The House of the Governor: A Maya Palace of Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico (Civilization of the American Indian Series)

xx, 298 pp. "Rich in detail, the architectural history examines origins and precedents for the plan and massing of the structures, discussing free-standing block design and elongated, multiroomed form. Among the 199 illustrations are photographs, diagrams, and drawings showing the mosaic facades, recessed doorways, molding patterns, and proportions and measurements of the buildings at Uxmal, among them the House of the Governor itself, Nunnery Quadrangle, Ball Court, Pyramid of the Magician, and several temples. In this comprehensive synthesis of cultural history in northern Yucatan during the ninth and tenth centuries, the author brings together research from the several disparate fields of archaeology, epigraphy, ethnography, formal analysis, and iconography."