This examination of daily life in ancient Maya civilization presents the very latest discoveries and interpretations and corrects popular misconceptions. Based on the results of recent research from a variety...
Relevant topics discussed in this edition include the rise of the Mayans, the lives of the nobility and commoners during the classical period, achievements in science, engineering, and writing, the spirit realm and cosmology, and elements ...
Jones , Grant D. 1989. Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule : Time and History on a Colonial Frontier . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press . 1992. The Last Maya Confederacy . Natural History . 1998. The Conquest of the Last Maya ...
Making sense of our universe.
Students will explore a typical day for a wealthy Mayan citizen in easy-to-follow language and find out what life was like for women and children in this descriptive volume.
Elizabeth Scholl. Mathematics, Time, and Astronomy The calendars measured days, lunar cycles, solar cycles, seasons, and eclipses, as well as the movement of the planets Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter. Both past and future dates were ...
Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington D.C. Morrison, Bethany A. 2006. ... Nash, Michael. 1986. A Functional Analysis of Two Lithic Tool Collections from Colha, Belize. Unpublished M.A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, ...
This book discusses the most recent advances in our knowledge of the Preclassic Maya and the emergence of their rainforest civilization, with new data on settlement, political organization, architecture, iconography and epigraphy supporting ...
Mayan expert Heather McKillop shows our current understanding of the Maya, explaining how interpretations of "dirt archaeology," hieroglyphic inscriptions, and pictorial pottery are used to reconstruct the lives of royalty, artisans, ...
Definitively tracing the evolution of the Maya civilization from the arrival of migrating 'first peoples' to the end of the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican World with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century AD. A span of some thousands of years ...