... revolutionize Maya archaeology, revealing settlement and population density on an unprecedented scale, Mayapán provides a model for understanding the specific articulations of power, people, and places in the past. Chapters 7 (“Religious Practice”) and 8 (“Militarism, Misery, and Collapse”) are more...

...C. Harvey Gardiner Mayapan. A Novelized History of the Cortês Conquest . By Lozano Argentina Diaz . Translated by Wright Lydia . Indian Hills , 1955 . The Falcon’s Wing Press . Pp. 247 . $2.95 . Copyright 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 ...

...Charles Gibson Copyright 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Mayapan Yucatan Mexico . By Pollock H. E. D. , . Washington , 1962 . Carnegie Institution of Washington . Publication. No. 619 . Maps. Notes. Illustrations . Pp. 515 . Paper. The Roys article will be of most...

... may well have answered the problem of the origin of maize, placing it in the Tehuacán region of Mexico, where agriculture flourished as early as 5200 B.C. Thompson’s expanded accounts of Tikal in its Classic, city-state brilliance and of Mayapán, capital of the late, centralized and militarized...

...). They coalesced into a league ( multepal ) with a capital at Mayapán, which endured for several hundred years before internal dissension shredded the alliance. Noble lineages left Mayapán in the mid-1400s (less than 100 years before Spaniards arrived), and smaller political networks of dependencies called...

... was Mayapán. Of greatest interest to the nonarchaeologist will be the extensive use of early written historic records and ethnographic analogy to make interpretations of the functions of various structural types, ceremonial circuits and religious organization, and economic and political institutions...

... analysis through extensive comparisons with other codexes; with buildings containing glyphs, stelae, and murals; and with scholarship both ethnographic and academic. Important in the background section is the supposition that the codex was created in Mayapan, a center of priestly study and book production...

... tradition, literary, linguistic, and cosmological, to deal adequately with the multiple problems presented. There is no awareness, for example, of the way that Mayan thought collapsed the fall of Mayapán, the Spanish conquest, and late colonial history into a single framework, almost a single event...

... scenarios featuring two fictitious scribes resident at Chichén Itzá and Mayapán and loosely based on evidence amassed in previous chapters. Each scenario begins with how these imagined specialists compiled astronomical data to create different parts of the Venus Table. Aldana then describes how...

.... Moreover, in a study of the food consumed in Mayapán, Marilyn Masson, Timothy Hare, Bradley Russell, Carlos Peraza Lope, and Jessica Campbell reveal the unusual growth in the consumption of meat, probably due to several factors including the existence of markets, tribute demands, and sumptuary laws...

... most of the towns and villages of the peninsula today. This pattern doubtlessly reflects the interregnum political conditions after the collapse (crumble?) of Mayapan—decentralized, but not totally atomized. We do not know if settlement had reached a temporary equilibrium, was in the process...