CONTRIBUTIONS IN NEW WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY
vol. 10 (2016)
INTO THE UNDERWORLD: ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE AFTERLIFE IN THE PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICAS
Edited by: Christophe Helmke & Jarosław Źrałka
Assistant editor: Monika Banach
CONTENTS
From the editors
Agnieszka Hamann
Through the valley of the shadow of death: Death as a typical domain requiring non-literal treatment
Monika Banach
Xo’l vitz y xe’ naloj: el paisaje sagrado de los mayas ixiles de Guatemala
Milan Kováč
Lacandon paths to the Underworld
Christophe Helmke and Ismael Arturo Montero García
Jesper Nielsen
The cave and the butterfly: Thoughts on death and rebirth in ancient Mesoamerica
Harri Kettunen
Uk’ay ajbuj: Otherworldly owls in the mundo maya
John S. Henderson and Kathryn M. Hudson
Places of beginning, modes of belonging: Steambaths and caves in Mesoamerica
Andrew D. Somerville and Geoffrey E. Braswell
The life, death, and afterlife of an ancient Maya king: A study of Pusilha Ruler G
Jarosław Źrałka, Wiesław Koszkul, Varinia Matute, Bogumił Pilarski,
Bernard Hermes, Juan Luis Velásquez
Lenka Horáková
Excavating data: Harmonization of burial data from Uaxactun, Guatemala
Jan Szymański
Out of the Underworld: The resurrection of the Maize God and its architectural context