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  • The Aberdeen Celt: an early twentieth-century Olmec find

  • Norman Hammond, Karl Taube
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 93 / Issue 368 / April 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 April 2019, pp. 488-501
    Print publication:
    April 2019

  • The distinctive character of Olmec art and culture within the wider Mesoamerican tradition was only fully recognised in the twentieth century. The authenticity and significance of several aspects of Olmec workmanship and imagery, however, remain the subject of debate. Here, the authors report on an incised stone celt (axe) from southern Mexico, which bears imagery relating it to the Middle Preclassic Olmec of the earlier first millennium BC. The image is interpreted as a Mesoamerican maize deity grasping a corn ear fetish. Originally discovered in 1910, its early date makes the object valuable for confirming debated aspects of Olmec art and culture.

Medieval St Andrews
  • Church, Cult, City
  • With contributions by Catherine Smith , David Ditchburn , Derek Hall , Elizabeth Ewan , Elizabeth Rhodes , Ian Campbell , Julian Luxford , Matthew Hammond , Michael H. Brown , Norman Reid , Richard Fawcett , Roger A. Mason , Simon Taylor , Tom Turpie and Katie Stevenson
  • Edited by Katie Stevenson, Michael Brown
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    28 April 2017
    Print publication:
    17 February 2017
  • St Andrews was of tremendous significance in medieval Scotland. Its importance remains readily apparent in the buildings which cluster the rocky promontory jutting out into the North Sea: the towers and walls of cathedral, castle and university provide reminders of the status and wealth of the city in the Middle Ages. As a centre of earthly and spiritual government, as the place of veneration forScotland's patron saint and as an ancient seat of learning, St Andrews was the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland.
    This volume provides the first full study of this special and multi-faceted centre throughout its golden age. The fourteen chapters use St Andrews as a focus for the discussion of multiple aspects of medieval life in Scotland. They examine church, spirituality, urban society andlearning in a specific context from the seventh to the sixteenth century, allowing for the consideration of St Andrews alongside other great religious and political centres of medieval Europe.

    Michael Brown is Professor of Medieval Scottish History, University of St Andrews; Katie Stevenson is Keeper of Scottish History and Archaeology, National Museums Scotland and Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval History, University of St Andrews.

    Contributors: Michael Brown, Ian Campbell, David Ditchburn, Elizabeth Ewan, Richard Fawcett, Derek Hall, Matthew Hammond, Julian Luxford, Roger Mason, Norman Reid, Bess Rhodes, Catherine Smith, Katie Stevenson, Simon Taylor, Tom Turpie.

  • Boxing Day: a Maya polychrome pot from southern Belize

  • Norman Hammond
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 91 / Issue 355 / February 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 January 2017, e6
    Print publication:
    February 2017
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  • The notion of ancient Maya ritual combat, beyond the well-known rubber-ball game played across Mesoamerica, was proposed 40 years ago on the basis of a polychrome vase from southern Belize and a series of Late Classic (AD 700–850) pottery figurines depicting similarly accoutred individuals, found at the site of Lubaantun (Hammond 1976: figs 4–6).

  • Maya: revelation and re-evaluation

  • Norman Hammond
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 89 / Issue 348 / December 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 December 2015, pp. 1503-1510
    Print publication:
    December 2015

  • Maya archaeology is flourishing; across three millennia, four countries and an impressive range of intellectual and practical approaches, the eight books under review here make that point well. One is the ninth edition of a deservedly successful book for a general readership, one the catalogue of the first Maya exhibition to be held in Britain in nearly half a century. A further volume deals with sites in the northern Maya lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula, another with those in the eastern lowlands, the former British colony of Belize. Two are site-specific: the major city of El Perú-Waka’ in the southern lowland Maya heartland of El Petén, Guatemala, and the idiosyncratic élite centre of Cacaxtla in central highland Mexico where Maya influence on the famous murals is both striking and puzzling. Finally, two have a scientific bent: collections of papers on bioarchaeology/population studies and archaeoastronomy respectively. All draw their evidence, and their illustrations, largely from the Classic Period (AD 250–900), although there are forays into both the Preclassic (1200 BC–AD 250) and Postclassic (AD 900–1500+).

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