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Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea
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Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea Hardcover - 2010

by Daniel Finamore (1961- ) and Stephen D Houston (editors)

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first

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328 pages with 99 plates including frontispiece, diagrams, bibliography and index. Small folio (12 1/4" x 10") bound in dark grey cloth with white lettering to spine and front cover. Signed by David Stuart on page 41. First edition.. Contents: The worlds of the ancient Maya and the worlds they made by Mary E Miller and Megan O'Neil; The wide waters of Palenqaue by David Stuart and signed by him; Living waters and wondrous beasts by Stephen D Houston; Symbols of water management at Copan, Honduras by Barbara W Fash; The music of shells by Marc Zender; Navigating the Maya world by Daniel Finamore; The dark lord of Maya trade by Simon Martin; The Maya ports Isla Cerritos and Uaymil by Rafael Cobos; Where earth and sky meet: The sea and sky in ancient and contemporary Maya cosmology by Karl A Taube; Offerings to the rain gods: The archaeology of Maya caves by James E Brady; Objects cast into cenotes by Luis Alberto Martos Lopez; Coda: The sea and art by Daniel Finamore. Condition: A near fine copy in like jacket.
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  • Title Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea
  • Author Daniel Finamore (1961- ) and Stephen D Houston (editors)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 328 pages with 99 plates including frontispiece, diagrams, bibliography and index
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Date 2010
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A0574
  • ISBN 9780300161373 / 0300161379
  • Weight 5.17 lbs (2.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 12.31 x 10.32 x 1.17 in (31.27 x 26.21 x 2.97 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Cultural Region: Mexican
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
  • Library of Congress subjects Caribbean Area, Mexico - Antiquities
  • Dewey Decimal Code 972.6

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About the author

Daniel Finamore is The Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Stephen D. Houston is The Dupee Family Professor of Social Science and Professor of Archaeology at Brown University.

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