Amazing Maya Inventions You Can Build Yourself (Build It Yourself series) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an excellent resource guide about the Maya Civilization. It contains many facts about Maya life that I hadn't known before and is very good at explaining the Maya number system. The projects are easy and fun to make. I think parents and students could rest easier being able to use these ideas to make a project for school. Good book and highly recommended.

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The amazing accomplishments of the ancient Maya as well as the Maya currently living in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula are highlighted in this collection of 25 creative, educational, hands-on projects. Covering everything from the 20-base numbering system to the Maya's extensive trade relationships, kids learn about appeasing the gods with a "jade" ceremonial mask, language development with a screen-fold book for drawings and hieroglyphs, and Maya astronomy with a sand art picture of the cosmos. Informative text and sidebars teach about the Maya's impressive achievements in science, math, language, music, medicine, and architecture; and their daily activities and management of natural resources.

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Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) Review

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(More customer reviews)Gabrielle Vail once again makes the intangible perceptions of the Maya real for the 21st Century. Whether you are in academia or a hobby-Mayanist, her ability to convey material will have you coming back for more. What's next, Dr. Vail?

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Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests examines evidence for cultural interchange among the intellectual powerbrokers in Postclassic Mesoamerica, specifically those centered in the northern Maya lowlands and the central Mexican highlands. Contributors to the volume's thirteen chapters bring an interdisciplinary perspective to understanding the interactions that led to shared content in hieroglyphic codices and mural art. The authors address similarities in artifacts, architectural styles, and building alignments—often produced in regions separated by hundreds of miles—based on their analyses of iconographic, archaeological, linguistic, and epigraphic material. The volume includes a wealth of new data and interpretive frameworks in this comprehensive discussion of a critical time period in the Mesoamerican past.

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