Maya ruins in Central America in color Tikal, Copán, and Quiriguá
William M. Ferguson and John Q. Royce; Foreword by Linda Schele
- Albuquerque, NM University of New Mexico Press 1983
- 387 p
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.