Life Among the Maya
Author: Chris Eboch
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781590181621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the history, social life, customs, and future of the Mayan people.
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Author: Chris Eboch
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781590181621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the history, social life, customs, and future of the Mayan people.
Author: Ronald Wright
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780802137289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Robert J. Sharer
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1996-09-09
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK. For ease of use by students, the work is organized into chapters covering all aspects of Maya life and civilization: the foundations of Maya life and civilization; early, middle, and late Maya civilization; economy (food production and trade); social and political systems; writing and calendars; life cycle events; arts and crafts; and religion.
Author: Lynn V. Foster
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780195183634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive and accessible reference explores the greatest and most mysterious of civilizations, hailed for its contributions to science, mathematics, and technology. Each chapter is supplemented by an extensive bibliography as well as photos, original line drawings, and maps.
Author: Ian F. Mahaney
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1508149887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ancient Maya civilization had a complex social structure, set of religious beliefs, and writing system. These are just some of the fun facts readers discover as they learn what it would be like to live among the Maya. Readers enhance their knowledge of common social studies curriculum topics as they explore topics such as Mayan art, social classes, and farming methods. These topics are presented through detailed main text, as well as additional fact boxes. Vibrant photographs, maps, and historical images help readers see for themselves what Mayan life was like.
Author: Gaspar Pedro González
Publisher: Yax Te' Foundation
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lewis Spence
Publisher: New York : AMS Press
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julie L. Kunen
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2022-05-10
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 0816549400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuman activity during centuries of occupation significantly altered the landscape inhabited by the ancient Maya of northwestern Belize. In response, the Maya developed new techniques to harvest the natural resources of their surroundings, investing increased labor and raw materials into maintaining and even improving their ways of life. In this lively story of life in the wetlands on the outskirts of the major site of La Milpa, Julie Kunen documents a hitherto unrecognized form of intensive agriculture in the Maya lowlands—one that relied on the construction of terraces and berms to trap soil and moisture around the margins of low-lying depressions called bajos. She traces the intertwined histories of residential settlements on nearby hills and ridges and agricultural terraces and other farming-related features around the margins of the bajo as they developed from the Late Preclassic perios (400 BC-AD 250) until the area's abandonment in the Terminal Classic period (about AD 850). Kunen examines the organization of three bajo communities with respect to the use and management of resources critical to agricultural production. She argues that differences in access to spatially variable natural resources resulted in highly patterned settlement remains and that community founders and their descendents who had acquired the best quality and most diverse set of resources maintained an elevated status in the society. The thorough integration of three lines of evidence—the settlement system, the agricultural system, and the ancient environment—breaks new ground in landscape research and in the study of Maya non-elite domestic organization. Kunen reports on the history of settlement and farming in a small corner of the Maya world but demonstrates that for any study of human-environment interactions, landscape history consists equally of ecological and cultural strands of influence.
Author: Kirsten Holm
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2012-01-15
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1448862175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals everyday life among the Maya through an account in graphic novel format of ordinary days and a new year's celebration for a prosperous family living in Copâan in what is now Honduras.
Author: Walter F. Morris
Publisher: ABRAMS
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the daily life and culture of the modern Maya people and discusses the connections with the civilization of their ancient ancestors.