Embracing a wide range of research, this book offers various
views on the intellectual history of Maya archaeology and
ethnohistory and the processes operating in the rise and fall of
Maya civilization.
The fourteen studies were selected from those presented at the
Second Cambridge Symposium on Recent Research in Mesoamerican
Archaeology and are presented in three major sections.
The first of these deals with the application of theory, both
anthropological and historical, to the great civilization of the
Classic Maya, which flourished in the Yucatan, Guatemala, and
Belize during the first millennium A.D. The structural remains of
the Classic Period have impressed travelers and archaeologists for
over a century, and aspects of the development and decline of this
strange and brilliant tropical forest culture are examined here in
the light of archaeological research.
The second section presents the results of field research
ranging from the Highlands of Mexico east to Honduras and north
into the Lowland heart of Maya civilization, and iconographic study
of excavated material.
The third section covers the ethnohistoric approach to
archaeology, the conjunction of material and documentary evidence.
Early European documents are used to illuminate historic Maya
culture. This section includes transcriptions of previously
unpublished archival material.
Although not formally linked beyond their common field of
inquiry, the essays here offer a conspectus of late-twentieth
century Maya research and a series of case histories of the work of
some of the leading scholars in the field.
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