Papers from the 1987 Maya Weekend conference at the University of Pennsylvania Museum present current views of Maya culture and language. Also included is an ar

Ancient Maya comes to life in this new holistic and theoretical study.

From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of p

Using studies on contemporary Maya farming techniques and important new archaeological research, the authors show that the ancient Maya were able to support, su

Ancient Maya civilization thrived in the tropics of Central America for more than a thousand years and produced some of the world's finest architecture and art.