The Maya
(Book)

Introduction : The setting ; Natural resources ; Areas ; Periods ; Peoples and languages ; Climate change and its cultural impact

The earliest Maya : Early hunters ; Archaic collectors and cultivators ; Early Preclassic villages ; The Middle Preclassic expansion ; Preclassic Kaminaljuyu ; The Maya lowlands ; The rise of Maya civilization : The birth of the calendar ; Izapa and the Pacific Coast ; The hero twins and the creation of the world (box) ; Kaminaljuyu and the Maya highlands ; The Peten and the Maya lowlands ; The Mirador region ; San Bartolo ; From Preclassic to Classic in the Maya lowlands ; Classic splendor: the Early Period : Defining the early classic ; Teotihuacan: military giant ; The Esperanza culture ; Cerén: a New World Pompeii? ; Tzakol culture in the central area ; Copan in the Early Classic ; The northern area

Classic splendor: the Late Period : Classic sites in the central area ; Copan and Quirigua ; Tikal ; Calakmul ; Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras, and Bonampak ; The Petexbatun ; Palenque ; Comalcalco and Tonina ; Classic sites in the northern area: Rio Bec, Chenes, and Coba ; Art of the late classic

The terminal classic : The great collapse ; Ceibal and the Putun Maya ; Puuc sites in the northern area ; The terminal classic at Chichen Itza ; Ek' Balam ; The Cotzumalhuapa problem ; The end of an era

The Postclassic : The Toltec invasion and Chichen Itza ; The Itza and the city of Mayapan ; The independent states of Yucatan ; The central area in the Postclassic ; Maya-Mexican dynasties in the southern area ; The Spanish Conquest

Maya life on the eve of the conquest : The farm and the chase ; Industry and commerce ; The life cycle ; Society and politics

Maya thought and culture : Being religious ; Ordering the universe ; Gods and spirits ; Numbers and the calendar ; The sun and the moon ; The celestial wanderers and the stars ; The nature of Maya writing ; History graven in stone ; The great game ; A possessed world

The enduring Maya : The new Spanish order ; The highland Maya, yesterday and today ; The Tsotsil Maya of Zinacantan ; The Yukateko Maya ; The War of the Castes ; The Maya of Chan Kom ; The Lakandon ; Uprising in Chiapas ; The great terror ; The Maya future

Visiting the Maya area

Dynastic rulers of classic Maya cities.