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| Preface | |
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| Chronological Table | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The setting | |
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| Natural resources | |
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| Areas | |
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| Periods | |
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| Peoples and languages | |
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| Climate change and its cultural impact | |
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| The Earliest Maya | |
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| Early hunters | |
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| Archaic collectors and cultivators | |
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| Early Preclassic villages | |
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| The Middle Preclassic expansion | |
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| Preclassic Kaminaljuyu | |
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| The Maya lowlands | |
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| The Rise of Maya Civilization | |
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| The birth of the calendar | |
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| The Hero Twins and the Creation of the World (box) | |
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| Izapa and the Pacific Coast | |
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| Kaminaljuyu and the Maya highlands | |
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| The Peten and the Maya lowlands | |
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| The Mirador Basin | |
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| San Bartolo | |
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| From Preclassic to Classic in the Maya lowlands | |
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| Classic Splendor: the Early Period | |
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| Teotihuacan: military giant | |
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| The Esperanza culture | |
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| Cer�n: a New World Pompeii? | |
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| Tzakol culture in the Central Area | |
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| Copan in the Early Classic | |
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| The Northern Area | |
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| Classic Splendor: the Late Period | |
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| Classic sites in the Central Area | |
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| Copan and Quirigua | |
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| Tikal | |
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| Calakmul | |
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| Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras, and Bonampak | |
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| The Petexbatun | |
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| Palenque | |
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| Comalcalco and Tonina | |
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| Classic sites in the Northern Area: R�o Bec, Chenes, and Coba | |
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| Art of the Late Classic | |
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| The Terminal Classic | |
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| The Great Collapse | |
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| Ceibal and the Putun Maya | |
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| Puuk sites in the Northern Area | |
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| The Terminal Classic at Chichen Itza | |
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| Ek' Bahlam | |
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| The Cotzumalhuapa problem | |
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| The end of an era | |
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| The Post-Classic | |
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| The Toltec invasion and Chichen Itza | |
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| The Itza and the city of Mayapan | |
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| The independent states of Yucatan | |
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| The Central Area in the Post-Classic | |
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| Maya-Mexican dynasties in the Southern Area | |
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| The Spanish Conquest | |
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| Maya Life on the Eve of the Conquest | |
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| The farm and the chase | |
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| Industry and commerce | |
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| The life cycle | |
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| Society and politics | |
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| Maya Thought and Culture | |
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| The universe and the gods | |
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| The earth and the gods | |
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| The Classic Maya Underworld | |
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| Rites and ritual practitioners | |
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| Numbers and the calendar | |
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| The sun and the moon | |
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| The celestial wanderers and the stars | |
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| The nature of Maya writing | |
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| History graven in stone | |
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| Maya superstates | |
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| History and the supernatural | |
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| Name-tagging | |
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| Spiritual alter-egos | |
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| The Enduring Maya | |
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| The new Spanish order | |
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| The highland Maya, yesterday and today | |
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| The Tzotzil Maya of Zinacantan | |
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| The Yucatec Maya | |
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| The War of the Castes | |
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| The Maya of Chan K'om | |
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| The Lakandon | |
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| Uprising in Chiapas | |
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| The great terror | |
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| The Maya future | |
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| Visiting the Maya Area | |
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| Dynastic Rulers of Classic Maya Cities | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Sources of Illustrations | |
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| Index | |