480 pages : 33 cm

Translated from the German

Includes bibliographical references and index

Vocanoes and jungle, a richly varied habitat / Nikolai Grube -- Cacao, the beverage of the gods / Nikolai Grube -- The origins of Maya civilization : the beginning of village life / Norman Hammond -- Obsidian, the metal of the Maya / Nikolai Grube -- The first cities : the beginnings of urbanization and state formation in the Maya lowlands / Richard D. Hansen -- Jade, the green gold of the Maya / Elisabeth Wagner -- Maya agriculture / Peter D. Harrison -- Tortillas and tamales, the food of the Maize people and their gods / Marta Grube -- From chiefdoms to statehood in the highlands of Guatemala / Federico Fahsen -- The insignia of power / Nikolai Grube -- Power in the west : the Maya and Teotihuacan / Simon Martin -- Hieroglyphs, the gateway to history / Nikolai Grube -- Bark paper books / Nikolai Grube -- Astronomy and mathematics / Alexander W. Voss -- Solar eclipses : fearing the end of the world / Nikolai Grube -- The dynastic history of the Maya / Nikolai Grube and Simon Martin -- Marriage diplomacy : women at the royal court / Stefanie Teufel -- Under a deadly star : warfare among the classic Maya / Simon Martin -- A game of life and death : the Maya ball game / Pierre R. Colas and Alexander Voss -- Unity in space and time : the maya architecture / Annegrete Hohmann-Vogrin -- The history of a Maya settlement : research results from the excavations at Xkipche / Michael Vallo -- Maya architecture at Tikal / Peter D. Harrison -- Processions, pilgrims and load-carriers : the ceremonial roads / Markus Eberl -- Understanding the murals of Bonampak / Mary Miller -- Grave robbers in the jungle / Nikolai Grube -- The art of classic vase painting / Dorie Reents-Budet -- The classic Maya gods / Karl Taube -- Court dwarfs : the companions of rulers and envoys of the underworld / Christian Prager -- Maya creation myths and cosmography / Elisabeth Wagner -- Intoxication and ecstasy / Nikolai Grube -- Uncovering the dark secrets of the Maya : the archeology of the Maya caves / James E. Brady -- Jaina, the island necropolis / Christian Prager -- Death and conceptions of the soul / Markus Eberl -- Long twilight or new dawn? Transformations of Maya civilization in the Puuc Region / Nicholas P. Dunning -- ... and then it was sculpted, the precious stone : the Maya stonemasons and sculptors / Elisabeth Wagner -- The dynamics of maturing statehood in postclassic Maya civilization / Marilyn Mason -- The art of weaving / Stefanie Teufel -- The martial dynasties : the postclassic in the Maya highlands / Frauke Sachse -- The Spanish conquest of Yucatan and Guatemala in the 16th and 17th centuries / Christian Prager -- Kanek', the last king of the Itzaj Maya / Temis Vayhinger-Scheer -- Between conformity and rebellion : the Maya society in the Colonial Period (1546-1811) / Antje Gunsenheimer -- The search for evidence : the scientific discovery of the Maya / Eva Eggebrecht -- Maya cities : lost, excavated and conserved / Markus Eberl -- Maya today : from Indios deprived of rights to the Maya Movement / Nikolai Grube

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