Reinterpreting prehistory of Central America. Mark Miller Graham, editor

• Author: Graham, Mark Miller (1944-)
• Subjects: Indiens d'Amérique -- Antiquités -- Congrès -- Amérique centrale;
  Indians of Central America -- Antiquities -- Congresses;
  Amérique centrale -- Antiquités -- Congrès;
  Central America -- Antiquities -- Congresses
• Description: Papers presented at a conference held at the Denver Museum of Natural History, Nov. 1-4, 1990
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Displacing the center : constructing prehistory in Central America / Mark Miller Graham A global view of Central America / Terence Grieder The construction of the Mesoamerican frontier and Mayoid image of Honduran polychromes / Rosemary A. Joyce Art, ideology, and totality : representational art of Costa Rica's Central Region in the Late Period (A.D. 800-1500) / Oscar M. Fonseca Zamora Fatal attractions : interpretation of prehistoric mortuary remains from Lower Central America / Peter S. Briggs Animal icons and Pre-Columbian society : the Felidae with special reference to Panama / Richard Cooke Cosmological chromatics : color-related symbolism in the ceramic art of ancient Panama / Mary W. Helms Writing culture in prehistoric Central America / Whitney Davis The conceptual structure in Lower Central American Studies : a Central American view / Frederick W. Lange
  
• Publisher: Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c1993
  
• Creation Date: c1993
  
• Format: xvi, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
  
• Language: English