An introduction to the classic Maya --
Maya antecedents --
The Olmec connection --
Maya history --
Classic period --
Classic Maya collapse --
Postclassic period --
Physical appearance --
Agriculture --
Commoner food, housing, and clothing --
Tools --
New evidence relating to the life-style of the classic Maya lords --
Sources of information concerning the classic Maya --
Classic Maya sacrifice and bloodletting --
Ball game --
Commerce and trade --
Government and society --
Feudalism --
Warfare --
Deities and myths --
Origins of Maya symbolism --
Cosmology --
The hero twins, myth of the underworld --
Numeration, and the computation of time --
Astronomy --
Hieroglyphic writing --
Recent discoveries at the cave of Naj Tunich (Stone House) --
Tikal area --
Copan area --
Quirigua area --
Architecture --
Ceramics, stratigraphy, and carbon-14 testing as archaeological tools.
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