Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World

Name: Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World
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ISBN: 9780195183634

ISBN-10: 0195183630

ISBN-13: 9780195183634

Edition: 2005

Authors: Lynn V. Foster, Peter Mathews

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The ancient Mayan civilization of southern Mexico and northern Central America has long been described as "mysterious," even though scholars have been studying this culture for hundreds of years. Our view of the Maya has changed dramatically based on the various findings of these scholars; what were once thought of as "vacant ceremonial centers," inhabited by only a few calendar priests and used as places of ritual by the surrounding peasant farmers, have now been redefined as ancient thriving cities of thousands of Maya. Hierogliphic inscriptions, once thought to be astrological mumbo-jumbo, now read as names of historical individuals and the cities they ruled. The Handbook to Life in the…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/7/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 9.21" wide x 7.28" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Foreword




Maya civilization and archaeology



Evolution of Maya civilization



Geography of the pre-Columbian Maya



Society and government



Warfare



Religion, cosmology, and art




Funerary beliefs and customs



Architecture and building



Arithmetic, astronomy, and the calendar




Written evidence




Economy, industry, and trade



Daily life