Ancient Maya
Author: Arthur Demarest
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-12-09
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780521533904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ancient Maya comes to life in this new holistic and theoretical study.
Author: Arthur Demarest
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-12-09
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780521533904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ancient Maya comes to life in this new holistic and theoretical study.
Author: Ronald Wright
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780802137289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Maya created one of the world's most brilliant civilizations, famous for its art, astronomy, and deep fascination with the mystery of time. Despite collapse in the ninth century, Spanish invasion in the sixteenth, and civil war in the twentieth, eight million people in Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico speak Mayan languages and maintain their resilient culture to this day. Traveling through Central America's jungles and mountains, Ronald Wright explores the ancient roots of the Maya, their recent troubles, and prospects for survival. Embracing history, anthropology, politics, and literature, Time Among the Maya is a riveting journey through past magnificence and the study of an enduring civilization with much to teach the present. "Wright's unpretentious narrative blends anthropology, archaeology, history, and politics with his own entertaining excursions and encounters." -- The New Yorker; "Time Among the Maya shows Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures." -- Jan Morris, The Independent (London).
Author: Lewis Spence
Publisher: New York : AMS Press
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Matthew Restall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-09-21
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0190645032
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations. They mastered the visual arts, and developed a sophisticated writing system that recorded extraordinary knowledge in calendrics, mathematics, and astronomy. The Maya achieved all this without area-wide centralized control. There was never a single, unified Maya state or empire, but always numerous, evolving ethnic groups speaking dozens of distinct Mayan languages. The people we call "Maya" never thought of themselves as such; yet something definable, unique, and endlessly fascinating - what we call Maya culture - has clearly existed for millennia. So what was their self-identity and how did Maya civilization come to be "invented?" With the Maya historically subdivided and misunderstood in so many ways, the pursuit of what made them "the Maya" is all the more important. In this Very Short Introduction, Restall and Solari explore the themes of Maya identity, city-state political culture, art and architecture, the Maya concept of the cosmos, and the Maya experience of contact with including invasion by outsiders. Despite its brevity, this book is unique for its treatment of all periods of Maya civilization, from its origins to the present.
Author: Gene S. Stuart
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Splendid color photos overshadow the text. No references. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Simon Martin
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Published: 2008-03-25
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The ideal reference on Maya archaeology."--Science News
Author: Elizabeth Mann
Publisher: Mikaya Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 193141405X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the Maya Indians in the city of Tikal, founded in 800 B.C.
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780888999214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mayan civilization once flourished in what is today Guatemala and the Yucatan. The Mayan sacred book the Popol Vuh tells of the creation of the universe, the world of gods and demi-gods and the creation of mankind.
Author: Jackie Maloy
Publisher: C. Press/F. Watts Trade
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780531241103
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides information about the ancient Maya, discussing farming, daily life, beliefs, and other related topics.
Author: David Stuart
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Published: 2008-11-18
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Two leading Maya scholars tell this story of the rediscovery of the queen of Maya cities--Palenque--deep in the forest-clad mountains of southeastern Mexico. 150 illustrations.