe in Mesoamerica ; The Siege of Tenochtitlan -- Disc 8. Conquest of the Maya and Landa's Legacy ; Fall of the Last Maya Kingdom: The Itza ; The Caste Wars of Yucatan ; Echoes of the Past in Mexico ; Maya Survival and Revival ; Frontiers of Mesoamerican Archaeology.
Summary:
Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed immerses you in the epic story of the Mexico's history with 48 exhilarating half-hour lectures that cover the full scope of Mesoamerican history and culture. Your guide is Professor Edwin Barnhart, Director of the Maya Exploration Center and a noted archaeologist, explorer, and teacher, whose exploits include the discovery of a lost Maya city.
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