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Books by Barbara Fash






The Copan Sculpture Museum(Updated)
Ancient Maya Artistry in Stucco and Stone (Peabody Museum)
by Barbara W. Fash
Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2011 by Peabody Museum Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87365-858-4, ISBN: 0-87365-858-2

" The Copan Sculpture Museum in western Honduras features the extraordinary stone carvings of the ancient Maya city known as Copan. The city's sculptors produced some of the finest and most animated buildings and temples in the Maya area, in addition to stunning monolithic statues and altars. The ruins of Copan were named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1980, and more than 150,000 national and international tourists visit the ancient cit ..."






Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Volume 10
Part 1: Cotzumalhuapa
by Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Barbara W. Fash, Ian Graham, Peter Mathews, Eric Von Euw
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2018 by Peabody Museum Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87365-868-3, ISBN: 0-87365-868-X

"The goal of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions is to document in photographs and detailed line drawings all known Maya inscriptions and their associated figurative art. When complete, the Corpus will have published the inscriptions from over 200 sites and 2,000 monuments. The series has been instrumental in the remarkable success of the ongoing process of deciphering Maya writing, making available hundreds of texts to epigraph ..."






Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Volume 3
Part 4: Yaxchilan [Soft Cover ]
by Barbara W. Fash, Ian Graham, Alexandre Tokovinine, Peter Mathews, Eric Von Euw, David Stuart
Paperback, Published 2022 by U.S. Peabody Museum Of Archaeology & Ethnology Dez 2022
ISBN-13: 978-0-87365-872-0, ISBN: 0-87365-872-8

"The goal of this unique series of folio volumes is to document in photographs and detailed line drawings all known Maya inscriptions and their associated figurative art."






Precolumbian Water Management
Ideology, Ritual, and Power
by Lisa Joyce Lucero, Barbara W. Fash
Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Arizona Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-2314-6, ISBN: 0-8165-2314-2

"Among ancient Mesoamerican and Southwestern peoples, water was as essential as maize for sustenance and was a driving force in the development of complex society. Control of water shaped the political, economic, and religious landscape of the ancient Americas, yet it is often overlooked in Precolumbian studies. Now one volume offers the latest thinking on water systems and their place within the ancient physical and mental language of t ..."






The Art of Urbanism
How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia)
by William L. Fash, Ann Cyphers, Robert H. Cobean, Leonardo López Luján, Contributor-Susan Gillespie, Anna Di Castro, Barbara W. Fash, David C. Grove, Dan Healan, Amparo Robles, Dr Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Rex Koontz, Alfredo Lopez Austin, Joyce Marcus, Patricia Plunket, William Ringle, William Saturno, Alexandre Tokovinine, Gabriela Urunuela, Zoltan Paulinyi, George J. Bey, Leonardo Lâ¢Pez Lujân, Leonardo L¢Pez Lujn, William Leonard Fash
Paperback, 488 Pages, Published 2012 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection
ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-378-4, ISBN: 0-88402-378-8

"The Art of Urbanism explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physical—and metaphysical—place via their built environment. Themes in ..."






Zuni, Hopi, Copan – Early Anthropology at Harvard, 1890–1893
by Hinsley, Curtis M., Hieb, Louis A., Fash, Barbara W.
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2023 by Peabody Museum Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87365-915-4, ISBN: 0-87365-915-5






Past Presented
Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia)
by Joanne Pillsbury, Alain Schnapp, Stephen D. Houston, Scott R. Hutson, Barbara W. Fash, Bryan R. Just, Jason Weems, John W. Rick, Adam T. Sellen, Leonardo López Luján, Khristaan D. Villela, Byron Ellsworth Hamann, Lisa Trever
Hardcover, 520 Pages, Published 2012 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection
ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-380-7, ISBN: 0-88402-380-X

"Illustrations remain one of the fundamental tools of archaeology, a means by which we share information and build ideas. Often treated as if they were neutral representations, archaeological illustrations are the convergence of science and the imagination. This volume, a collection of fourteen essays addressing the visual presentation of the Pre-Columbian past from the fifteenth century to the present day, explores and contextualizes th ..."






The Art of Urbanism(9th Edition)
How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia)
by Leonardo López Luján, William Leonard Fash, Contributor-Ann Cyphers, William L. Fash, Robert H. Cobean, Anna Di Castro, Barbara W. Fash, Susan Gillespie, David C. Grove, Dan Healan, Rex Koontz, Alfredo Lopez Austin, Joyce Marcus, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Patricia Plunket, William Ringle, Amparo Robles, William Saturno, Alexandre Tokovinine, Gabriela Urunuela, Zoltan Paulinyi, George J. Bey
Hardcover, 488 Pages, Published 2009 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection
ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-344-9, ISBN: 0-88402-344-3

" This volume explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors to this volume consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physical—and metaphysical—place via their built environment. T ..."






Scribes, Warriors, and Kings(Updated)
The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya, Revised Edition
by William Léonard Fash, Barbara W. Fash
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2001 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-28282-3, ISBN: 0-500-28282-X

"Copán in modern Honduras was one of the great cities of the Classic Maya. Abandoned to the rain forest for nearly a thousand years, it was rediscovered in the early 1800s. Now, two centuries later, an international team of scholars is solving the puzzle of Copán and the ancient Maya. William Fash, himself one of the key contributors to the recent breakthroughs, describes how decipherment of the Maya inscriptions together with tomb finds ..."






Scribes, Warriors and Kings(Updated)
The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya (New Aspects of Antiquity)
by William L. Fash, Barbara W. Fash
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1993 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-27708-9, ISBN: 0-500-27708-7

"Copan in modern Honduras was one of the great cities of the Classic Maya. Explorers found ruined temples, plazas, and more hieroglyphic inscriptions and sculpted monuments than in any other site in the New World. But the stones were silent, the script undeciphered. At last, an international team of scholars is solving the puzzle of Copan and the ancient Maya. William Fash shows how decipherment of the Maya inscriptions, together with ne ..."






Scribes, Warriors and Kings(1st Edition)
The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya (New Aspects of Antiquity)
by William Leonard Fash, Barbara W. Fash
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1991 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-39028-3, ISBN: 0-500-39028-2

"pp. 192, b/w and colour illustrations, "Traces the history of the city of Copan, and describes how new discoveries are shedding light on the city's collapse.""






Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks
(Pre-Columbian Art at Dumbarton Oaks)
by Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Barbara Arroyo, Reiko Ishihara-Brito, Alexandre Tokovinine, Ronald L. Bishop, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, John E. Clark, Barbara W. Fash, Virginia M. Fields, Megan O'neil, Simon Martin, Stephen D. Houston, Fred W. Nelson, Dorie Reents-Budet, Karl A. Taube, Gene L. Titmus, Loa P. Traxler, Adrián Velázquez Castro, Prof Joanne Pillsbury, Virginia Fields, Aa. Vv., Exhibition Miriam Doutriaux
Hardcover, 584 Pages, Published 2012 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection
ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-375-3, ISBN: 0-88402-375-3

"Based on the comprehensive study of one of the most important collections of Maya art in the United States, "Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks" is a scholarly introduction to one of the great traditions of sculpture and painting in ancient America. Assembled by Robert Woods Bliss between 1935 and 1962, the collection is historically important, as it was one of the first to be established on the basis of aesthetic criteria. The catalogu ..."






Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Volume 1(1st Edition)
Introduction (Wertheim Publications in Industrial Relations)
by Ian Graham, Peter Mathews, Eric Von Euw, David Stuart, Barbara W. Fash
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2004 by Peabody Museum Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87365-779-2, ISBN: 0-87365-779-9

"For more than 25 years the Peabody Museum has been publishing "The Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions" under the editorial and artistic direction of Mayanist Ian Graham. The goal of this unique series of folio volumes is to document in photographs and detailed line drawings all known Maya inscriptions and their associated figurative art. When complete, the "Corpus" will have published the inscriptions from over 200 sites and 2,000 ..."






The Skyband Group, Copán Honduras
Penn State Excavations 1990, 1997 (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology: Access Archaeology, 59)
by Webster, David, Fash, Barbara W., Reed, David, Storey, Rebecca, Widmer, Randolph
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2023 by Archaeopress
ISBN-13: 978-1-80327-429-4, ISBN: 1-80327-429-8






Secrets of the Maya(Updated)
by Peter A. Young, Archaeology Magazine Staff, Archaeology Magazine Editors, Contributor-William Fash, Contributor-Barbara Fash, Contributor-Simon Martin, Editor-Barbara Fash, Publisher-Simon Martin
Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2004 by Red Brick Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-57826-170-3, ISBN: 1-57826-170-8

"Unlock the mysteries of the Mayan world. Deep in the rain forests of South and Central America, the Mayan culture thrived for almost 4,000 years. From the earliest Mayan farmer in 2,600 BC through the thirteenth century AD, the Maya developed an elaborate society, built great cities and temples, and created the only real system of writing native to the Americas. Although many of the intricacies of the Mayan culture remain shrouded in ..."

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