Don S Rice
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don S Rice |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don S |
| FAMILY NAME | Rice |
| SIGNATURE | RICE D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 284 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Late Postclassic Lowland Maya politico-ritual architecture: Temple assemblages and Zacpeten
Late Postclassic lowland Maya civic-ceremonial masonry architecture appears in two main configurations—temple assemblages and basic ceremonial groups—first identified at Mayapan. Around the Peten lakes, these two architectural complexes have been tied to northern immigrant Kowojs and Itzas, respectively, and their distributions map the varying control over the lakes by these two ethnopolities. Temple assemblages exhibit considerable variation in …
The Final Frontier of the Maya: Central Petén, Guatemala, 1450–1700 CE
Zacpeten Structure 719: Activities at a Contact Periodpopol Nahbefore Rapid Abandonment
This paper addresses activities carried out in a late-sixteenth or seventeenth century Maya council house (popol nah) just before its abandonment. Structure 719 at the site of Zacpeten in the central Peten lakes district is considered a noble residence remodeled into a council house with an adjacent temple. Excavations revealed quantities of de facto refuse inside the structure's two rooms and around the exterior; recent studies focused on cerami…
Classic-to-Contact-Period Continuities in Maya Governance in Central Petén, Guatemala
This article integrates ethnohistorical and archaeological data in examining political continuities or structural equivalencies in the lakes region of central Petén (southern Maya lowlands) between the Late and Terminal Classic periods and the Postclassic and Spanish Contact periods. The equivalencies are of three kinds: "deep structures" (quadripartition), common political expediencies and functions (power-sharing and council houses), and tempor…
A Chak'an Itza Center at Nixtun-Ch'ich’, Petén, Guatemala
Recent excavations conducted by Proyecto Itza investigated a Late Postclassic (a.d. 1400–1525) community at Nixtun-Ch'ich’, Petén, Guatemala. This community was likely occupied by a faction of Itza Mayas called the Chak'an Itzas. Recent work focused on the community's civic-ceremonial architecture and nearby residences. The former was dominated by two colonnaded halls standing abreast. These buildings, believed to have been popol najoob (council …
The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, And Transformation
Imagining the Maya: Sources and Scholarship
Precolumbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands
Regional Perspectives on the Olmec . Robert J. Sharer and David C. Grove
Pre-Columbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands
This is a collection of chapters by various authors on aspects of the demography of the Maya in Central America. It is the product of a session organized at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver Colorado in 1985. The focus is on quantitative data and the methods that can be applied to their analysis. Most of the contributions attempt to estimate the size of the Mayan lowland population before the Spanish conque…
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonisms. Raymond B. Hame . and William T. Vickers
Maya subsistence, studies in memory of Dennis E. Puleston
Muralla de Leon: A Lowland Maya Fortification
Muralla de Leon is a dry stone wall construction on an elevated plateau NE of Lake Macanche, in the central portion of the Department of Peten, Guatemala. Surrounded by water on three sides, the wall attains a maximum height of 4 m. and has a perimeter of 1.4 km. Twenty-one structures are located inside the wall, their construction spanning the Terminal Preclassic through the Postclassic periods. Most interesting are quantities of Floral Park Pro…
The Location of Tayasal: A Reconsideration in Light of Peten Maya Ethnohistory and Archaeology
An earlier article in this journal suggested that Tayasal, the island capital of the late Postclassic and historic period Itza Maya, was located at Topoxte on Lake Yaxha in the Department of Peten, Guatemala. Study of ethnohistorical sources for the Peten Itza and their neighbors leads us to conclude, however, that Tayasal was in fact in Lake Peten Itza, the location long favored by earlier writers. These sources are reviewed here, and Tayasal is…
The Northeast Petén Revisited
The role of environmental versus sociopolitical factors in establishing the characteristics of Maya settlement in Petén, Guatemala, has been debated, but evaluations have been hampered by a lack of diachronic data. Archaeological surveys and excavation conducted within a larger historical ecology project focused on the twin lake basins of Yaxhá and Sacnab, in northeast Petén, have provided a diachronic perspective on the settlement debate. In thi…
Mayan Urbanism: Impact on a Tropical Karst Environment
From the first millennium B.C. through the 9th-century A.D. Classic Maya collapse, nonurban populations grew exponentially, doubling every 408 years, in the twin-lake (Yaxha-Sacnab) basin that contained the Classic urban center of Yaxha. Pollen data show that forests were essentially cleared by Early Classic time. Sharply accelerated slopewash and colluviation, amplified in the Yaxha subbasin by urban construction, transferred nutrients plus calc…
Middle Preclassic Maya Settlement in the Central Maya Lowlands
Recent archaeological settlement surveys around Lakes Yaxha and Sacnab in the El Peten district of Guatemala have provided new data on the nature of Middle Preclassic (1000-300 B.C.) Maya populations in the Central Peten. Locations of apparent domestic and civic activities have been determined and the settlement configuration and architectural remains identified for the period suggest certain institutional characteristics of the earliest inhabita…
Lars-Ivar Ringbom: Paradisus terrestris: myt, bild och verklighet. (Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae, Nova Series, C, 1, No. 1.) 446pp. Helsingfors: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1958. Fmk. 4000
Lars-Ivar Ringbom: Paradisus terrestris: myt, bild och verklighet. (Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae, Nova Series, C, 1, No. 1.) 446pp. Helsingfors: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1958. Fmk. 4000. - Volume 23 Issue 2
The Oldest Illustrated Arabic Manuscript
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Early Signed Islamic Glass
The not inconsiderable quantity of fine Islamic glass surviving to-day includes very few signed pieces. A list of those bearing the names of their makers has recently been published by Prof. L. A. Mayer, who called for additional information, his researches having produced only eight master-signatures. The last two of these do not concern us here; (i) 'Alī ibn Muḥammad ar-Ramakī (or Zamakī) signed two lamps for a Mamlūk mosque founded in 730/1330…
Studies in Islamic Metal Work-VI
Thepurpose of these 'SIMW', as also of some papers which have appeared under different titles in thisBulletinand elsewhere, is to clear the ground for the preparation of aHandbook of early Islamic metal work. My aim is to broaden the basis on which the writing of such a handbook (covering the period from the rise of Islam to the end of the fourteenth century) can be attempted, by submitting unpublished and significant material in the form of brie…
A Drawing of the Fatimid Period
Under the patronage of the enlightened Fatimid caliphs (A.D. 969-1171) there flourished in Egypt a vigorous and refined art. The sumptuous palaces with which they had adorned their capital Cairo have vanished without trace, but the remains of their religious architecture, the magnificent gateways of Cairo's Fatimid wall (which have escaped destruction), together with the enthusiastic descriptions of contemporary travellers enable us to imagine th…
Two Unusual Mamluk Metal Works
The Museo Civico of Turin possesses an Islamic metal vessel which, so far as I am aware, has not been published but which deserves attention on more than one count. This is a small silver-inlaid bowl (Inv. No. 159) (pis. I-VI, fig. 1). Its circular base measures only 11.1 cm. in diameter, its height 8.3 cm., and its upper aperture 16.5 cm. The walls of the vessel, projecting sharply at about half its height, give it a squat and somewhat unstable …
Studies In Islamic Metal Work—V
The middle of the 14th century offers a convenient dividing-line in the study of Islamic metal work. Few distinguished works were produced after that date and practically no new motifs were added to the artists' repertoire. In a passage of his Topography of Cairo , Maqrizi exposes the decadence of inlaid metal work in the latter half of the 14th century and explains some of the reasons which led to it. In view of the importance of this contempora…
A Muslim Shrine At Ḥarrān
THE traveller who approaches Harrān from Urfa passes near an isolated domed building known to the local inhabitants as the shrine of Shaikh Hayāt (ziyārat shaikh hayāt). It stands just outside the city, near the southwest corner of the perimeter-wall1 and is surrounded by some modern tombs (PI. I)2
Pre-Columbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands
This is a collection of chapters by various authors on aspects of the demography of the Maya in Central America. It is the product of a session organized at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver Colorado in 1985. The focus is on quantitative data and the methods that can be applied to their analysis. Most of the contributions attempt to estimate the size of the Mayan lowland population before the Spanish conque…
The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, And Transformation
The Northeast Petén Revisited
The role of environmental versus sociopolitical factors in establishing the characteristics of Maya settlement in Petén, Guatemala, has been debated, but evaluations have been hampered by a lack of diachronic data. Archaeological surveys and excavation conducted within a larger historical ecology project focused on the twin lake basins of Yaxhá and Sacnab, in northeast Petén, have provided a diachronic perspective on the settlement debate. In thi…
A Chak'an Itza Center at Nixtun-Ch'ich’, Petén, Guatemala
Recent excavations conducted by Proyecto Itza investigated a Late Postclassic (a.d. 1400–1525) community at Nixtun-Ch'ich’, Petén, Guatemala. This community was likely occupied by a faction of Itza Mayas called the Chak'an Itzas. Recent work focused on the community's civic-ceremonial architecture and nearby residences. The former was dominated by two colonnaded halls standing abreast. These buildings, believed to have been popol najoob (council …
Classic-to-Contact-Period Continuities in Maya Governance in Central Petén, Guatemala
This article integrates ethnohistorical and archaeological data in examining political continuities or structural equivalencies in the lakes region of central Petén (southern Maya lowlands) between the Late and Terminal Classic periods and the Postclassic and Spanish Contact periods. The equivalencies are of three kinds: "deep structures" (quadripartition), common political expediencies and functions (power-sharing and council houses), and tempor…
Muralla de Leon: A Lowland Maya Fortification
Muralla de Leon is a dry stone wall construction on an elevated plateau NE of Lake Macanche, in the central portion of the Department of Peten, Guatemala. Surrounded by water on three sides, the wall attains a maximum height of 4 m. and has a perimeter of 1.4 km. Twenty-one structures are located inside the wall, their construction spanning the Terminal Preclassic through the Postclassic periods. Most interesting are quantities of Floral Park Pro…
The Location of Tayasal: A Reconsideration in Light of Peten Maya Ethnohistory and Archaeology
An earlier article in this journal suggested that Tayasal, the island capital of the late Postclassic and historic period Itza Maya, was located at Topoxte on Lake Yaxha in the Department of Peten, Guatemala. Study of ethnohistorical sources for the Peten Itza and their neighbors leads us to conclude, however, that Tayasal was in fact in Lake Peten Itza, the location long favored by earlier writers. These sources are reviewed here, and Tayasal is…
Middle Preclassic Maya Settlement in the Central Maya Lowlands
Recent archaeological settlement surveys around Lakes Yaxha and Sacnab in the El Peten district of Guatemala have provided new data on the nature of Middle Preclassic (1000-300 B.C.) Maya populations in the Central Peten. Locations of apparent domestic and civic activities have been determined and the settlement configuration and architectural remains identified for the period suggest certain institutional characteristics of the earliest inhabita…
Zacpeten Structure 719: Activities at a Contact Periodpopol Nahbefore Rapid Abandonment
This paper addresses activities carried out in a late-sixteenth or seventeenth century Maya council house (popol nah) just before its abandonment. Structure 719 at the site of Zacpeten in the central Peten lakes district is considered a noble residence remodeled into a council house with an adjacent temple. Excavations revealed quantities of de facto refuse inside the structure's two rooms and around the exterior; recent studies focused on cerami…
Medieval Ḥarrān: Studies on its Topography and Monuments, I
No attempt has been made yet to collect the widely scattered information on the history and topography of Ḥarrān for the period from the Arab conquest in A.D. 639 until the destruction of the city by the Mongols in A.D. 1260. Such a compilation would form a useful sequel to the monograph of Adam Mez, which covers the period up to the Arab conquest and to Chwolsohn's work on the Sabians which, despite its venerable age, remains the standard work o…
Late Postclassic Lowland Maya politico-ritual architecture: Temple assemblages and Zacpeten
Late Postclassic lowland Maya civic-ceremonial masonry architecture appears in two main configurations—temple assemblages and basic ceremonial groups—first identified at Mayapan. Around the Peten lakes, these two architectural complexes have been tied to northern immigrant Kowojs and Itzas, respectively, and their distributions map the varying control over the lakes by these two ethnopolities. Temple assemblages exhibit considerable variation in …
Maya subsistence, studies in memory of Dennis E. Puleston
A Muslim Shrine At Ḥarrān
THE traveller who approaches Harrān from Urfa passes near an isolated domed building known to the local inhabitants as the shrine of Shaikh Hayāt (ziyārat shaikh hayāt). It stands just outside the city, near the southwest corner of the perimeter-wall1 and is surrounded by some modern tombs (PI. I)2
Studies in Islamic Metal Work-III
The Türk ve Islam Müzesi in Istanbul possesses a hitherto unpublished ewer (Inv. No. 217) signed by a Mawṣilī artist (Pl. I). This is an unpretentious vessel, made of beaten brass and sparingly decorated with inlaid designs. It stands 37 cm. high without the lid (which is a later addition) and measures 20 cm. in its widest diameter
"The Blazons of the "Baptistere de Saint Louis
The inlaid bronze basin in the Musée du Louvre known as the " Baptistère de St. Louis " is generally recognized as a masterpiece of Islamic metalwork. So far, published photographs and drawings have failed to do it justice. Almost the whole surface of the vessel, both outside and inside, is engraved with court-scenes, battles and hunting expeditions set out in harmoniously composed panels and medallions, framed by narrower friezes of beasts of th…
The Brasses of Badr al-Dīn Lu'lu
Only one Islamic metal vessel can be said with certainty to have been made at Mosul. This is the so-called Blacas Ewer in the British Museum which bears an Arabic inscription stating that it was engraved byujā' b. Man'a al-Mawṣilīat Mosulin the month of Rajab 629 (= May 1232
"The Blazons of the "Baptistere de Saint Louis
The inlaid bronze basin in the Musée du Louvre known as the " Baptistère de St. Louis " is generally recognized as a masterpiece of Islamic metalwork. So far, published photographs and drawings have failed to do it justice. Almost the whole surface of the vessel, both outside and inside, is engraved with court-scenes, battles and hunting expeditions set out in harmoniously composed panels and medallions, framed by narrower friezes of beasts of th…
The Brasses of Badr al-Dīn Lu'lu
Only one Islamic metal vessel can be said with certainty to have been made at Mosul. This is the so-called Blacas Ewer in the British Museum which bears an Arabic inscription stating that it was engraved byujā' b. Man'a al-Mawṣilīat Mosulin the month of Rajab 629 (= May 1232
A Miniature in an Autoǵraph of Shihāb al-dīn Ibn Fadlallāh al-'Umari
Mr. A. Chester Beatty has recently acquired a shigle leaf which comes from a fourteen-century MS. and is interesting in more than one respect. I am greatly indebted to him for permission to give an account of it here.This isolated folio, measuring 13 × 18 cm. (Pis. 22-3), slightly damaged and torn at the edges, is the last leaf of a work entitled " ThexTear of the Weeper" (Dam'at al-bākī). This information is supplied by the colophon, which also …
Medieval Ḥarrān: Studies on its Topography and Monuments, I
No attempt has been made yet to collect the widely scattered information on the history and topography of Ḥarrān for the period from the Arab conquest in A.D. 639 until the destruction of the city by the Mongols in A.D. 1260. Such a compilation would form a useful sequel to the monograph of Adam Mez, which covers the period up to the Arab conquest and to Chwolsohn's work on the Sabians which, despite its venerable age, remains the standard work o…
Studies in Islamic Metal Work-III
The Türk ve Islam Müzesi in Istanbul possesses a hitherto unpublished ewer (Inv. No. 217) signed by a Mawṣilī artist (Pl. I). This is an unpretentious vessel, made of beaten brass and sparingly decorated with inlaid designs. It stands 37 cm. high without the lid (which is a later addition) and measures 20 cm. in its widest diameter
Studies in Islamic Metal Work-IV
A Cylindrical brass box then belonging to the collection of Mme Delort de Gléon (and now in the Louvre, Inv. No. 7438) was shown at the Exhibition of Muslim Art held in Paris in 1903. It was briefly described in the catalogue and the Arabic inscriptions which decorate it were published by M. Sobernheim. But, to the best of my knowledge, no illustrations of this box have so far been reproduced
Studies In Islamic Metal Work—V
The middle of the 14th century offers a convenient dividing-line in the study of Islamic metal work. Few distinguished works were produced after that date and practically no new motifs were added to the artists' repertoire. In a passage of his Topography of Cairo , Maqrizi exposes the decadence of inlaid metal work in the latter half of the 14th century and explains some of the reasons which led to it. In view of the importance of this contempora…
A Muslim Shrine At Ḥarrān
THE traveller who approaches Harrān from Urfa passes near an isolated domed building known to the local inhabitants as the shrine of Shaikh Hayāt (ziyārat shaikh hayāt). It stands just outside the city, near the southwest corner of the perimeter-wall1 and is surrounded by some modern tombs (PI. I)2
Two Unusual Mamluk Metal Works
The Museo Civico of Turin possesses an Islamic metal vessel which, so far as I am aware, has not been published but which deserves attention on more than one count. This is a small silver-inlaid bowl (Inv. No. 159) (pis. I-VI, fig. 1). Its circular base measures only 11.1 cm. in diameter, its height 8.3 cm., and its upper aperture 16.5 cm. The walls of the vessel, projecting sharply at about half its height, give it a squat and somewhat unstable …
Early Signed Islamic Glass
The not inconsiderable quantity of fine Islamic glass surviving to-day includes very few signed pieces. A list of those bearing the names of their makers has recently been published by Prof. L. A. Mayer, who called for additional information, his researches having produced only eight master-signatures. The last two of these do not concern us here; (i) 'Alī ibn Muḥammad ar-Ramakī (or Zamakī) signed two lamps for a Mamlūk mosque founded in 730/1330…
Studies in Islamic Metal Work-VI
Thepurpose of these 'SIMW', as also of some papers which have appeared under different titles in thisBulletinand elsewhere, is to clear the ground for the preparation of aHandbook of early Islamic metal work. My aim is to broaden the basis on which the writing of such a handbook (covering the period from the rise of Islam to the end of the fourteenth century) can be attempted, by submitting unpublished and significant material in the form of brie…
A Drawing of the Fatimid Period
Under the patronage of the enlightened Fatimid caliphs (A.D. 969-1171) there flourished in Egypt a vigorous and refined art. The sumptuous palaces with which they had adorned their capital Cairo have vanished without trace, but the remains of their religious architecture, the magnificent gateways of Cairo's Fatimid wall (which have escaped destruction), together with the enthusiastic descriptions of contemporary travellers enable us to imagine th…
The Oldest Illustrated Arabic Manuscript
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
Lars-Ivar Ringbom: Paradisus terrestris: myt, bild och verklighet. (Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae, Nova Series, C, 1, No. 1.) 446pp. Helsingfors: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1958. Fmk. 4000
Lars-Ivar Ringbom: Paradisus terrestris: myt, bild och verklighet. (Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae, Nova Series, C, 1, No. 1.) 446pp. Helsingfors: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1958. Fmk. 4000. - Volume 23 Issue 2
Middle Preclassic Maya Settlement in the Central Maya Lowlands
Recent archaeological settlement surveys around Lakes Yaxha and Sacnab in the El Peten district of Guatemala have provided new data on the nature of Middle Preclassic (1000-300 B.C.) Maya populations in the Central Peten. Locations of apparent domestic and civic activities have been determined and the settlement configuration and architectural remains identified for the period suggest certain institutional characteristics of the earliest inhabita…
Mayan Urbanism: Impact on a Tropical Karst Environment
From the first millennium B.C. through the 9th-century A.D. Classic Maya collapse, nonurban populations grew exponentially, doubling every 408 years, in the twin-lake (Yaxha-Sacnab) basin that contained the Classic urban center of Yaxha. Pollen data show that forests were essentially cleared by Early Classic time. Sharply accelerated slopewash and colluviation, amplified in the Yaxha subbasin by urban construction, transferred nutrients plus calc…
The Northeast Petén Revisited
The role of environmental versus sociopolitical factors in establishing the characteristics of Maya settlement in Petén, Guatemala, has been debated, but evaluations have been hampered by a lack of diachronic data. Archaeological surveys and excavation conducted within a larger historical ecology project focused on the twin lake basins of Yaxhá and Sacnab, in northeast Petén, have provided a diachronic perspective on the settlement debate. In thi…
Muralla de Leon: A Lowland Maya Fortification
Muralla de Leon is a dry stone wall construction on an elevated plateau NE of Lake Macanche, in the central portion of the Department of Peten, Guatemala. Surrounded by water on three sides, the wall attains a maximum height of 4 m. and has a perimeter of 1.4 km. Twenty-one structures are located inside the wall, their construction spanning the Terminal Preclassic through the Postclassic periods. Most interesting are quantities of Floral Park Pro…
The Location of Tayasal: A Reconsideration in Light of Peten Maya Ethnohistory and Archaeology
An earlier article in this journal suggested that Tayasal, the island capital of the late Postclassic and historic period Itza Maya, was located at Topoxte on Lake Yaxha in the Department of Peten, Guatemala. Study of ethnohistorical sources for the Peten Itza and their neighbors leads us to conclude, however, that Tayasal was in fact in Lake Peten Itza, the location long favored by earlier writers. These sources are reviewed here, and Tayasal is…
Maya subsistence, studies in memory of Dennis E. Puleston
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonisms. Raymond B. Hame . and William T. Vickers
Regional Perspectives on the Olmec . Robert J. Sharer and David C. Grove
Pre-Columbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands
This is a collection of chapters by various authors on aspects of the demography of the Maya in Central America. It is the product of a session organized at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver Colorado in 1985. The focus is on quantitative data and the methods that can be applied to their analysis. Most of the contributions attempt to estimate the size of the Mayan lowland population before the Spanish conque…
Precolumbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands
Imagining the Maya: Sources and Scholarship
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