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- Title
The Memory of Stones: Ancient Maya Spolia in the Architecture of Early Colonial Yucatan.
- Authors
NIELSEN, JESPER
- Abstract
The article offers information on the memory of stones that might Ancient Maya Spolia in the Architecture of Early Colonial Yucatan. Topics inlcude the Maya area being a highly variable process, from the Guatemalan highlands, to northern Yucatan, and finally to the pacification of the last, independent Maya strongholds of the central Peten in the late seventeenth century, and the practice of embedding fragments of Precolumbian sculpture into churches and monastery walls.
- Subjects
YUCATAN (Mexico : State); MAYAS; ANCIENT art; INDIGENOUS peoples of Mexico; ANCIENT architecture; MILITARY communications; CHURCH architecture; CLERGY; STONE carving
- Publication
PARI Journal, 2020, Vol 20, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1531-5398
- Publication type
Article