University Press Of Colorado: 252 books

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by Gerald N. Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013

 In Lousy Sex Gerald Callahan explores the science of self, illustrating the immune system’s role in forming individual identity. Blending the scientific essay with deeply personal narratives, these poignant and enlightening stories use microbiology and immunology to explore a new way to answer...
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Archaeometallurgy in Mesoamerica

Current Approaches and New Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013

Presenting the latest in archaeometallurgical research in a Mesoamerican context, Archaeometallurgy in Mesoamerica brings together up-to-date research from the most notable scholars in the field. These contributors analyze data from a variety of sites, examining current approaches to the study of...
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The Archaeology of Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey

The Economic and Social Dynamics of Mass Hunting

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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018

The Archaeology of Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey explores the social and functional aspects of large-scale hunting adaptations in the archaeological record. Mass-kill hunting strategies are ubiquitous in human prehistory and exhibit culturally specific economic, social, environmental, and demographic...
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Stories in Stone

The Enchanted Gem Carvings of Vasily Konovalenko

by Stephen E. Nash, James W. Hagadorn, Tatiana Muntian
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016

Vasily Konovalenko’s unique, dynamic, and theatrical sculptures stand alone in the gem-carving world—bawdy but not salacious, political but not diplomatic, boisterous and exuberant yet occasionally sensitive*. Stories in Stone* offers the first comprehensive treatment of the life of this little-known...
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Rituals of the Past

Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology

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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017

Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars...
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Memory Traces

Analyzing Sacred Space at Five Mesoamerican Sites

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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

In Memory Traces, art historians and archaeologists come together to examine the nature of sacred space in Mesoamerica. Through five well-known and important centers of political power and artistic invention in Mesoamerica—Tetitla at Teotihuacan, Tula Grande, the Mound of the Building Columns at...
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"The Only True People"

Linking Maya Identities Past and Present

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

"The Only True People" is a timely and rigorous examination of ethnicity among the ancient and modern Maya, focusing on ethnogenesis and exploring the complexities of Maya identity—how it developed, where and when it emerged, and why it continues to change over time. In the volume, a...
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Patron Gods and Patron Lords

The Semiotics of Classic Maya Community Cults

by Joanne Baron
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

In the first comprehensive treatment of Classic Maya patron deity veneration, Joanne P. Baron demonstrates the central importance of patron deity cults in political relationships between both rulers and their subjects and among different Maya kingdoms. Weaving together evidence from inscriptions,...
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Yellowstone Wildlife

Ecology and Natural History of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

by Paul A. Johnsgard
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013

Yellowstone Wildlife is a natural history of the wildlife species that call Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem their home. Illustrated with stunning images by renowned wildlife photographer Thomas Mangelsen, Yellowstone Wildlife describes the lives of species in the park,...
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Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology

Investigations into Pre-Columbian Iroquoian Space and Place

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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017

Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology examines Northern Iroquoian archaeology through various lenses at multiple spatial levels, including individual households, village constructions, relationships between villages in a local region, and relationships between various Iroquoian nations...
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Incidence of Travel

Recent Journeys in Ancient South America

by Jerry D. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

In Incidence of Travel, archaeologist Jerry Moore draws on his personal experiences and historical and archaeological studies throughout South America to explore and understand the ways traditional peoples created cultural landscapes in the region. Using new narrative structures, Moore introduces...
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Manufactured Light

Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016

Complex and time-consuming to produce, iron-ore mirrors stand out among Prehispanic artifacts for their aesthetic beauty, their symbolic implications, and the complexity and skill of their assembly. Manufactured Light presents the latest archaeological research on these items, focusing on the intersection...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica is an interdisciplinary tour de force that establishes the critical role astronomy played in the religious and civic lives of the ancient peoples of Mesoamerica. Providing extraordinary examples of how Precolumbian peoples merged...
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Tezcatlipoca

Trickster and Supreme Deity

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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015

Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity brings archaeological evidence into the body of scholarship on “the lord of the smoking mirror,” one of the most important Aztec deities. While iconographic and textual resources from sixteenth-century chroniclers and codices have contributed greatly to...
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