Regional Expressions of the Postclassic Effigy Censer System in the Chetumal Bay Area

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Milbrath ◽  
Debra S. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Trace Element ◽  
Annual Cycle ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
Contact Period ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Deer Hunting ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Late Postclassic ◽  
Dresden Codex

This chapter describes the remains of Late Postclassic to Contact period pottery censers from Cerro Maya, Belize. Trace element studies reveal that these vessels were made nearby at the Late Postclassic political capital of Santa Rita Corozal and deposited at the site during pilgrimage ritual. The Cerro Maya material is compared to the Chen Mul Modeled effigy censers from Mayapán in northern Yucatan and elsewhere. Various deities were depicted on these censers, and these are compared to documentary evidence, such as in the Madrid Codex and the Dresden Codex, for their use in calendared public events linked to specific celebrations in the annual cycle. Iconographic detail on the Cerro Maya materials documents a distinct set of deities not present at Mayapán, especially the bee deity and the god of deer hunting.

An Imperfect Mahlerite

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-103
Author(s):  
Matthew Mugmon
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Aaron Copland ◽  
World War ◽  
Public Events ◽  
French Music ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Nadia Boulanger ◽  
And Performance

As one of the chief representatives of French music in the early twentieth century, Nadia Boulanger is typically ignored in discussions of the reception of Gustav Mahler’s music, which—like most studies of reception—focus primarily on press accounts and public events. Moreover, Boulanger is usually considered in the context of a broader French aversion, in the first half of the twentieth century, to Mahler’s late-Romantic Austro-German idiom. But a range of documentary evidence concerning her attendance at the 1920 Mahler festival in Amsterdam, including previously unexamined correspondence as well as scores annotated in her hand, reveals that, motivated by a post-World War I spirit of internationalism, Boulanger contributed materially to the study and performance of Mahler. She encouraged audiences to consider his music’s emotional power and analyzed it in a way that drew attention to its orchestration and the horizontal aspects of its construction. She also introduced such figures as Aaron Copland to Mahler’s music, preparing him to approach it in a way that centered on the vocabulary of neo-classicism. Boulanger’s engagement with Mahler not only contributes to our picture of the composer’s reception, but also reveals the historiographical value of discourses that take place behind the scenes.

Annual cycle of gross β activities in aerosol around Daya Bay area, China

Chemosphere ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 75 (7) ◽  
pp. 929-933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan-Jun Huang ◽  
Yun-Liang Tao ◽  
Jun Lin ◽  
Zhi-Hong Shang-Guan
Keyword(s):  
Annual Cycle ◽  
Daya Bay ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Gross Β

Compositional and Stylistic Analysis of Aztec-Era Ceramics: Provincial Strategies at the Edge of Empire, South-Central Veracruz, Mexico

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thanet Skoglund ◽  
Barbara L. Stark ◽  
Hector Neff ◽  
Michael D. Glascock
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Postclassic Period ◽  
South Central ◽  
Basin Of Mexico ◽  
Late Postclassic ◽  
Provincial Capital

We use a provincial perspective combined with compositional and stylistic data and historic accounts to propose three provincial strategies for imperial interactions—bolstering, resistance, and emulation—and note a fourth, exodus. A sample of three Late Postclassic period (A.D. 1350–1521) pottery types differs in chemical composition between two localities in south-central Veracruz, Mexico. Sherds from the Aztec provincial capital of Cuetlaxtlan along the lower Cotaxtla River are compared to those from the Lower Blanco River where Callejón del Horno is located. The composition of stamped-base bowls, Texcoco Molded censers, and Aztec III-style Black-on-orange bowls is distinct in samples from the two localities, with only scant evidence of exchange. A few vessels of Aztec III Black-on-orange were imported from the Basin of Mexico to Cuetlaxtlan. The stylistic characteristics on Aztec III-style Black-on-orange vessels do not distinguish the two Veracruz localities, but there are differences between them and illustrated vessels from the Basin of Mexico. The Cuetlaxtlan province was subject to unusual imperial investments, which may account partly for the emulation of imperial styles. Despite documentary evidence of rebellions, another factor was local decisions to use a prestigious exogenous style.

scholarly journals Granitoids and dykes of the Pine Island Bay region, West Antarctica

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 473-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Kipf ◽  
Nicholas Mortimer ◽  
Reinhard Werner ◽  
Karsten Gohl ◽  
Paul Van Den Bogaard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Trace Element ◽  
Granitic Rocks ◽  
Geochemical Data ◽  
West Antarctica ◽  
Laser Method ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Gondwana Margin ◽  
Plutonic Rocks ◽  
Age Range

AbstractWe present geochronological and geochemical data for eight plutonic rocks from five locations in the Pine Island Bay area of West Antarctica, collected during RV Polarstern expedition ANT-XXIII/4. Ar-Ar laser method dating yielded closure temperatures ages of c. 147–98 Ma for dioritic and granitic plutonic rocks and an age range of c. 97–95 Ma for granitoid and trachyandesitic dykes. Major and trace element compositions indicate that all rocks have an I-type subduction-related chemistry. There are no A-type granitic rocks in our dataset, and none are yet reported from the Pine Island Bay area. Our results confirm earlier models of post 100 Ma subduction on this part of the Gondwana margin.

Sitting on the Dock of the Bay

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Howie ◽  
Terry G. Powis ◽  
Elizabeth Graham
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Petrographic Analysis ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
Exchange Networks ◽  
European Contact ◽  
Terminal Classic ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Late Postclassic

In this chapter the authors examine change in interregional exchange networks across time. They focus on the movement of pottery across short distances between Chetumal Bay and the study site, Lamanai. The large urban center is 80 kilometers inland on the New River Lagoon. Rather than exotic goods, the authors isolate the movement of “redundant” material goods, presumed to have had less intrinsic value since they were produced locally in abundance. Using geological sourcing and petrographic analysis, they compare the origins of samples of Lamanai pottery in three transitional eras, the Terminal Preclassic, Terminal Classic, and Late Postclassic periods, to measure the connectedness of the trading communities. In terms of redundant ceramics, it appears the bay area influenced Lamanai at the Preclassic-Classic transition, while Lamanai provided a stronger influence on the bay area at the Terminal Classic–Postclassic boundary. At the time of European contact, Lamanai was again aligned with the bay area, particularly in terms of effigy censer distribution.

Trace element concentrations in aerosols from the San Francisco Bay Area

1973 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. John ◽  
R. Kaifer ◽  
K. Rahn ◽  
J.J. Wesolowski
Keyword(s):  
Trace Element ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Element Concentrations ◽  
Bay Area

Reunification of the Wendat/Wyandotte Nation at a Time of Globalization

2008 ◽  
pp. 3299-3318
Author(s):  
Linda Sioui
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Total Population ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Contact Period ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Northern Limit ◽  
Georgian Bay ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Linguistic Family ◽  
Lake Simcoe

In the 17th century, an important period of contact with Europeans, the Wendat nation (Iroquoian linguistic family) lived in the Georgian Bay area, close to Lake Simcoe, in Ontario, Canada. Its territory is located at the northern limit of southern Ontario’s agricultural lands. Data vary regarding the total population at the beginning of the seventeenth century (the contact period), but it may be assessed to have been 29,000 souls on average (Trigger, 1976, p. 30). To start with, the Wendat nation comprised four nations distributed among several villages. A fifth nation joined later. The French called this semi-sedentary people “Hurons,” thus referring to the tuft of hair on a wild boar’s head the nation’s warriors’ hairstyle reminded them of.

Reunification of the Wendat/Wyandotte Nation at a Time of Globalization

2007 ◽  
pp. 310-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Sioui
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Total Population ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Contact Period ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Northern Limit ◽  
Georgian Bay ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Linguistic Family ◽  
Lake Simcoe

In the 17th century, an important period of contact with Europeans, the Wendat nation (Iroquoian linguistic family) lived in the Georgian Bay area, close to Lake Simcoe, in Ontario, Canada. Its territory is located at the northern limit of southern Ontario’s agricultural lands. Data vary regarding the total population at the beginning of the seventeenth century (the contact period), but it may be assessed to have been 29,000 souls on average (Trigger, 1976, p. 30). To start with, the Wendat nation comprised four nations distributed among several villages. A fifth nation joined later. The French called this semi-sedentary people “Hurons,” thus referring to the tuft of hair on a wild boar’s head the nation’s warriors’ hairstyle reminded them of.

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