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Altar Q at Copan, Honduras
Altar Q at Copan, Honduras

Brief Bibliography of Copán

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Andrews, E. Wyllys and William L. Fash (eds.) 2005. Copan: The History of a Maya Kingdom. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.

Bell, Ellen E. 2003. Understanding Early Classic Copan. University Museum Publications, New York.

Braswell, Geoffrey E. 1992 Obsidian-hydration dating, the Coner phase, and revisionist chronology at Copan, Honduras. Latin American Antiquity 3:130-147.

Chincilla Mazariegos, Oswaldo 1998 Archaeology and nationalism in Guatemala at the time of independence. Antiquity 72:376-386.

Clark, Sharri, et al. 1997 Museums and Indigenous Cultures: The power of local knowledge. Cultural Survival Quarterly Spring 36-51.

Fash, William L. and Barbara W. Fash. 1993 Scribes, Warriors, and Kings: The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya. Thames and Hudson, London.

Manahan, T. K. 2004 The Way Things Fall Apart: Social organization and the Classic Maya collapse of Copan. Ancient Mesoamerica 15:107-126.

Morley, Sylvanus. 1999. Inscriptions at Copan. Martino Press.

Newsome, Elizabeth A. 2001. Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stelae Cycle of "18-Rabbit-God K," King of Copan. University of Texas Press, Austin.

Webster, David 1999 The archaeology of Copan, Honduras. Journal of Archaeological Research 7(1):1-53.

Webster, David 2001 Copan (Copan, Honduras). Pages 169-176 in Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America. Garland Publishing, New York.

Webster, David L. 2000. Copan: The Rise and Fall of a Classic Maya Kingdom.

Webster, David, AnnCorinne Freter, and David Rue 1993 The obsidian hydration dating project at Copan: A regional approach and why it works. Latin American Antiquity 4:303-324.

Rulers of Copan

Ruler Date Reigned
K'inich Yax K'uk Mo' ca AD 426-436
Unknown mid-5th century AD
Mat Head ca 445-485
Cu Ix ca 485-495
Unknown end of 5th century
Unknown end of 5th century
Waterlily Jaguar first half of 6th century
Unknown mid-sixth century
Unknown mid-sixth century
Moon Jaguar 553-578
Butz' Chan 578-828
Smoke Imix God K 628-695
18 Rabbit 685-738
Smoke Monkey 738-749
Smoke Shell 749-763
Yax Pasa 763-820
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