Stephan F De Borhegyi
Biographic Data
| ID | 109197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephan F De Borhegyi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephan F |
| FAMILY NAME | De Borhegyi |
| SIGNATURE | DE BORHEGYI S F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Milwaukee Public Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 2 And 3: Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica
Pares de vasijas gemelas policromadas con figuras pintadas del área maya
Aunque las vasijas gemelas policromadas con figuras pintadas son comunes en las tumbas y ofrendas del área de cultura andina, son muy raras en Mesoamérica. Por esta razón, el par de vasijas gemelas policromadas con figuras pintadas de la colección del Milwaukee Public Museum, es de notable interés. Como las de la costa sur del Perú (ver figs. la y 1b), las vasijas gemelas policromadas del área Maya no están hechas en molde. Parecen representar el…
Una fecha de C-14 para la influencia teotihuacana en Guatemala
Puede ahora darse a conocer una muestra de C-14 por largo tiempo esperada del Laboratorio de C-14, de la Universidad de Michigan, ann Arbor, Michigan. M-1580. Una muestra de concha (Spondylus princeps Broderip) variedad de concha del Océano Pacífico, identificada por el Dr. Joseph Rosewater, Conservador Asociado, División de Moluscos, U.S. Nacional Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C
Piedras semiesféricas con asas para el juego de pelota y ‘manoplas’ en Mesoamérica: Una posible alternativa para su función
Hace algunos años resumí la distribución en Mesoamérica de varios tipos de objetos de piedra provistos de asas denominados en la literatura arqueológica como “manoplas” o como “pesas de piedra”, “candados de piedra” u “hondas de piedra”. En ese artículo (de Borhegyi, 1961) indiqué que se usaban con la mano para lanzar o desviar la pelota maciza de hule utilizada en el juego de pelota precolombino (ver de Borhegyi, 1960 y 1963)
Depósitos subterráneos en forma de botella y sonajas de barro del Preclásico de Guatemala
En un artículo reciente sobre cascabeles y sonajas, Rivard (1965) sugiere la posibilidad de que uno de los principales atributos del dios maya de la muerte, Ah Puch, hayan sido los cascabeles y que en algunos casos, los cascabeles o las sonajas representan en realidad los ojos de la muerte. No es mi intención discutir aquí la tesis de Rivard, dino señalar cómo el uso poco cuidadoso del material de referencia o una traducción eincorrecta, pueden c…
A New Role for Anthropology in the Natural History Museum
Anthropological Research, Action, and Education in Modern Nations: With Special Reference to the U.S.A. [and Comments and Reply]
Miniature 'Thin Stone Heads' and Other Pre-Columbian Miniature Stone Objects from Mesoamerica
A unique, miniature, anthropomorphic stonehachafrom the Gulf Coast of Mexico is described and illustrated. The author also discusses other miniature stone objects from Mesoamerica, such as mushroom stones, yokes, 'toad altars,' 'doughnut-stones,'metates, spherical stone balls, and star-shaped maceheads, and suggests that some of these Mesoamerican miniature stone objects may have been used in connection with the various forms of the pre-Columbian…
A Miniature Ceremonial Ballgame Yoke from Mexico
A unique, miniature horseshoe-shaped stone yoke from Papantla, near Tajin in Mexico, is described and illustrated. The undoubtedly ceremonial character of this and other miniature yokes seems to strengthen the hypothesis that the larger-sized stone yokes were used primarily as p r o t e c t i v e gear by pre-Columbian ball players
Concerning Girard's Reply to de Borhegyi's Review of Los Mayas Eternos
In his reply to de Borhegyi's review of his book Los Mayas Eternos , Girard succeeds in bringing greater confusion to the picture of Quiché and Maya cultural and history. In this rebuttal to Girard's reply, some pertinent archaeological facts relevant to the Classic period in Highland Guatemala are used to point out weaknesses in Girard's untenable theory that the Quiché-Mayas were responsible for the origin and development of such Mexican high c…
Archeology: Ancient Ruins and Archaeology. L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine de Camp
Pre-Columbian Ball-game Handstones: Rejoinder to Clune
On the basis of ethnohistorical data, Clune has questioned the identification and use of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican stone objects formerly known as 'padlock stones' or 'sling stones' and recently designated by de Borhegyi as 'ball-game handstones.' According to de Borhegyi, these stones were used by players in the Mesoamerican ball game to deflect or propel a high-arching ball. Archaeological evidence strongly supports the inference that 'ball-ga…
Los Mayas Eternos. Rafael Girard. Editores Libro Mex, Mexico, D. F., 1962. 494 pages, 250 photos, 1 table, 5 maps, and 94 text illustrations, n.p
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Pre-Columbian Pottery Mushrooms from Mesoamerica
Until recently, pre-Columbian mushroom-shaped pottery objects were known only from El Salvador. New evidence indicates that they were also used in Chiapas, Tabasco, and Veracruz, in Mexico, in the Lowland Maya Rain Forest area, and possibly on the Pacific coast of Guatemala. They seem to be diagnostics of the latter part of the Late Pre-Classic and Proto-Classic periods. Due to their resemblance, when turned upside down, to round-bottomed, tall-n…
Discovering the Lost Maya Cities
La Victoria: An Early Site on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala
Ciudad vieja
Saints in the Valleys
Miniature Mushroom Stones from Guatemala
A cache of nine miniature mushroom stones and nine miniature metates with manos from the Verbena cemetery at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala, date from the Verbena subphase of the Miraflores phase of the Preclassic, 1000-500 B.C. All of the mushroom stones are of Type B with a circular groove around the base of the cap. This type has been found in a Verbena tomb in Mound E-III-3 at the same site. The cache of nine miniatures demonstrates considerable anti…
Shark Teeth, Stingray Spines, and Shark Fishing in Ancient Mexico and Central America
Social and Cultural Dynamics
The Composite or 'Assemble-it-Yourself' Censer: A New Lowland Maya Variety of the Three-Pronged Incense Burner
A slit-sided, tubular 'incense burner' with three holes in the top, three solid, curved and tapering cylinders called 'chili-mashers,' and a flat, striated dish called a 'griddle' or 'comal'from sealed Cache B3 at San Jose, British Honduras are presented as separate units of a composite Lowland Maya variety of the three-pronged incense burner known from Highland Maya sites. Only the 'comal'shows signs of burning. The cylinders are removable prong…
Indian Art of Mexico and Central America
Archeology: Modern Yucatecan Maya Pottery Making. Raymond H. Thompson
Archeology: Antiguales (Altertümer) der Paya-Region und die Paya-Indianer von Nordost-Honduras. Karl Helbig
Miniature Mushroom Stones from Guatemala
A cache of nine miniature mushroom stones and nine miniature metates with manos from the Verbena cemetery at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala, date from the Verbena subphase of the Miraflores phase of the Preclassic, 1000-500 B.C. All of the mushroom stones are of Type B with a circular groove around the base of the cap. This type has been found in a Verbena tomb in Mound E-III-3 at the same site. The cache of nine miniatures demonstrates considerable anti…
Shark Teeth, Stingray Spines, and Shark Fishing in Ancient Mexico and Central America
The Development of Folk and Complex Cultures in the Southern Maya Area
Two generations of intensive archaeological work conducted in great part by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in the Southern Maya area have resulted in a wealth of factual information and the establishment of a fairly comprehensive and continuous cultural sequence. In spite of the many facts, few attempts have been made by Middle American archaeologists to synthesize this data and present it within a coherent conceptual framework. The reluc…
The Composite or 'Assemble-it-Yourself' Censer: A New Lowland Maya Variety of the Three-Pronged Incense Burner
A slit-sided, tubular 'incense burner' with three holes in the top, three solid, curved and tapering cylinders called 'chili-mashers,' and a flat, striated dish called a 'griddle' or 'comal'from sealed Cache B3 at San Jose, British Honduras are presented as separate units of a composite Lowland Maya variety of the three-pronged incense burner known from Highland Maya sites. Only the 'comal'shows signs of burning. The cylinders are removable prong…
Pre-Columbian Ball-game Handstones: Rejoinder to Clune
On the basis of ethnohistorical data, Clune has questioned the identification and use of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican stone objects formerly known as 'padlock stones' or 'sling stones' and recently designated by de Borhegyi as 'ball-game handstones.' According to de Borhegyi, these stones were used by players in the Mesoamerican ball game to deflect or propel a high-arching ball. Archaeological evidence strongly supports the inference that 'ball-ga…
Pre-Columbian Pottery Mushrooms from Mesoamerica
Until recently, pre-Columbian mushroom-shaped pottery objects were known only from El Salvador. New evidence indicates that they were also used in Chiapas, Tabasco, and Veracruz, in Mexico, in the Lowland Maya Rain Forest area, and possibly on the Pacific coast of Guatemala. They seem to be diagnostics of the latter part of the Late Pre-Classic and Proto-Classic periods. Due to their resemblance, when turned upside down, to round-bottomed, tall-n…
Evidence for Pre-Columbian Goiter in Guatemala
Detailed medical surveys recently concluded have shown Guatemala, and particularly the Guatemalan highlands, to have one of the highest incidence rates for endemic goiter in the world (Muñoz, Pérez, and Scrimshaw 1955a: 36-43; 1955b: 963-9). At the present time only the tropical and sparsely populated northern Department of Peten is without goiter as a serious public health problem. The incidence in the other departments varies from 21% to 68
Pottery Mask Tradition in Mesoamerica
Miniature 'Thin Stone Heads' and Other Pre-Columbian Miniature Stone Objects from Mesoamerica
A unique, miniature, anthropomorphic stonehachafrom the Gulf Coast of Mexico is described and illustrated. The author also discusses other miniature stone objects from Mesoamerica, such as mushroom stones, yokes, 'toad altars,' 'doughnut-stones,'metates, spherical stone balls, and star-shaped maceheads, and suggests that some of these Mesoamerican miniature stone objects may have been used in connection with the various forms of the pre-Columbian…
A Miniature Ceremonial Ballgame Yoke from Mexico
A unique, miniature horseshoe-shaped stone yoke from Papantla, near Tajin in Mexico, is described and illustrated. The undoubtedly ceremonial character of this and other miniature yokes seems to strengthen the hypothesis that the larger-sized stone yokes were used primarily as p r o t e c t i v e gear by pre-Columbian ball players
A New Role for Anthropology in the Natural History Museum
Concerning Girard's Reply to de Borhegyi's Review of Los Mayas Eternos
In his reply to de Borhegyi's review of his book Los Mayas Eternos , Girard succeeds in bringing greater confusion to the picture of Quiché and Maya cultural and history. In this rebuttal to Girard's reply, some pertinent archaeological facts relevant to the Classic period in Highland Guatemala are used to point out weaknesses in Girard's untenable theory that the Quiché-Mayas were responsible for the origin and development of such Mexican high c…
Chinese Figurines in Mesoamerica
In a recent article J. Alden Mason (1951) called attention to 2 small Chinese figurines found in local archaeological collections in Mesoamerica. One was from Azqueltan, Jalisco, Mexico and is now in the University Museum, Philadelphia (catalog number NA- 11808), and the other was in the Vitalino Robles collection of Quezaltenango, Guatemala. Both are of a soft stone and were described as 'crawling infants.' While browsing through a collection of…
Tonalá, Mexico: An Archaeological Survey . By Edwin N. Ferdon Jr
Jointed Figurines in Mesoamerica and Their Cultural Implication
Anthropological Research, Action, and Education in Modern Nations: With Special Reference to the U.S.A. [and Comments and Reply]
Archeology: Ancient Ruins and Archaeology. L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine de Camp
Saints in the Valleys
Indian Art of Mexico and Central America
Archeology: Modern Yucatecan Maya Pottery Making. Raymond H. Thompson
Archeology: Antiguales (Altertümer) der Paya-Region und die Paya-Indianer von Nordost-Honduras. Karl Helbig
The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization
Tonalá, Mexico: An Archaeological Survey . By Edwin N. Ferdon Jr
Jointed Figurines in Mesoamerica and Their Cultural Implication
The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization
Contributions to American Anthropology and History, Vol. XI, Numbers 52-56 . Contribution No. 52: "Geologic Observations on the Ancient Human Footprints Near Managua, Nicaragua" . By Howel Williams. C…
Chinese Figurines in Mesoamerica
In a recent article J. Alden Mason (1951) called attention to 2 small Chinese figurines found in local archaeological collections in Mesoamerica. One was from Azqueltan, Jalisco, Mexico and is now in the University Museum, Philadelphia (catalog number NA- 11808), and the other was in the Vitalino Robles collection of Quezaltenango, Guatemala. Both are of a soft stone and were described as 'crawling infants.' While browsing through a collection of…
Pottery Mask Tradition in Mesoamerica
The Development of Folk and Complex Cultures in the Southern Maya Area
Two generations of intensive archaeological work conducted in great part by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in the Southern Maya area have resulted in a wealth of factual information and the establishment of a fairly comprehensive and continuous cultural sequence. In spite of the many facts, few attempts have been made by Middle American archaeologists to synthesize this data and present it within a coherent conceptual framework. The reluc…
Las culturas preclásicas de la Cuenca de México
Evidence for Pre-Columbian Goiter in Guatemala
Detailed medical surveys recently concluded have shown Guatemala, and particularly the Guatemalan highlands, to have one of the highest incidence rates for endemic goiter in the world (Muñoz, Pérez, and Scrimshaw 1955a: 36-43; 1955b: 963-9). At the present time only the tropical and sparsely populated northern Department of Peten is without goiter as a serious public health problem. The incidence in the other departments varies from 21% to 68
Indian Art of Mexico and Central America
Archeology: Modern Yucatecan Maya Pottery Making. Raymond H. Thompson
Archeology: Antiguales (Altertümer) der Paya-Region und die Paya-Indianer von Nordost-Honduras. Karl Helbig
Social and Cultural Dynamics
The Composite or 'Assemble-it-Yourself' Censer: A New Lowland Maya Variety of the Three-Pronged Incense Burner
A slit-sided, tubular 'incense burner' with three holes in the top, three solid, curved and tapering cylinders called 'chili-mashers,' and a flat, striated dish called a 'griddle' or 'comal'from sealed Cache B3 at San Jose, British Honduras are presented as separate units of a composite Lowland Maya variety of the three-pronged incense burner known from Highland Maya sites. Only the 'comal'shows signs of burning. The cylinders are removable prong…
Ciudad vieja
Saints in the Valleys
Miniature Mushroom Stones from Guatemala
A cache of nine miniature mushroom stones and nine miniature metates with manos from the Verbena cemetery at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala, date from the Verbena subphase of the Miraflores phase of the Preclassic, 1000-500 B.C. All of the mushroom stones are of Type B with a circular groove around the base of the cap. This type has been found in a Verbena tomb in Mound E-III-3 at the same site. The cache of nine miniatures demonstrates considerable anti…
Shark Teeth, Stingray Spines, and Shark Fishing in Ancient Mexico and Central America
Discovering the Lost Maya Cities
La Victoria: An Early Site on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala
Los Mayas Eternos. Rafael Girard. Editores Libro Mex, Mexico, D. F., 1962. 494 pages, 250 photos, 1 table, 5 maps, and 94 text illustrations, n.p
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Pre-Columbian Pottery Mushrooms from Mesoamerica
Until recently, pre-Columbian mushroom-shaped pottery objects were known only from El Salvador. New evidence indicates that they were also used in Chiapas, Tabasco, and Veracruz, in Mexico, in the Lowland Maya Rain Forest area, and possibly on the Pacific coast of Guatemala. They seem to be diagnostics of the latter part of the Late Pre-Classic and Proto-Classic periods. Due to their resemblance, when turned upside down, to round-bottomed, tall-n…
Pre-Columbian Ball-game Handstones: Rejoinder to Clune
On the basis of ethnohistorical data, Clune has questioned the identification and use of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican stone objects formerly known as 'padlock stones' or 'sling stones' and recently designated by de Borhegyi as 'ball-game handstones.' According to de Borhegyi, these stones were used by players in the Mesoamerican ball game to deflect or propel a high-arching ball. Archaeological evidence strongly supports the inference that 'ball-ga…
Concerning Girard's Reply to de Borhegyi's Review of Los Mayas Eternos
In his reply to de Borhegyi's review of his book Los Mayas Eternos , Girard succeeds in bringing greater confusion to the picture of Quiché and Maya cultural and history. In this rebuttal to Girard's reply, some pertinent archaeological facts relevant to the Classic period in Highland Guatemala are used to point out weaknesses in Girard's untenable theory that the Quiché-Mayas were responsible for the origin and development of such Mexican high c…
Archeology: Ancient Ruins and Archaeology. L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine de Camp
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