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Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands: Integration, Interaction, Dissolution

By James L. Fitzsimmons (editor)

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9781607324126 | Univ Pr of Colorado, November 21, 2015, cover price $65.00

Maya: Divine Kings of the Rainforest

Product Description: Sunken cities in the jungle and towering temple pyramids reflect only a small portion of our knowledge about Mayan culture. This fascinating people achieved the landmarks of an advanced civilizationâ such as a highly developed writing system and densely populated citiesâ in the classical period (AD 300-600), earning them a place among the greatest civilizations in the world...read more

By Nikolai Grube (editor)

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9783848009367 | Sew edition (H F Ullmann, May 15, 2016), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Sunken cities in the jungle and towering temple pyramids reflect only a small portion of our knowledge about Mayan culture.

9780841600959 | 1 edition (H F Ullmann, February 1, 2008), cover price $49.95

The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context: Case Studies in Resilience and Vulnerability

By Gyles Iannone (editor)

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9781607322795 | Univ Pr of Colorado, March 15, 2014, cover price $75.00

Fanning the Sacred Flame: Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson

By Matthew A. Boxt (editor), David Carrasco (foreword by), Brian Dervin Dillon (editor) and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (foreword by)

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9781607321606 | Univ Pr of Colorado, June 15, 2012, cover price $50.00

Exploring the Life, Myth, and Art of the Maya

By Timothy Laughton

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9781448848324 | 1 edition (Rosen Pub Group, August 15, 2011), cover price $43.60

Maya Civilization

By Charles George and Linda George

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9781420502404 | 1 edition (Lucent Books, June 4, 2010), cover price $39.90

Aztecs & Maya

A well-illustrated coverage of the history of Central America, from its origins to today, taking in the great civilisations of the Olmecs, Aztecs, Maya and Toltecs.

By N. James

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9780752454283 | Trafalgar Square, May 1, 2010, cover price $24.95

9780752434476 | Tempus Pub Ltd, October 15, 2005, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A well-illustrated coverage of the history of Central America, from its origins to today, taking in the great civilisations of the Olmecs, Aztecs, Maya and Toltecs.

Daily Life in Maya Civilization

'Popular overview of Maya civilization. Begins with basic observations about archaeology and the Maya, then presents a synthesis of Maya history to provide the context for a topically organized characterization of the Maya cultural tradition. Essentiallya streamlined version of author's The ancient Maya, though less detailed and less extensively illustrated'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Provides a history of Mayan culture, discusses its economic growth, social roles, and religion, and examines Mayan writing and numerical systems

By Robert J. Sharer

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9780313351297 | 2 edition (Greenwood Pub Group, May 14, 2009), cover price $55.00

9780313293429 | Greenwood Pub Group, September 30, 1996, cover price $57.95 | About this edition: 'Popular overview of Maya civilization.

The Ancient Maya

Describes the civilization of ancient Maya, including the roles and responsibilities of the people within different social classes, such as the farmers, rulers, scribes, warriors, and traders.

By Lila Perl

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9780531168486 | Franklin Watts, September 1, 2005, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Describes the civilization of ancient Maya, including the roles and responsibilities of the people within different social classes, such as the farmers, rulers, scribes, warriors, and traders.

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9780531123812 | Franklin Watts, March 1, 2005, cover price $30.50 | About this edition: Describes the civilization of ancient Maya, including the roles and responsibilities of the people within different social classes, such as the farmers, rulers, scribes, warriors, and traders.

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9781439525449 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $18.95

9781417673032, titled "Ancient Maya" | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2005, cover price $20.80 | About this edition: Describes the civilization of ancient Maya, including the roles and responsibilities of the people within different social classes, such as the farmers, rulers, scribes, warriors, and traders.

Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel

Product Description: When the Spaniards conquered the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1500s, they made a great effort to destroy or Christianize the native cultures flourishing there. That they were in large part unsuccessful is evidenced by the survival of a number of documents written in Maya and preserved and added to by literate Mayas up to the 1830s...read more

By Munro S. Edmonson (editor)

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9780292730274 | Univ of Texas Pr, October 1, 1986, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: When the Spaniards conquered the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1500s, they made a great effort to destroy or Christianize the native cultures flourishing there.

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9780292719378 | Univ of Texas Pr, August 1, 2008, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: When the Spaniards conquered the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1500s, they made a great effort to destroy or Christianize the native cultures flourishing there.

The First Maya Civilization: Ritual and Power in the Maya Lowlands Before the Classic Period

Product Description: When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise of such famous cities as Palenque, Copan and Yaxchilan, Maya civilization was already nearly a millennium old...read more

By Francisco Estrada-belli

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9780415429948, titled "The First Maya Civilization: Ritual and Power Before the Classic Period" | Routledge, December 20, 2010, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.

The Ancient Maya: New Perspectives

A guide for scholars and lay readers on the debates surrounding such topics as Mayan hieroglyphs, the Maya economy, and the civilization's collapse explains the conflicting theories of top experts while sharing information drawn from the latest archaeological research. Reprint.

By Heather McKillop

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9781576076965 | Abc-Clio Inc, August 1, 2004, cover price $83.00

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9780393328905, titled "Ancient Maya: New Perspectives" | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 2006), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A guide for scholars and lay readers on the debates surrounding such topics as Mayan hieroglyphs, the Maya economy, and the civilization's collapse explains the conflicting theories of top experts while sharing information drawn from the latest archaeological research.

The Mayas

Product Description: The Mayas succeeded in creating one of the most brilliant civilizations in history, without inventions such as the wheel or animal labor. Despite their technologic limitations, they colonized a vast portion of Central America and built many impressive monuments.

By Dolores Gassos

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9788434227385, titled "Mayas" | Parramon, December 30, 2004, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Introduces the history and civilization of the Mayas, and discusses the role of corn, the gods, social classes, cities, pyramids, ball games, astronomy, art, everyday life, and writing.

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9780791084892 | Chelsea Clubhouse, August 1, 2005, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: The Mayas succeeded in creating one of the most brilliant civilizations in history, without inventions such as the wheel or animal labor.

The World of the Maya

Product Description: Sam Osmanagich transports the reader to ruined Mayan cities including the brilliant Chichen Itza, elegant Uxmal, artistic Copan, magical Palenque, forgotten Ek Balam, beautiful Izamal, hidden Yaxchilan, spiritual Oxkintok, monumental Coba, and colossal Tikal.

By Sam Osmanagich

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9781593332747 | Gorgias Pr Llc, September 14, 2005, cover price $47.50 | About this edition: Sam Osmanagich transports the reader to ruined Mayan cities including the brilliant Chichen Itza, elegant Uxmal, artistic Copan, magical Palenque, forgotten Ek Balam, beautiful Izamal, hidden Yaxchilan, spiritual Oxkintok, monumental Coba, and colossal Tikal.

The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation

Product Description: The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands revisits one of the great problems in Mayan archaeology - the apparent collapse of Classic Maya civilization from roughly A.D. 830 to 950. During this period the Maya abandoned their power centers in the southern lowlands and rather abruptly ceased the distinctive cultural practices that marked their apogee in the Classic period...read more

By Arthur A. Demarest (editor) and Don S. Rice (editor)

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9780870817397 | Univ Pr of Colorado, January 1, 2004, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands revisits one of the great problems in Mayan archaeologyâthe apparent collapse of Classic Maya civilization from roughly A.

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9780870818226 | Univ Pr of Colorado, August 1, 2005, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands revisits one of the great problems in Mayan archaeology - the apparent collapse of Classic Maya civilization from roughly A.

Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World

Presents the latest archaeological and historical research on all aspects of Maya society, from its earliest beginnings to the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century.

By Lynn V. Foster

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9780816041480 | Facts on File, December 1, 2001, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Presents the latest archaeological and historical research on all aspects of Maya society, from its earliest beginnings to the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century.

Paperback:

9780195183634 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 7, 2005, cover price $19.95

Life Among The Maya

Describes the history, culture, and people of the Maya civilization, including priests, merchants, and artists.

By Chris Eboch

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9781590181621 | Lucent Books, May 5, 2005, cover price $31.45 | About this edition: Describes the history, culture, and people of the Maya civilization, including priests, merchants, and artists.

Ancient Maya: The Rise And Fall Of A Rainforest Civilization

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By Arthur Demarest

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Hardcover:

9780521592246 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 24, 2005, cover price $94.99

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9780521533904 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 31, 2005, cover price $39.99

Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos

Product Description: How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization, superordinate and subordinate status - with far-flung analogies to emerging states in Europe, Asia, and Africa...read more

By Prudence M. Rice

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9780292702615 | 1 edition (Univ of Texas Pr, November 30, 2004), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: How did the ancient Maya rule their world?

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9780292705692 | 1 edition (Univ of Texas Pr, November 30, 2004), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: How did the ancient Maya rule their world?

The Ancient Maya: A Myreportlinks.Com Book

Looks at the land, people, culture, and history of the ancient Maya.

By Suzanne Lieurance

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9780766051973 | Myreportlinks.Com, August 1, 2004, cover price $25.26 | About this edition: Looks at the land, people, culture, and history of the ancient Maya.

The Mayas

By Mary Englar

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9780736826952 | Capstone Pr Inc, July 1, 2004, cover price $16.01

The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings

An in-depth discussion of the latest archeological findings about the Mayan civilization explores the sophistication of this long-misunderstood culture and addressing such issues as why the civilization disappeared, why they built cities in jungles, and more. (view table of contents)

By David Drew

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9780520226128 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: An in-depth discussion of the latest archeological findings about the Mayan civilization explores the sophistication of this long-misunderstood culture and addressing such issues as why the civilization disappeared, why they built cities in jungles, and more.

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9780520234581 | Univ of California Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $17.95

Scribes, Warriors and Kings: The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya

Traces the history of the city of Copan, and describes how new discoveries are shedding light on the city's collapse (view table of contents)

By William L. Fash

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9780500390283 | Thames & Hudson, November 1, 1991, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Traces the history of the city of Copan, and describes how new discoveries are shedding light on the city's collapse

Paperback:

9780500282823, titled "Scribes, Warriors, and Kings: The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya" | Rev sub edition (Thames & Hudson, July 1, 2001), cover price $24.95

9780500277089 | Reprint edition (Thames & Hudson, May 1, 1993), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Copan in modern Honduras was one of the great cities of the Classic Maya.

The Great Maya Droughts: Water, Life, and Death

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By Richardson Benedict Gill

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9780826321947 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $49.95

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9780826327741 | Reprint edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, April 1, 2001), cover price $39.95

Classic Maya Political History: Hieroglyphic and Archaeological Evidence

Product Description: This volume is the first to present in detail the results of recent decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing and to consider the implications of a Classic Maya written history. Contributors examine the way in which the Maya elite created the kinship, alliance, warfare and ceremonial networks on which the civilization was founded...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By T. Patrick Culbert (editor)

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9780521392105 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $83.99

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9780521564458 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $88.00 | About this edition: This volume is the first to present in detail the results of recent decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing and to consider the implications of a Classic Maya written history.

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