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Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
The acclaimed chronicle of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya. Includes the history of the major Maya sites, including Palenque, Uxmal, Chichen Itza, Tuloom, Copan, and more.... NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Illustrated with a map and more than 100 images. In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world’s most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood—both already celebrated for their adventures in Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece, and Rome—sailed together out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. What they found would upend the West’s understanding of human history. In the tradition of Lost City of Z and In the Kingdom of Ice, former San Francisco Chronicle journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist William Carlsen reveals the remarkable story of the discovery of the ancient Maya. Enduring disease, war, and the torments of nature and terrain, Stephens and Catherwood meticulously uncovered and documented the remains of an astonishing civilization that had flourished in the Americas at the same time as classic Greece and Rome—and had been its rival in art, architecture, and power. Their masterful book about the experience, written by Stephens and illustrated by Catherwood, became a sensation, hailed by Edgar Allan Poe as “perhaps the most interesting book of travel ever published” and recognized today as the birth of American archaeology. Most important, Stephens and Catherwood were the first to grasp the significance of the Maya remains, understanding that their antiquity and sophistication overturned the West’s assumptions about the development of civilization. By the time of the flowering of classical Greece (400 b.c.), the Maya were already constructing pyramids and temples around central plazas. Within a few hundred years the structures took on a monumental scale that required millions of man-hours of labor, and technical and organizational expertise. Over the next millennium, dozens of city-states evolved, each governed by powerful lords, some with populations larger than any city in Europe at the time, and connected by road-like causeways of crushed stone. The Maya developed a cohesive, unified cosmology, an array of common gods, a creation story, and a shared artistic and architectural vision. They created stucco and stone monuments and bas reliefs, sculpting figures and hieroglyphs with refined artistic skill. At their peak, an estimated ten million people occupied the Maya’s heartland on the Yucatan Peninsula, a region where only half a million now live. And yet by the time the Spanish reached the “New World,” the Maya had all but disappeared; they would remain a mystery for the next three hundred years. Today, the tables are turned: the Maya are justly famous, if sometimes misunderstood, while Stephens and Catherwood have been nearly forgotten. Based on Carlsen’s rigorous research and his own 1,500-mile journey throughout the Yucatan and Central America, Jungle of Stone is equally a thrilling adventure narrative and a revelatory work of history that corrects our understanding of Stephens, Catherwood, and the Maya themselves.
The Maya (Ancient Peoples & Places)
The Maya Has Long Been Established As The Best, Most Readable Introduction To The New World's Greatest Ancient Civilization. In Its Pages Professor Coe Distills A Lifetime's Scholarship For The Genera...l Reader And Student, Presenting The Latest Findings, Most Exciting Scholarship And Freshest Perspectives On Maya Culture. Since The Publication Of The Previous Edition, New Sites Have Been Uncovered And Further Excavations In Old Sites Have Proceeded At An Unprecedented Pace. New Epigraphic, Archaeological And Osteological Research Has Thrown Light On The Identity Of The Founding Fathers'' Of Such Great Sites As Tikal And Copan, And Their Close Affiliation With Teotihuacan. The Previously Little-known Centre Of Ek' Bahlam In Northeastern Yucatan Has Emerged As A Regional Kingdom Of Major Importance, With Extraordinary Stucco Reliefs And A Plethora Of Painted Inscriptions. This Seventh Edition Also Presents New Evidence For The Use Of Wetlands By The Classic Maya, And Fresh Perspectives On The Catastrophic Demise Of Classic Civilization By The Close Of The Ninth Century. A New Edition Of An Accessible Introduction To The Ancient New World Civilization Incorporates The Latest Archaeological Findings, Including The Discoveries Of San Bartolo Murals, New Information About The Founders Of The Tikal And Copan Communities, And The Regional Significance Of The Ek' Balam Kingdom. Chronological Table -- 1. Introduction -- The Setting -- Natural Resources -- Areas -- Periods -- Peoples And Languages -- Climate Change And Its Cultural Impact -- 2. The Earliest Maya -- Early Hunters -- Archaic Collectors And Cultivators -- Early Preclassic Villages -- The Middle Preclassic Expansion -- Preclassic Kaminaljuyu -- The May Lowlands -- 3. The Rise Of Maya Civilization -- The Birth Of The Calendar -- The Hero Twins And The Creation Of The World -- Izapa And The Pacific Coast -- Kaminaljuyu And The Maya Highlands -- The Peten And The Maya Lowlands -- The Mirador Basin -- San Bartolo -- From Preclassic To Classic In The Maya Lowlands -- 4. Classic Splendor : The Early Period -- Teotihuacan : Military Giant -- The Esperanza Culture -- Tzak'ol Culture In The Central Area -- Copan In The Early Classic -- The Northern Area -- 5. Classic Splendor : The Late Period -- Classic Sites In The Central Area -- Copan And Quirigua Tikal -- Calakmul --^ Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras, And Bonampak -- The Petexbatun -- Palenque -- Comalcalco And Tonina -- Classic Sites In The Northern Area : Río Bec, Chenes, And Coba -- Art Of The Late Classic -- 6. The Terminal Classic -- The Great Collapse -- Seibal And The Putun Maya -- Puuk Sites In The Northern Area -- The Terminal Classic At Chichen Itza -- Ek' Bahlam -- The Cotzumalhuapa Problem -- The End Of An Era -- 7. The Post-classic -- The Toltec Invasion And Chichen Itza -- The Itza And The City Of Mayapan -- The Independent States Of Yucatan -- The Central Area In The Post-classic -- Maya-mexican Dynasties In The Southern Area -- The Spanish Conquest -- 8. Maya Life On The Eve Of The Conquest -- The Farm And The Chase -- Industry And Commerce -- The Life Cycle -- Society And Politics -- 9. Maya Thought And Culture -- The Universe And The Gods -- The Earth And The Gods -- The Classic Maya Underworld -- Rites And Ritual Practitioners -- Numbers And The Calendar -- The Sun And The Moon --^ The Celestial Wanderers And The Stars -- The Nature Of Maya Writing -- History Graven In Stone -- Maya Superstates -- History And The Supernatural -- Name-tagging -- Spiritual Alter-egos -- 10. The Enduring Maya -- The New Spanish Order -- The Highland Maya, Yesterday And Today -- The Tzotzil Maya Of Zinacantan -- The Yucatec Maya -- The War Of The Castes -- The Maya Of Chan K'om -- The Lakandon -- Uprising In Chiapas -- The Great Terror -- The Maya Future -- Visiting The Maya Area -- Dynastic Rulers Of Classic Maya Cities. Michael D. Coe. With 186 Illustrations, 20 In Color. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 262-267) And Index.
Mystery of the Maya (Choose Your Own Adventure, #11)
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Breaking the Maya Code
Among the more exciting advances to be described are: the discovery of the specific Maya language and sophisticated grammar used by the ancient scribes on stone monuments and painted vases; archaeolog...ical explorations of tombs and buildings of the ancient founders of the great city of Copan, whose very existence had been predicted by epigraphers through glyphic decipherment; the realization that many small city-states were dominated by two rival giants, Tikal and Calakmul, through a potent combination of military conquest, diplomacy, and royal marriages. Twenty years ago, the hieroglyphic inscriptions of ruined Mayan monuments were largely unread. Today, thanks to an extraordinary breakthrough, these inscribed remains are revealing a history lost to humanity for a millennium. An informed account of one of the most exciting adventures of our age. Illustrated.
Canek: historia y leyenda de un héroe maya
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Mayan Civilization: A History from Beginning to End
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A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
the Recent Interpretation Of Maya Hieroglyphs Has Given Us The First Written History Of The New World As It Existed Before The European Invasion. In This Book, Two Of The First Central Figures In The ...Massive Effort To Decode The Glyphs, Linda Schele And David Freidel, Make This History Available In All Its Detail. a Forest Of Kings Is The Story Of Maya Kingship, From The Beginning Of Its Institution And The First Great Pyramid Builders Two Thousand Years Ago To The Decline Of Maya Civilization And Its Destruction By The Spanish. Here The Great Historic Rulers Of Pre-columbian Civilization Come To Life Again With The Decipherment Of Their Writing. At Its Height, Maya Civilization Flourished Under Great Kings Like Shield-jaguar, Who Ruled For More Than Sixty Years, Expanding His Kingdom And Building Some Of The Most Impressive Works Of Architecture In The Ancient World. Long Placed On A Mist-shrouded Pedestal As Austere, Peaceful Stargazers, The Maya Elites Are Now Known To Have Been The Rulers Of Populous, Aggressive City-states. hailed As A Rosetta Stone Of Maya Civilization (brian M. Fagan, Author Of people Of The Earth), a Forest Of Kings Is A Must For Interested Readers, Says Evon Vogt, Professor Of Anthropology At Harvard University. publishers Weekly two Maya Archeologists Base This Tale Of War, Expansion And Ritual On Recently Deciphered Mayan Hieroglyphics And Artifacts. According To Pw , The Authors ``vividly Conjure The Maya World Of Cyclical Time And Multiple Levels Of Reality, A Universe Where All Things Are Alive With Meaning.'' Illustrated. (jan.)
The Mayan Prophecies: Unlocking the Secrets of a Lost Civilization
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Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs
An Illustrated History Of The Pre-spanish Civilizations Of Mexico, Beginning With The Early Hunters And Continuing Through The Aztecs; Covering Early Village Life, The Rise Of Olmec Civilization, Arch...aeological Findings, Aztec Society, And Other Topics. Introduction -- Early Hunters -- The Archaic Period -- The Preclassic Period: Early Villagers -- The Preclassic Period: Early Civilizations -- The Classic Period -- The Epiclassic Period -- The Post-classic Period: The Toltec State -- The Post-classic Period: Rival States -- The Aztecs In 1519. Michael D. Coe & Rex Koontz. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 236-241) And Index.
The Lost Civilization Enigma: A New Inquiry Into the Existence of Ancient Cities, Cultures, and Peoples Who Pre-Date Recorded History
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