Product Description: Settlement archaeology in the Maya area has focused much of its attention on the polar extremes of the settlement continuum. As a result of this urban/rural bias, a whole range of complex rural settlements remain under-explored. The chapters in this volume highlight the variable quality of these "middle level settlements"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Great Maya center of Tikal in Guatemala is famous for its well-preserved architecture. This book presents detailed descriptions of a selection of unexcavated standing structures in the forests around the site center that complement the Museum's Architectural Survey conducted from 1960 to 1970...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An ethnographic study of modern Mayan houses, domestic settlement and activities and the use of space. A number of studied examples are given following a brief outline of the history of the northern part of the Yucatan, and the nature of pre-hispanic and colonial settlement.

Product Description: This book is a photographic voyage into the living world of the Maya. The symbolic ways that the Maya of Mexico and Central America paint their homes, places of worship, and dwellings for their dead are the focus of this volume. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Any consideration of ancient Mesoamerica, and more particularly the lowland Maya region, must include the great site of Tikal. Excavation and research were conducted at Tikal under the auspices of The University Museum and the government of Guatemala from 1956 through 1969...read more