The Ancient Maya of Mexico: Reinterpreting the Past of the Northern Maya Lowlands
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Description
Editor: Braswell, Geoffrey E.
Publisher: Routledge
Pub Date: 2015
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair. Binding tight. No marks, tears, folds. Lower rear cover corner has an approx. 4″ bend. Light edge wear. Appears unused.
Notes: “Long considered to be a passive periphery by many who do not work in the area, the northern Maya lowlands has been depicted as a region where: (1) political and economic complexity began quite late and was derived from elsewhere; (2) the culture was largely illiterate and did not produce important works of art or architecture before about A. D. 800; (3) the pottery is dull and uninteresting compared to the vivid polychromes of the south; and (4) after a relatively brief but magnificent florescence, society slipped backwards into ‘decadence’ and the region again became a passive backwater.” Apparently we were all wrong. Textbook. All illustrations in black-and-white.
