The Maya

The classic, highly readable account of the ancient Maya spans a period from the first people of the Americas and the emergence of the Maya in approximately 2000 BC up to the present. For the first time in full color, this new edition includes recent discoveries and the latest research in this fast-changing field of scholarship. The Tenth Edition Features much New Material: Evidence of the earliest human occupants of the Maya region and the beginnings of agriculture and settled life, Analysis from lidar on swampy areas, such as Usumacinta, that reveals enormous rectangular earthworks, New details about the roles of women, courtiers, and foreigners, Novel research about Maya cities, including research into water quality, marketplaces, fortifications, and integrated road systems, Coverage of contemporary Maya, including their displacement and mistreatment, along with growing affirmations of their cultural identity and legal rights