Nikolai Grube
Biographic Data
| ID | 228952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikolai Grube |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikolai |
| FAMILY NAME | Grube |
| SIGNATURE | GRUBE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bonn |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0100-8608 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Una calavera tallada de caracol Oliva
Este trabajo discute un pendiente en forma de calavera manufacturado en un caracol del género Oliva, procedente del sitio arqueológico Uxul (Campeche, México). Se analiza la pieza desde diferentes puntos de vista para acercarse a su función y significado. Además de un análisis detallado de ésta y de su contexto arqueológico, el artículo ofrece una comparación supraregional con objetos similares que también pueden atribuirse al Área Maya prehispán…
The contribution of 3D models to the study of stone monuments in the Maya area
The Maya area is known for its numerous monuments sculpted in limestone, which suffered severe erosion over time. The Mayas used soft limestone, which is sensitive to weathering, to carve iconographic motives and inscriptions on stelae, altars and panels. A systematic program of documentation was developed for monuments considered plain-without reliefs visible to the naked eye. Thanks to photogrammetry and various treatments generated from photog…
Seeking pathways for sustainable urban tourism
This article explores the current dynamics in the policy field of urban tourism and new approaches to sustainable urban tourism that have emerged after years of growing tensions and controversial debates in the pre-COVID 19 era. By using a critical interpretive approach of a discourse-based deconstruction, the case of Berlin and its novel approach of ‘city-compatible tourism’ are used to analyse how, in the context of a proclaimed policy change, …
The Myths of Popol Vuh in Cosmology, Art and Ritual
La Estela 87 de Tak’alik Ab’aj
The discovery of Stela 87 in situ in a secondary context, as a reused element of sacralization in a possibly royal residence from the Early Classic, allows us to locate the time of the original function as a stela in the Late Preclassic. It is in the Late Preclassic that the image and the text with 4 glyphic signs allude to the ruler represented there. It is in the early part of the Late Preclassic that stelae at Tak’alik Ab’aj and other early ci…
A Story of Awe and Clay
The recent discovery of an ancient Late Classic ceramic production facility in a valley floor, east of the current capital of Cobán in Guatemala, reveals a new ceramic form and provides data concerning regional chronology. Among the remains are thin, mold-made fragments identified as ceramic plaques that have epigraphic information providing a Long Count date for the first time in the Alta Verapaz region. These data correlate with the preliminary…
Nostalgic Kings
Kritische Stadtexkursionen
Exkursionen erheben gern Anspruch auf einen Zugriff auf unverstellte Wirklichkeit. Daher überrascht es kaum, dass es auch in der Stadtforschung in Praxis und Lehre zum guten Ton gehört, ‚ins Feld zu gehen‘. Die ‚Praxis des Exkursierens‘ wird jedoch zu selten kritisch betrachtet und Methodenlehre oftmals milde belächelt. Die Vermittlung von Methoden zur Wissensaneignung ist jedoch außerordentlich wichtig und hilft uns, Positionen in der Welt zu be…
Under the Rule of the Snake Kings
Desde el 2009, la Universidad de Bonn efectúa trabajos arqueológicos en el sitio de Uxul, una ciudad maya del Clásico en el extremo sur del estado de Campeche. El objetivo del proyecto es investigar la expansión y desintegración de los poderes hegemónicos en el área maya, con un enfoque en la zona central de las Tierras Bajas y específicamente en la estrecha relación de Uxul con los gobernantes de la poderosa dinastía Kaan de Calakmul. Evidencia …
Maya Writing
Ancient Maya civilization is widely known for its hieroglyphic writing system. Although the Maya were not the only Mesoamerican civilization that had developed writing, Maya hieroglyphs have received major attention because of the sheer size of the script corpus as well as the fact that Maya writing has been deciphered during the last thirty years so that approximately 75 percent of its written texts can now be understood. This article discusses …
Das Gottkönigtum bei den Klassischen Maya
Herrscherkult und Heilserwartung
Könige und Herrscher galten über die Zeiten hinweg als schlichtweg außergewöhnliche Menschen. Neben angeborenen Fähigkeiten bei der Staats- und Heeresführung wurden ihnen Heil- und Wunderkraft, übermenschliches Charisma, besondere Gottesnähe, ja eigene Göttlichkeit zugeschrieben. Das Buch zeigt, wie sich dieses sakrale Königtum gegen alle Alleinvertretungsansprüche der monotheistischen Religionen dauerhaft behaupten konnte. Dabei wird deutlich, d…
"A Maya Palace at Holmul, Peten, Guatemala and the Teotihuacan "Entrada
Excavations at La Sufricaya, a minor ritual group in the outskirts of the Lowland Maya city of Holmul, have documented two mural paintings inside an elite building of Early Classic date (A.D. 300-A.D. 600). One of the paintings is mythological in nature (Mural 9). The second bears an inscription with references to calendrical and historical events. It commemorates a notorious arrival date at Tikal on 11 Eb 15 Mak (January 16, A.D. 378) on its fir…
Ancient Maya Royal Biographies in a Comparative Perspective
Cacao in Eastern Guatemala––a sacred tree with ecological significance
Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov
On Classic Maya Inscriptions
Classic Maya Place Names
Classic Maya Dance
A long-known verbal glyph in Classic Maya inscriptions is reinterpreted as a glyph for dancing (ahk'ot), apparently an important ritual of the ancient Maya. The glyph is found with scenes showing one or several dancers. Glyphs after the verb can be shown to describe the objects and instruments employed in dances. This article analyzes several examples of Maya dances and the ritual and social context in which they occur. These include the dance wi…
"A Maya Palace at Holmul, Peten, Guatemala and the Teotihuacan "Entrada
Excavations at La Sufricaya, a minor ritual group in the outskirts of the Lowland Maya city of Holmul, have documented two mural paintings inside an elite building of Early Classic date (A.D. 300-A.D. 600). One of the paintings is mythological in nature (Mural 9). The second bears an inscription with references to calendrical and historical events. It commemorates a notorious arrival date at Tikal on 11 Eb 15 Mak (January 16, A.D. 378) on its fir…
Classic Maya Dance
A long-known verbal glyph in Classic Maya inscriptions is reinterpreted as a glyph for dancing (ahk'ot), apparently an important ritual of the ancient Maya. The glyph is found with scenes showing one or several dancers. Glyphs after the verb can be shown to describe the objects and instruments employed in dances. This article analyzes several examples of Maya dances and the ritual and social context in which they occur. These include the dance wi…
On Classic Maya Inscriptions
La Estela 87 de Tak’alik Ab’aj
The discovery of Stela 87 in situ in a secondary context, as a reused element of sacralization in a possibly royal residence from the Early Classic, allows us to locate the time of the original function as a stela in the Late Preclassic. It is in the Late Preclassic that the image and the text with 4 glyphic signs allude to the ruler represented there. It is in the early part of the Late Preclassic that stelae at Tak’alik Ab’aj and other early ci…
Classic Maya Dance
A long-known verbal glyph in Classic Maya inscriptions is reinterpreted as a glyph for dancing (ahk'ot), apparently an important ritual of the ancient Maya. The glyph is found with scenes showing one or several dancers. Glyphs after the verb can be shown to describe the objects and instruments employed in dances. This article analyzes several examples of Maya dances and the ritual and social context in which they occur. These include the dance wi…
Classic Maya Place Names
Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov
On Classic Maya Inscriptions
Ancient Maya Royal Biographies in a Comparative Perspective
Cacao in Eastern Guatemala––a sacred tree with ecological significance
"A Maya Palace at Holmul, Peten, Guatemala and the Teotihuacan "Entrada
Excavations at La Sufricaya, a minor ritual group in the outskirts of the Lowland Maya city of Holmul, have documented two mural paintings inside an elite building of Early Classic date (A.D. 300-A.D. 600). One of the paintings is mythological in nature (Mural 9). The second bears an inscription with references to calendrical and historical events. It commemorates a notorious arrival date at Tikal on 11 Eb 15 Mak (January 16, A.D. 378) on its fir…
Das Gottkönigtum bei den Klassischen Maya
Herrscherkult und Heilserwartung
Könige und Herrscher galten über die Zeiten hinweg als schlichtweg außergewöhnliche Menschen. Neben angeborenen Fähigkeiten bei der Staats- und Heeresführung wurden ihnen Heil- und Wunderkraft, übermenschliches Charisma, besondere Gottesnähe, ja eigene Göttlichkeit zugeschrieben. Das Buch zeigt, wie sich dieses sakrale Königtum gegen alle Alleinvertretungsansprüche der monotheistischen Religionen dauerhaft behaupten konnte. Dabei wird deutlich, d…
Maya Writing
Ancient Maya civilization is widely known for its hieroglyphic writing system. Although the Maya were not the only Mesoamerican civilization that had developed writing, Maya hieroglyphs have received major attention because of the sheer size of the script corpus as well as the fact that Maya writing has been deciphered during the last thirty years so that approximately 75 percent of its written texts can now be understood. This article discusses …
Under the Rule of the Snake Kings
Desde el 2009, la Universidad de Bonn efectúa trabajos arqueológicos en el sitio de Uxul, una ciudad maya del Clásico en el extremo sur del estado de Campeche. El objetivo del proyecto es investigar la expansión y desintegración de los poderes hegemónicos en el área maya, con un enfoque en la zona central de las Tierras Bajas y específicamente en la estrecha relación de Uxul con los gobernantes de la poderosa dinastía Kaan de Calakmul. Evidencia …
Kritische Stadtexkursionen
Exkursionen erheben gern Anspruch auf einen Zugriff auf unverstellte Wirklichkeit. Daher überrascht es kaum, dass es auch in der Stadtforschung in Praxis und Lehre zum guten Ton gehört, ‚ins Feld zu gehen‘. Die ‚Praxis des Exkursierens‘ wird jedoch zu selten kritisch betrachtet und Methodenlehre oftmals milde belächelt. Die Vermittlung von Methoden zur Wissensaneignung ist jedoch außerordentlich wichtig und hilft uns, Positionen in der Welt zu be…
Nostalgic Kings
La Estela 87 de Tak’alik Ab’aj
The discovery of Stela 87 in situ in a secondary context, as a reused element of sacralization in a possibly royal residence from the Early Classic, allows us to locate the time of the original function as a stela in the Late Preclassic. It is in the Late Preclassic that the image and the text with 4 glyphic signs allude to the ruler represented there. It is in the early part of the Late Preclassic that stelae at Tak’alik Ab’aj and other early ci…
A Story of Awe and Clay
The recent discovery of an ancient Late Classic ceramic production facility in a valley floor, east of the current capital of Cobán in Guatemala, reveals a new ceramic form and provides data concerning regional chronology. Among the remains are thin, mold-made fragments identified as ceramic plaques that have epigraphic information providing a Long Count date for the first time in the Alta Verapaz region. These data correlate with the preliminary…
Seeking pathways for sustainable urban tourism
This article explores the current dynamics in the policy field of urban tourism and new approaches to sustainable urban tourism that have emerged after years of growing tensions and controversial debates in the pre-COVID 19 era. By using a critical interpretive approach of a discourse-based deconstruction, the case of Berlin and its novel approach of ‘city-compatible tourism’ are used to analyse how, in the context of a proclaimed policy change, …
The Myths of Popol Vuh in Cosmology, Art and Ritual
The contribution of 3D models to the study of stone monuments in the Maya area
The Maya area is known for its numerous monuments sculpted in limestone, which suffered severe erosion over time. The Mayas used soft limestone, which is sensitive to weathering, to carve iconographic motives and inscriptions on stelae, altars and panels. A systematic program of documentation was developed for monuments considered plain-without reliefs visible to the naked eye. Thanks to photogrammetry and various treatments generated from photog…
Una calavera tallada de caracol Oliva
Este trabajo discute un pendiente en forma de calavera manufacturado en un caracol del género Oliva, procedente del sitio arqueológico Uxul (Campeche, México). Se analiza la pieza desde diferentes puntos de vista para acercarse a su función y significado. Además de un análisis detallado de ésta y de su contexto arqueológico, el artículo ofrece una comparación supraregional con objetos similares que también pueden atribuirse al Área Maya prehispán…
Archaeology (11 works) · History (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Latin American history and culture (9 works) · Maya (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Art (8 works) · History (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Art history (3 works)