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  • Alterity and domesticity: limning the ambit of ancient Maya civilisation

  • Norman Hammond
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 99 / Issue 403 / February 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 December 2024, pp. 239-243
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    February 2025
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  • These are, as their titles indicate, two very different Maya books: Christina Halperin's is at the hard-core end of theoretical interpretation and aimed at the professional market, while Traci Ardren's is an attempt to explain ancient Maya civilisation to a general audience. Both succeed in their basic objectives and both have annoying minor flaws.

  • The carved monuments of La Milpa, Belize: Results of photogrammetric and epigraphic documentation

  • Christophe Helmke, Norman Hammond, Fred Valdez, Jr., Thomas Guderjan
  • Journal:
    Ancient Mesoamerica / Volume 35 / Issue 3 / Fall 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 December 2024, pp. 950-971
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    Fall 2024
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  • La Milpa, situated in northern Belize, stands out as one of the region's largest archaeological sites, having served as the capital of an ancient Maya city-state. Its significance is indicated by extensive monumental architecture, with the epicenter covering approximately 8.8 ha. The site's corpus of monuments, comprising 23 stelae and several altars, underscores its prominence in northern Belize, rivaling the corpora of sites such as Nim li Punit and Caracol. Despite its remote location, La Milpa has garnered the attention of researchers, particularly since the first modern survey of the site in 1988. Subsequent studies—in particular, that by Nikolai Grube in the 1990s—has provided detailed analyses of the site's corpus of carved monuments. Recent efforts, including epigraphic documentation in 2019, serve to enhance our understanding of La Milpa's dynastic history through traditional epigraphic and computational photographic methods. Utilizing field observations, raking light photography, and 3D photogrammetric models, we have refined previous analyses and provide new insights into the iconography and textual segments of the monuments. Here, we present the results of these recent efforts as well as our new analyses of a selection of monuments.

  • The Aberdeen Celt: an early twentieth-century Olmec find

  • Norman Hammond, Karl Taube
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 93 / Issue 368 / April 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 April 2019, pp. 488-501
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    April 2019

  • The distinctive character of Olmec art and culture within the wider Mesoamerican tradition was only fully recognised in the twentieth century. The authenticity and significance of several aspects of Olmec workmanship and imagery, however, remain the subject of debate. Here, the authors report on an incised stone celt (axe) from southern Mexico, which bears imagery relating it to the Middle Preclassic Olmec of the earlier first millennium BC. The image is interpreted as a Mesoamerican maize deity grasping a corn ear fetish. Originally discovered in 1910, its early date makes the object valuable for confirming debated aspects of Olmec art and culture.

Medieval St Andrews
  • Church, Cult, City
  • With contributions by Catherine Smith , David Ditchburn , Derek Hall , Elizabeth Ewan , Elizabeth Rhodes , Ian Campbell , Julian Luxford , Matthew Hammond , Michael H. Brown , Norman Reid , Richard Fawcett , Roger A. Mason , Simon Taylor , Tom Turpie and Katie Stevenson
  • Edited by Katie Stevenson, Michael Brown
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
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    28 April 2017
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    17 February 2017
  • St Andrews was of tremendous significance in medieval Scotland. Its importance remains readily apparent in the buildings which cluster the rocky promontory jutting out into the North Sea: the towers and walls of cathedral, castle and university provide reminders of the status and wealth of the city in the Middle Ages. As a centre of earthly and spiritual government, as the place of veneration forScotland's patron saint and as an ancient seat of learning, St Andrews was the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland.
    This volume provides the first full study of this special and multi-faceted centre throughout its golden age. The fourteen chapters use St Andrews as a focus for the discussion of multiple aspects of medieval life in Scotland. They examine church, spirituality, urban society andlearning in a specific context from the seventh to the sixteenth century, allowing for the consideration of St Andrews alongside other great religious and political centres of medieval Europe.

    Michael Brown is Professor of Medieval Scottish History, University of St Andrews; Katie Stevenson is Keeper of Scottish History and Archaeology, National Museums Scotland and Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval History, University of St Andrews.

    Contributors: Michael Brown, Ian Campbell, David Ditchburn, Elizabeth Ewan, Richard Fawcett, Derek Hall, Matthew Hammond, Julian Luxford, Roger Mason, Norman Reid, Bess Rhodes, Catherine Smith, Katie Stevenson, Simon Taylor, Tom Turpie.

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