When thought overwhelms the mind, the mind puts it into the world, notably in diagrams and gestures.Both use space and arrays of elements, depictive and non-depictive, to convey ideas, concrete and abstract,clear and sketchy. The arrays and the non-depictive elements like boxes and arrows serve to showrelationships and organizations, thematic, categorical, and more. on paper, in the air, in the diagrammedworld. Human actions organize space to convey abstractions: spraction.

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OF THESIS Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Arts, Art History Department of Art & Art History The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico

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The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings is a readable overview of ancient Maya civilization that maintains the inherent historicity of human culture. The book is a reasonable summary of archaeological, anthropological, and hieroglyphic data, and, as a summary, is necessarily superficial in most aspects and unbalanced in others. Readers searching for a more substantial recounting of the ancient Maya may prefer the books by Robert Sharer or Linda Scheie and her coauthors David Freidel and Peter Mathews. For those interested in history as told by the ancient Maya, balanced by modern archaeological data, and illustrated with excellent images and innovative charts and architectural reconstructions, Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens by Martin and Grube should be the reader's choice.

Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztec and Mixtec. Elizabeth H. Boone. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1999. xvi + 296 pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth).

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Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztec and Mixtec. Elizabeth H. Boone. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1999. xvi + 296 pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth).