The Maya by Michael D. Coe | Anthropology

Used; Paperback - Good; Pelican edition, minor wear on the cover, spine creases, pages in tact but pulling away from the binding.

Originally published in 1966 by Thames and Hudson as v.52 in the series Ancient peoples and places. Contents; 1. Introduction -- The setting -- Areas -- Periods -- People and languages -- 2. The earliest Maya -- Early hunters -- Archaic collectors and cultivators -- Early formative villages -- The middle formative expansion -- 3. The rise of Maya civilization -- The birth of the calendar -- Izapa and the Pacific Coast -- Kaminaljuy� and the Maya highlands -- The Pet�n and the Maya Lowlands -- 4. Classic splendour : the early period -- The Esperanza culture -- Tzakol culture in the central area -- The northern era -- The Cotzumalhuapa problem -- 5. Classic splendour : the late period -- Classic sites in the central area -- Classic sites in the northern areas : Rio Bec, Chenes, and Cob� -- Classic sites in the northern area : the Puuc -- Art of the late classic -- The end of the classic Maya civilization -- 6. The post-classic -- The Toltec invasion and Toltec Chichen Itz� -- The Itz� and the city of Mayap�n -- The independent states of Yucat�n -- Maya-Mexican dynasties in the southern area -- The Spanish Conquest -- 7. Maya life -- The farm and the chase -- Industry and commerce -- The life cycle -- Society and politics -- 8. Maya thought -- The universe and the gods -- Priests and rites -- Numbers and the calendar -- The sun and the moon -- The celestial wanderers and the stars -- The nature of Maya writing -- The content of Maya writing. Subjects; Mayas Antiquities. Indians of Mexico Antiquities. Indians of Central America Antiquities. Mayas. Civilization, Mayan. Mexico Antiquities. Central America Antiquities. Precolumbian Central America Maya Social life.