The Maya / by Michael D. Coe
1975, Reprint. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled, nicked and rubbed as with age. Creased cover. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #415238
ISBN: 0140212965
Physical description; 236 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 19 cm. Notes; Originally published in 1966 by Thames and Hudson as v.52 in the series Ancient peoples and places. Contents; 1. Introduction -- The setting -- Areas -- Periods -- People and languages -- 2. The earliest Maya -- Early hunters -- Archaic collectors and cultivators -- Early formative villages -- The middle formative expansion -- 3. The rise of Maya civilization -- The birth of the calendar -- Izapa and the Pacific Coast -- Kaminaljuyú and the Maya highlands -- The Petén and the Maya Lowlands -- 4. Classic splendour : the early period -- The Esperanza culture -- Tzakol culture in the central area -- The northern era -- The Cotzumalhuapa problem -- 5. Classic splendour : the late period -- Classic sites in the central area -- Classic sites in the northern areas : Rio Bec, Chenes, and Cobá -- Classic sites in the northern area : the Puuc -- Art of the late classic -- The end of the classic Maya civilization -- 6. The post-classic -- The Toltec invasion and Toltec Chichen Itzá -- The Itzá and the city of Mayapán -- The independent states of Yucatán -- Maya-Mexican dynasties in the southern area -- The Spanish Conquest -- 7. Maya life -- The farm and the chase -- Industry and commerce -- The life cycle -- Society and politics -- 8. Maya thought -- The universe and the gods -- Priests and rites -- Numbers and the calendar -- The sun and the moon -- The celestial wanderers and the stars -- The nature of Maya writing -- The content of Maya writing. Subjects; Mayas Antiquities. Indians of Mexico Antiquities. Indians of Central America Antiquities. Mayas. Civilization, Mayan. Mexico Antiquities. Central America Antiquities. Precolumbian Central America Maya Social life.
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