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

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

Making sense of our universe...It's an age-old practice that transcends cultures and generations. From our vantage point, the larger than life Maya civilization