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The Southern Maya in the Late Preclassic: The Rise and Fall of an Early Mesoamerican Civilization

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From 400 BC to AD 250, the southern Maya region was once some of the remarkable civilizations of the ancient Americas. Filled with great cities linked by flourishing long-distance trade, shared elite ideologies, and a vibrant material culture, this region was once pivotal not only for the Maya but for Mesoamerica as a whole. Even supposing it has been of great interest to scholars, gaps within the knowledge have led to debate at the most important questions concerning the southern region.

Recent research has provided a wealth of broadly based new data that have expanded the understanding of this region and its influence on greater Mesoamerica. In The Southern Maya within the Late Preclassic, prominent contributors debate whether the southern region was once indeed “Maya” or as a substitute a region of intense multiethnic interaction, with speakers of many languages and lots of sources of identity. The chapters address a host of advanced developments to which this area can lay claim–urbanism and city-states, the earliest Maya writing, and the origin of the Maya calendar–in addition to additional issues including the construction of social and cultural identities, economic networks of early complex societies, relationships between the Maya and the Olmec, and a comprehensive discussion of the ancient city of Kaminaljuyu and its relationship to other cities within the region.

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