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Proceedings of the conference "The Origins of Maya States," held in Philadelphia, April 10-13, 2007.

This book examines the emergence of political institutions in Maya civilization through studies of landscape, architecture and material culture.

Of Archaic and Early Preclassic developments -- Patterns in the evolution of Mesoamerican civilization -- 5. The emergence of Maya civilization in the Middle Pr

Encyclopedia of the Ancient Maya offers an A-to-Z overview of the ancient Maya culture from its inception around 3000 BC to the Spanish Conquest after AD 1600.

The Pre-Columbian Maya were organized into a series of independent kingdoms or polities rather than unified into a single state. The vast majority of studies of