The Maya: A Very Short Introduction (2024)

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Matthew Restall,

Matthew Restall

Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology

Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology, Penn State University

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Amara Solari

Amara Solari

Associate Professor of Art History and Anthropology

Associate Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Penn State University

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22 October 2020

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9780190645052

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9780190645021

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Restall, Matthew, and Amara Solari, The Maya: A Very Short Introduction, Very Short Introductions (New York, 2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 Oct. 2020), https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780190645021.001.0001, accessed 5 June 2024.

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The Maya: A Very Short Introduction examines the history and evolution of Maya civilization, explaining Maya polities or city-states, artistic expression, and ways of understanding the universe. Study of the Maya has tended to focus on the 2,000 years of history prior to contact with Europeans, and romantic ideas of discovery and disappearance have shaped popular myths about the Maya. However, they neither disappeared at the close of the Classic era nor were completely conquered by Europeans. Independent Maya kingdoms continued until the seventeenth century, and while none exists today, it is still possible to talk about a Maya world and Maya civilization in the twenty-first century.

Keywords: discovery, Mayan civilization, city-states, artistic expression, disappearance, Europeans, Independent Maya kingdoms

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Ancient History (Non-Classical, to 500 CE) Medieval and Renaissance History (500 to 1500) Latin American History

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Very Short Introductions

Collection: Very Short Introductions

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