Handbook to life in the ancient Maya world
Presents the latest archaeological and historical research on all aspects of Maya society, from its earliest beginnings to the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century, describing the evolution of Maya civilization and the geography of the Pre-Columbian Maya, with information on society and government, warfare, religion and cosmology, art, funerary beliefs, architecture, arithmetic and astronomy, Mayan languages and writing, industry and trade, and daily life