Robert L Rands
Biographic Data
| ID | 123576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert L Rands |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert L |
| FAMILY NAME | Rands |
| SIGNATURE | RANDS R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 2 And 3: Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica
Cerámica de la región de Palenque, México
En la sociedad del Periodo Clásico maya, la función del centro ceremonial ha sido de mucho interés. En años recientes, el problema ha sido generalmente enfocado a través de los estudios hechos sobre patrones de asentamiento (Willey y Bullard, 1965). La cerámica, principalmente usada en las reconstrucciones del espacio-tiempo, tiene también mucho que contribuir para un entendimiento de las relaciones entre los más importantes centros ceremoniales …
Excavaciones en un cementerio de Palenque
Doctor en Filosofía de la Universidad de Columbia, especializado en arqueología mesoamericana. Profesor de antropología de la Universidad de Mississippi; Investigador del Museo de la Universidad de Pennsylvania. Trabaja con la cerámica de Palenque y Piedras Negras. Obras principales: The Water Lily in Mayan Art: A complex of Alleged Asiatic Origin, Some Manifestations of Water in Mesoarnerican Art, Elaboration and Invention in Ceramic Traditions
Multiple Classifications: An Alternative Approach to the Investigation of Maya Ceramics
The introduction of the type-variety system as a means of classifying Maya ceramics had considerable success in promoting communication among researchers. There was hope that it would prove to be possible to devise a single unitary system of ceramic analysis based on type-variety. We believe that such a hope was doomed to failure. Ceramic complexity is too great to be subsumed in any single typological system. Attempts to incorporate the many var…
Ceramic analysis and synthesis: Searching for new levels of understanding
Longacre, William A., ed. Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991. viii + 308 pp. including chapter notes, collected bibliography, and index. $50.00 cloth. Sinopoli, Carla M. Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics. New York: Plenum, 1991. xiii + 237 pp. including appendix, glossary, references, and index. $39.50 cloth
Ceramic Compositional Analysis in Archaeological Perspective
Archaeology: Social Process in Maya Prehistory: Studies in Honor of Sir Eric Thompson. Norman Hammond
Man across the Sea, Problem of Pre-Columbian Contacts
Man Across the Sea: Problems of Pre-Columbian Contacts
Man Across the Sea: Problems of Pre-Columbian Contacts
Elaboration and Invention in Ceramic Traditions
A significant working difference between the mode and type is seen to lie in the greater tendency of the former to reappear on different time levels. In part, this is because more opportunity exists for the chance reduplication of an isolated feature than for a group of integrated attributes. Consideration of the flange-and-ridge and the everted-rim traditions in Maya ceramics focuses attention on additional factors which may help to account for …
The Archaeological Ceramics of Yucatan
Diffusion and Discontinuous Distribution
Comparative Notes on the Hand-Eye and Related Motifs
Almost 50 years ago, Clarence B. Moore called attention to the presence of “the symbol of the open eye on the open hand” in both the Southeastern United States and Mexico (Moore 1907: 346). The design has achieved some renown as one of the motifs characterizing the so-called “Death Cult” in the Southeast and has also continued to be cited as an indication of Middle American connections (for example, Phillips 1940: 356). Rather little has been don…
Archeology: Ceramic Sequence at Uaxactun, Guatemala. Robert E. Smith
The Ceramic Position of Palenque, Chiapas
Although the site of Palenque, Chiapas, has long been one of the most famous of Maya ruins, its pottery has until recently remained virtually unknown. Aided by a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and with the cooperation of the Institute of Andean Research, the writers conducted ceramic excavations at Palenque in the summer of 1951. With the assistance of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the…
General and Theoretical: The Study of Prehistory: An Inaugural Lecture. J. G. D. C lark
Ethnology and Ethnography: The People of Panama. John and Mavis Biesanz
An Archaeological Approach to the Study of Cultural Stability
The study of cultural stability requires a knowledge of cultural development over a reasonably long span of time. The definition of this time perspective is one of the major contributions of archaeology to the study of culture. The archaeologist therefore should be in a position to make a significant contribution to the appraisal of the stability problem itself. However, the lack of a commonly accepted anthropological definition of the concept of…
Horned Serpent Stories
Artistic Connections Between the Chichen Itza Toltec and the Classic Maya
A recent development of some interest in Maya archaeology has been the appearance of several studies showing rather unexpected connections between the art of the Toltec period at Chichen Itza and that of the late Great period in the Classic centers to the south. Inferentially, this may indicate the approximate contemporaneity of the Chichen Itza Toltec and the late Classic Maya. Such a reconstruction is not only a far cry from the outmoded concep…
An Archaeological Approach to the Study of Cultural Stability
The study of cultural stability requires a knowledge of cultural development over a reasonably long span of time. The definition of this time perspective is one of the major contributions of archaeology to the study of culture. The archaeologist therefore should be in a position to make a significant contribution to the appraisal of the stability problem itself. However, the lack of a commonly accepted anthropological definition of the concept of…
Diffusion and Discontinuous Distribution
The Ceramic Position of Palenque, Chiapas
Although the site of Palenque, Chiapas, has long been one of the most famous of Maya ruins, its pottery has until recently remained virtually unknown. Aided by a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and with the cooperation of the Institute of Andean Research, the writers conducted ceramic excavations at Palenque in the summer of 1951. With the assistance of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the…
Multiple Classifications: An Alternative Approach to the Investigation of Maya Ceramics
The introduction of the type-variety system as a means of classifying Maya ceramics had considerable success in promoting communication among researchers. There was hope that it would prove to be possible to devise a single unitary system of ceramic analysis based on type-variety. We believe that such a hope was doomed to failure. Ceramic complexity is too great to be subsumed in any single typological system. Attempts to incorporate the many var…
Man Across the Sea: Problems of Pre-Columbian Contacts
Cerámica de la región de Palenque, México
En la sociedad del Periodo Clásico maya, la función del centro ceremonial ha sido de mucho interés. En años recientes, el problema ha sido generalmente enfocado a través de los estudios hechos sobre patrones de asentamiento (Willey y Bullard, 1965). La cerámica, principalmente usada en las reconstrucciones del espacio-tiempo, tiene también mucho que contribuir para un entendimiento de las relaciones entre los más importantes centros ceremoniales …
Elaboration and Invention in Ceramic Traditions
A significant working difference between the mode and type is seen to lie in the greater tendency of the former to reappear on different time levels. In part, this is because more opportunity exists for the chance reduplication of an isolated feature than for a group of integrated attributes. Consideration of the flange-and-ridge and the everted-rim traditions in Maya ceramics focuses attention on additional factors which may help to account for …
Comparative Notes on the Hand-Eye and Related Motifs
Almost 50 years ago, Clarence B. Moore called attention to the presence of “the symbol of the open eye on the open hand” in both the Southeastern United States and Mexico (Moore 1907: 346). The design has achieved some renown as one of the motifs characterizing the so-called “Death Cult” in the Southeast and has also continued to be cited as an indication of Middle American connections (for example, Phillips 1940: 356). Rather little has been don…
Artistic Connections Between the Chichen Itza Toltec and the Classic Maya
A recent development of some interest in Maya archaeology has been the appearance of several studies showing rather unexpected connections between the art of the Toltec period at Chichen Itza and that of the late Great period in the Classic centers to the south. Inferentially, this may indicate the approximate contemporaneity of the Chichen Itza Toltec and the late Classic Maya. Such a reconstruction is not only a far cry from the outmoded concep…
Horned Serpent Stories
Artistic Connections Between the Chichen Itza Toltec and the Classic Maya
A recent development of some interest in Maya archaeology has been the appearance of several studies showing rather unexpected connections between the art of the Toltec period at Chichen Itza and that of the late Great period in the Classic centers to the south. Inferentially, this may indicate the approximate contemporaneity of the Chichen Itza Toltec and the late Classic Maya. Such a reconstruction is not only a far cry from the outmoded concep…
An Archaeological Approach to the Study of Cultural Stability
The study of cultural stability requires a knowledge of cultural development over a reasonably long span of time. The definition of this time perspective is one of the major contributions of archaeology to the study of culture. The archaeologist therefore should be in a position to make a significant contribution to the appraisal of the stability problem itself. However, the lack of a commonly accepted anthropological definition of the concept of…
General and Theoretical: The Study of Prehistory: An Inaugural Lecture. J. G. D. C lark
Ethnology and Ethnography: The People of Panama. John and Mavis Biesanz
Comparative Notes on the Hand-Eye and Related Motifs
Almost 50 years ago, Clarence B. Moore called attention to the presence of “the symbol of the open eye on the open hand” in both the Southeastern United States and Mexico (Moore 1907: 346). The design has achieved some renown as one of the motifs characterizing the so-called “Death Cult” in the Southeast and has also continued to be cited as an indication of Middle American connections (for example, Phillips 1940: 356). Rather little has been don…
Archeology: Ceramic Sequence at Uaxactun, Guatemala. Robert E. Smith
The Ceramic Position of Palenque, Chiapas
Although the site of Palenque, Chiapas, has long been one of the most famous of Maya ruins, its pottery has until recently remained virtually unknown. Aided by a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and with the cooperation of the Institute of Andean Research, the writers conducted ceramic excavations at Palenque in the summer of 1951. With the assistance of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the…
Diffusion and Discontinuous Distribution
The Archaeological Ceramics of Yucatan
Elaboration and Invention in Ceramic Traditions
A significant working difference between the mode and type is seen to lie in the greater tendency of the former to reappear on different time levels. In part, this is because more opportunity exists for the chance reduplication of an isolated feature than for a group of integrated attributes. Consideration of the flange-and-ridge and the everted-rim traditions in Maya ceramics focuses attention on additional factors which may help to account for …
Man Across the Sea: Problems of Pre-Columbian Contacts
Man across the Sea, Problem of Pre-Columbian Contacts
Man Across the Sea: Problems of Pre-Columbian Contacts
Archaeology: Social Process in Maya Prehistory: Studies in Honor of Sir Eric Thompson. Norman Hammond
Ceramic Compositional Analysis in Archaeological Perspective
Ceramic analysis and synthesis: Searching for new levels of understanding
Longacre, William A., ed. Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991. viii + 308 pp. including chapter notes, collected bibliography, and index. $50.00 cloth. Sinopoli, Carla M. Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics. New York: Plenum, 1991. xiii + 237 pp. including appendix, glossary, references, and index. $39.50 cloth
Multiple Classifications: An Alternative Approach to the Investigation of Maya Ceramics
The introduction of the type-variety system as a means of classifying Maya ceramics had considerable success in promoting communication among researchers. There was hope that it would prove to be possible to devise a single unitary system of ceramic analysis based on type-variety. We believe that such a hope was doomed to failure. Ceramic complexity is too great to be subsumed in any single typological system. Attempts to incorporate the many var…
Cerámica de la región de Palenque, México
En la sociedad del Periodo Clásico maya, la función del centro ceremonial ha sido de mucho interés. En años recientes, el problema ha sido generalmente enfocado a través de los estudios hechos sobre patrones de asentamiento (Willey y Bullard, 1965). La cerámica, principalmente usada en las reconstrucciones del espacio-tiempo, tiene también mucho que contribuir para un entendimiento de las relaciones entre los más importantes centros ceremoniales …
Excavaciones en un cementerio de Palenque
Doctor en Filosofía de la Universidad de Columbia, especializado en arqueología mesoamericana. Profesor de antropología de la Universidad de Mississippi; Investigador del Museo de la Universidad de Pennsylvania. Trabaja con la cerámica de Palenque y Piedras Negras. Obras principales: The Water Lily in Mayan Art: A complex of Alleged Asiatic Origin, Some Manifestations of Water in Mesoarnerican Art, Elaboration and Invention in Ceramic Traditions
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 2 And 3: Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica
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