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Janaab' Pakal of Palenque : reconstructing the life and death of a Maya ruler

Title: Janaab' Pakal of Palenque : reconstructing the life and death of a Maya ruler / edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina.
Publication: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2006.

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xiii, 219 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-210) and index.

Contents

Studying Janaab' Pakal and reconstructing Maya dynastic history / Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina -- Life and death of the ruler : recent bioarchaeological findings / Vera Tiesler -- Janaab' Pakal : the age-at-death controversy revisited / Jane E. Buikstra, George R. Milner, and Jesper L. Boldsen -- A histomorphometric analysis of the cortical bone of Janaab' Pakal's rib / Sam D. Stout and Margaret Streeter -- Pakal's age in the demographic context of late classic Palenque society / Lourdes Márquez, Patricia Hernández, and Carlos Serrano -- Did Pakal suffer from deforming diseases? : true facts and iconographic myths / Arturo Romano -- Geographic origin of Janaab' Pakal and the "red queen" : evidence from strontium isotopes / T. Douglas Price ... [et al.] -- The companions of Janaab' Pakal and the "red queen" from Palenque, Chiapas : meanings of human companion sacrifice in classic Maya society / Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler -- Longevity of Maya rulers of Yaxchilán : the reigns of shield jaguar and bird jaguar / Patricia Hernández and Lourdes Márquez -- Ancient Maya royal biographies in a comparative perspective / Nikolai Grube -- Discussion / John W. Verano.

Call Number

JGE 07-10

ISBN

0816525102 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780816525102 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005035582
9780816525102

OCLC

62593473

Title

Janaab' Pakal of Palenque : reconstructing the life and death of a Maya ruler / edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina.

Imprint

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-210) and index.

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Tiesler, Vera.

Cucina, Andrea, 1966-

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9780816525102

Research Call Number

JGE 07-10

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