Images from the Underworld

'Describes the cave site of Naj Tunich in the southeastern Pet歋n region of Guatemala. Includes an analysis of the cave painting style and iconography and (with Barbara MacLeod) of the hieroglyphic texts that accompany some of them. A survey of cave paintings from other parts of the Maya world and elsewhere in Mesoamerica provides a broad comparative context'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/