Jeremy D Coltman

Biographic Data

ID2076299
NAMEJeremy D Coltman
GIVEN NAMESJeremy D
FAMILY NAMEColtman
SIGNATURECOLTMAN J D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Riverside
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Digital reconstruction of a serpent column at Chichen Itza's El Castillo

    Open AccessScott Mcavoy, Claudia García-Solís et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2025References: 2

    Atop El Castillo, the largest pyramid within the Maya site of Chichen Itza, in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, stand two ruined columns that once portrayed the feathered serpent deity K'uk'ulkan. 3D-imaging technologies have identified scattered sculptural fragments belonging to these columns, allowing a digital reconstruction that opens new possibilities for their conservation

  • When East Meets West: Chichen Itza, Tula, and the Postclassic Mesoamerican world

    Jeremy D Coltman, Nelda I Marengo Camacho et al.BOOKWhen East Meets West2023

    This volume represents the first large-scale reconsideration of the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic periods in broader Mesoamerica in 20 years. In part, the focus is to examine the influence of the ruins of Classic period Teotihuacan in the political, social, and economic structures of societies at the transition to the Postclassic period. Teotihuacan was a locus of critical cultural innovations in Mesoamerica. These innovations included fusing …

  • Sorcery in Mesoamerica

    Jeremy D Coltman, Jeremy Coltman et al.BOOKSorcery in Mesoamerica2020

  • The Jaguar’s Line: Witchcraft and Sorcery in Mesoamerica

    Timothy J Knab, Jeremy D Coltman et al.CHAPTERSorcery in Mesoamerica2020

  • Nahualli ihuan tlamacazqui: Witches, Sorcerers, and Priests in Ancient Mexico

    Roberto Martínez González, Jeremy D Coltman et al.CHAPTERSorcery in Mesoamerica2020

    In 1632 Thomas Gage, a Dominican friar of English ancestry, was ministering to the highland Maya community of Petapa, Guatemala, when he became involved in a remarkable encounter with the leaders of two rival political factions within the community.They told me that the report went that Juan Gómez was the chief wizard of all the wizards and witches in the town, and that commonly he was wont to be changed into the shape of a lion, and so to walk a…

  • “The Devil Incarnate”: A Comparative Perspective on “Deer-Serpents” in Mesoamerican Beliefs and Ritual Practices

    Jesper Nielsen, Jeremy D Coltman et al.CHAPTERSorcery in Mesoamerica2020

    In 1632 Thomas Gage, a Dominican friar of English ancestry, was ministering to the highland Maya community of Petapa, Guatemala, when he became involved in a remarkable encounter with the leaders of two rival political factions within the community.They told me that the report went that Juan Gómez was the chief wizard of all the wizards and witches in the town, and that commonly he was wont to be changed into the shape of a lion, and so to walk a…

  • Where Night Reigns Eternal: Darkness and Deep Time among the Ancient Maya

    Jeremy D Coltman, Jeremy ColtmanCHAPTERArchaeology of the Night2017

  • Bats and theCamazotz: Correcting a Century of Mistaken Identity

    Open AccessJames E Brady, Jeremy D Coltman et al.ARTICLELatin American Antiquity2016Cited by: 2References: 22

    At the end of the nineteenth century, Eduard Seler identified the bats depicted on a ceramic vessel excavated by Erwin Dieseldorff at the site of Chama, Guatemala, as the camazotz, or death bat, from the K'iche' Maya myth, the Popol Vuh. The attribution was never critically reviewed. Nevertheless, it became so deeply entrenched that virtually every image of a Maya bat is identified as a camazotz. We have located no ancient depictions of the Hero …