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. Its first cities,
such as Nakbe and El Mirador, had some of the largest temples ever
raised in Prehispanic America, while others such as Cival showed
even earlier evidence of complex rituals. The reality of this
Preclassic Maya civilization has been documented by scholars over
the past three decades: what had been seen as an age of simple
village farming, belatedly responding to the stimulus of more
advanced peoples in highland Mesoamerica, is now know to have been
the period when the Maya made themselves into one of the New
World's most innovative societies. This book discusses the most
recent advances in our knowledge of the Preclassic Maya and the
emergence of their rainforest civilization, with new data on
settlement, political organization, architecture, iconography and
epigraphy supporting a contemporary theoretical perspective that
challenges prior assumptions.
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