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Scholars have long debated the nature of Maya political organization during the Classic period (AD 250-950). Complex questions regarding political centralizatio

In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing tha

Rather than view the contours of Late Classic Maya social life solely from towering temple pyramids or elite sculptural forms, this book considers a suite of sm

Foias argues that there is no single Maya political history, but multiple histories, no single Maya state, but multiple polities that need to be understood at t