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	Mayan Archeology - The Maya - General Information
		Agricultural crisis, political unrest, military coups, famines or diseases, all have been theorized but the Maya left no reason for the collapse of their society in their writings.
		The Maya also had a strong oral tradition where learning and tradition was passed down through the generations through word of mouth, which was strengthened after the destruction of their codices by the Spaniards.
		To the north, the Maya region is bounded by the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the southern boarder would be marked by the Lempa river in western El-Salvadore, and the Ulua river in western Honduras.
	www.isourcecom.com /maya/themaya/whowere.htm (3504 words)

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		Later work has gone beyond lists of rulers to clarify the family relationships among the people named in the inscriptions, and it has become clear that during the Classic period rule in Maya society was passed from father to son, much as it was in the hereditary monarchies of Europe.
		Family connections appear to have been fundamental to the political organization of Maya society.
		Most Maya texts describe only major episodes in the lives of rulers and only those that bear directly on their status as lord, such as birth, accession to the throne, death and burial.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/legacy/mayan_lost_tribes/maya_writing/writing.html (3409 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		Sharma’s research effort was for Maanjal, a society for empowerment of women in Noida, and Vikalp, another organisation in Baroda.
		These are relationships that cut across communities and income groups in rural areas,” said Maya Sharma, an activist who has researched on working-class lesbian women.
		Such bonding was a sign of rebellion against patriarchal society and oppression of women, she said.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040622/asp/nation/story_3401569.asp (710 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Oldest Mayan mural found by Peabody researcher
		Archaeologist William Saturno (left) reattaches a section of a pre-Classic Maya mural discovered at San Bartolo, a remote Maya ceremonial site in northern Guatemala.The discovery is reported in the April issue of National Geographic magazine.
		(Photos by Kenneth Garret © National Geographic Society)
		They scrambled to get emergency research funding, landing a grant from National Geographic, which is publishing an account of the mural's discovery in the April issue of its magazine.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/03.21/01-mayan.html (1356 words)

	Northern Belize - The Postclassic Period for the Maya within the present-day boundaries of Northern Belize.
		Confronted with the opportunity to create their society anew with the collapse of mighty cities of the Classic period, Maya villagers in northern Belize discarded some of the fancier trappings of divine kingship like large monumental buildings and stelae that commemorated the deeds of boasting rulers.
		Traditional archaeological thought characterizes the end of the Classic Period as the beginning of the end for the Maya civilization, and the Postclassic has traditionally been described as a militaristic, decadent, and degenerate phase in Maya history.
		Based on archaeology instead of Spanish accounts, researchers are finding this period was a move away from the religious and ritual domination of the high priests in the Classic Period to a more rational society.
	www.northernbelize.com /hist_maya_postclassic.html (492 words)

	EEF NEWS
		info: rschulz@thewalters.org --CANADA-- a) La Société pour l'Étude de l'Égypte Ancienne Society for the Study for Egyptian Antiquities society website --SSEA Toronto-- * The SSEA Scholar's Colloquium 2005 A Call of Papers may be found at the SSEA website; deadline for abstracts is October 1.
		"From its rich Egyptian collection, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (the Netherlands), has put together three identical exhibitions, which are made available to international museums and exhibition centres." info: URL info: URL info: opening and tour of this exhibition have been postponed until a date not yet known.
		The revised and new dates are: Saharan archaeology: Sunday 25 September - Saturday 03 December 2005 Egyptian archaeology: Sunday 25 September - Saturday 05 November 2005 See URL for further details.
	www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/Alley/4482/EEFNEWS.html (492 words)

	NewsletterF03
		The article discusses the function and usage of caves in Maya society and provides a detailed analysis and interpretation of the archaeological context of its discovery based on a thorough ethnohistoric review of the role of scepters and ancestral figurines in Maya society.
		Maya Mountains Archaeological Project, I was invited to become the project epigrapher for the Nixtun-Ch’ich’ Archaeological Project. Directed by Drs.
		With the Maya Hieroglyphic Weekend scheduled in October, students enrolled in this course will have a unique opportunity to hear the very latest Maya discoveries from one of the biggest names in the field.
	www.csuohio.edu /ant/Newsletterweb.htm (5963 words)

	Internet Resources
		Mayan Culture - Information about the history, religion, society, politics and culture of the Maya.
		Secrets of the Maya Glyphs - Play an animated, interactive game and learn about the Maya and their picture writing.
		Mayan Greeting - Listen to a greeting in the language of the Maya.
	www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/listmayaazdo.html (685 words)

	Civilization.ca - Mystery of the Maya - Maya civilization
		When the northern Maya were integrated into the Toltec society by A.D. 1200, the Maya dynasty finally came to a close, although some peripheral centres continued to thrive until the Spanish Conquest in the early sixteenth century.
		This civilization developed into highly structured kingdoms during the Classic period, A.D. Their society consisted of many independent states, each with a rural farming community and large urban sites built around ceremonial centres.
		Maya history can be characterized as cycles of rise and fall: city-states rose in prominence and fell into decline, only to be replaced by others.
	www.civilization.ca /civil/maya/mmc01eng.html (685 words)

	Maya script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This argument was extended from a populist perspective to say that the deciphered texts tell us only about the concerns and beliefs of the society's elite, and not about the ordinary Maya.
		Maya writing consisted of a highly elaborate set of glyphs which were laboriously painted on ceramics, walls or bark-paper codices, carved in wood or stone, or molded in stucco.
		Maya writing was called "hieroglyphics" or "hieroglyphs" by early European explorers of the 18th and 19th century who did not understand it but found its general appearance reminisscent of Egyptian hieroglyphs, which the Maya writing system is not related to.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maya_hieroglyphics (2655 words)

	Hieroglyphs and History at Copán
		Certainly enough is known to allow us to step back from the details of deciphering to consider what the Maya had to say about their own society and history.
		Anyone glancing at a Maya inscriptions would be immediately struck by the sheer complexity of the visual forms of the script itself -- the "look" of the Maya script is in fact difficult to compare with any other.
		This temple was conceived as the model of the primordial maize-sprouting mountain (wits) of Maya cosmology.
	www.peabody.harvard.edu /Copan/text.html (5141 words)

	Mayan Archeology - The Maya - General Information
		Agricultural crisis, political unrest, military coups, famines or diseases, all have been theorized but the Maya left no reason for the collapse of their society in their writings.
		The Maya also had a strong oral tradition where learning and tradition was passed down through the generations through word of mouth, which was strengthened after the destruction of their codices by the Spaniards.
		To the north, the Maya region is bounded by the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the southern boarder would be marked by the Lempa river in western El-Salvadore, and the Ulua river in western Honduras.
	www.isourcecom.com /maya/themaya/whowere.htm (3504 words)

	culture.htm
		The Maya also thought that the Moon and Sun gods were the parents of humans (the Sun god was the father and the Moon god was the mother).
		One of the examples of beauty that the Maya practiced, was that they pressed their children's faces (width wise) when they were young, so that when they were older they'd have some beauty in them.
		The Maya were one of the most brilliant and powerful cultures known to Mesoamerica, indeed their civilization spanned a period of 3,000 years.
	www.mayanet.hn /copan/English/Culture/culture.htm (1805 words)

	Valuable Resources - Hinduism at a Glance
		Maya is a lifeless power of God having three qualities: sattvic (pious), rajas (selfish) and tamas (impious) that represent its existence when it is evolved into the form of the universe.
		They reveal the sequence of the procedure of creation of the universe, the exact model and working of the universe, as well as the science of defense, medicine and aviation, whatever is required by the society for daily living.
		The Divine scriptures of Hinduism include the Vedas, the Upvedas, the Vedangas, the Smritis, the Darshan Shastras, the Upnishads, the Puranas, the Itihas (Ramayan and Mahabharat), the Gita, the Bhagwatam and the writings of Jagadgurus, acharyas, and Saints.
	www.thevedicfoundation.org /valuable_resources/hinduism_at_a_glance.htm (825 words)

	Mexican and Maya Ceramics
		Maya artists produced renderings of types of animals which were significant to the members of society as food, pets or pests.
		It is difficult to determine if animals depicted on ceramic vessels are parts of purely naturalistic scenes, are related to stories whose texts have not survived from the Classic period or are supernatural creatures.
		Ancient ceramic shaft-tomb figures from the West Mexican states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, and Michoacán are around you.
	mcclungmuseum.utk.edu /newarchives/maya_mex/index.htm (825 words)

	Chapter 6 - Images of Gender and Labor Organization in Classic Maya Society
		Images of Gender and Labor Organization in Classic Maya Society
		Classic Maya texts, like Classic Maya sculptural images, suggest that complementary contributions of male and female were emphasized as part of the construction of political power.
		The basic body and facial type of Classic Maya sculpture is essentially sexless, and it is only through the use of distinctive costumes, and of distinct signs modifying the names of females in texts, that male and female actors have been identified (Proskouriakoff 1961, Miller 1974, Marcus 1976, 1987; Schele 1979, Bruhns 1988).
	www.anthro.appstate.edu /ebooks/gender/ch06.html (825 words)

	Vedanta
		Through the proper knowledge of Vedanta, however, the individual soul recognizes the limitless reality forever existing behind the cosmic veil of maya, realizes that its own true nature is identical with Brahman, and through this self-realization achieves moksha (release from samsara and karma) and Nirvana.
		In the U.S., for example, in the early 1980s some 1000 members were claimed by the Vedanta Society of America, affiliated with a group with international headquarters at Belur Math, the Ramakrishna Mission chapel near Calcutta..
		Vedanta is based on the speculative portion of late Vedic literature, primarily the treatises known as Aranyakas and Upanishads.
	www.connect.net /ron/vedanta.html (825 words)

	mayaintro
		Maya --- Brief introduction to the ancient and modern Maya from the Canadian Society for Mesoamerican Studies.
		Maya Writing, a Scientific American article, is a good introduction to the Maya script that explains the key breakthroughs which have made it possible to read most hieroglyphic texts.
		Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs by Harri Kettunen and Christophe Helmke is the text used at workshops teaching the Maya script presented by
	members.shaw.ca /mjfinley/mayaintro.html (1619 words)

	Creative Minds Mythology Ezine
		Such actions harken back to Maya mythology, according to which First Father Hun-Hunahpu (the ancestor of the Maya elite and father to the Hero Twins) lost a ballgame in Xibalba to the Lords of Death and he was subsequently decapitated and buried in the ballcourt of Xibalba.
		The Maya of Central America at their greatest expanse covered the areas known today as the Yucatan Penninsula to the north, the modern Mexican state of Chiapas to the west, and their cultural remains can be found throughout the countries of Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.
		According to the Maya creation story, the POPOL VUH, once the Hero Twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque finished with their defeat of the Lords of Death and resurrected their father Hun-Hunahpu the Maize God in the ballcourt of Xibalba, they ascended to the heavens.
	www.create.org /myth/mayanmyths.htm (5596 words)

	Maya Society of Minnesota
		Our Maya Society membership has been represented at many of these and they are a wonderful opportunity to both get a firsthand look at "what's hot" and current, but also a chance to get to meet some of the people making significant contributions to our knowledge and understanding of the ancient Maya.
		The Maya Society of Minnesota is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational experiences about the ancient and modern Maya and related cultures for its members and the public.
		A contemporary K'iche' Maya ritual-drama, La Conquista recounts the military defeat of the K'iche' by the Spanish in 1524 and is considered the national dance of Guatemala.
	www.hamline.edu /mayasociety (3305 words)

	Human Biology in the Classic Maya Collapse:
		Of the abundant pathology documented in osteological studies of Maya skeletal remains, evidence for anemia, infection and growth disruption have been marshaled to demonstrate that the Late Classic Maya society was poorly adapted to its environmental surroundings.
		Hence the ancient Maya civilization of Central America is often characterized as curious, both in popular and scholarly works, and viewed as an ecological anomaly of high culture that developed in a tropical backwater despite all odds.
		The Maya data are also remarkably similar to the prevalence of porotic hyperostosis recorded for Medieval York, where malnutrition and infection produced a high level of pathology (Grauer, 1993).
	www.tamu.edu /classes/anth/lwright/anth308/wrightwhite.html (3305 words)

	Tarlton Law Library, Resources on Aztec and Maya Law
		Contains the text in English and Spanish of the "New Laws of the Indies," which the Spanish crown was later forced to rescind by colonists outraged at having to give up their allotments of Indian laborers.
		Borah describes the failure of the Spanish government's effort to preserve native legal customs, and the consequences of this failure in terms of disruption of the Indian social order and the flood of litigation by Indians in the Spanish courts.
		The main theme is the gradual disappearance of indigenous legal institutions in favor of Spanish law during the colonial period.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /rare/aztec.html (4359 words)

	abandonment --� Encyclop�dia Britannica
		French economist and humanitarian Frédéric Passy in 1867 founded the International League for Peace, later known as the French Society for International Arbitration.
		The Tiber River flows through the center of...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?eu=3248 (4359 words)

	astro.html
		The Maya, through years of patient observation and mysterious intent, were able to find a connection between Earth and Venus such that "the Venus year (~584 days) meshes perfectly with the length of the year of our seasons, 365 days, in the ratio of 5 to 8" (Aveni 30).
		For example, a Maya creation story portrays Venus as a "twin who goes into the underworld with his brother the sun to battle these lords of pestilence" and ends up tricking the fiends, making the world what would otherwise be "far worse off with disease than it is today" (Aveni 50).
		While waiting for the sun to rise one spring morning, an ancient Maya might have noticed Venus appearing from a long absence and begun the crop planting on that sighting of Venus, knowing the rain was coming.
	freeztar.20m.com /astro.html (4359 words)

	Encyclopedia: Maya the Bee
		The storyline is centered on the relation of Maya and her society, the adventures serving to educate the young Maya.
		Maya is a bee born in a bee hive during internal unrest: the hive is dividing itself into two new colonies.
		Maya is faced with the decision to either return to hive and suffer her due punishment, saving the hive, or leaving the plan unannounced, saving herself but destroying the hive.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Maya-the-Bee (850 words)

	Precolumbian Society Events
		This model may be extrapolated to other almanacs in the Maya codices that (1) include repetitive iconography in each frame and (2) can be associated with ethnohistoric descriptions of haab' rituals.
		The idea that Maya almanacs could be structured in terms of the 52-year calendar marks a radical departure from previous interpretations that they represent 260-day repeating cycles.
		Vail is the co-editor of “Papers on the Madrid Codex” (MARI, 1997) and of a forthcoming volume (co-edited with Anthony Aveni) Decoding a Postclassic Maya Document: New Approaches to the Study of the Madrid Codex.
	www.mostlymaya.com /PCS.html (850 words)

	President's Forum with Maya Lin
		Maya Lin talked with Vishakha N. Desai, President, Asia Society about her creative philosophy, the inspiration for her works, and some of the issues which face architects today.
		Maya Lin burst into the public eye as an architecture student with her winning design for the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial (1982).
		Since then, Lin has pursued a career in art and architecture, producing works that include the Civil Rights Memorial (1989) in Montgomery, AL, the Langston Hughes Library (1999) and a chapel (2004) for The Children’s Defense Fund in Clinton, TN, environmental art installations across the country, and several works in progress.
	www.asiasource.org /arts/mayalin.cfm (248 words)

	ICE Case Study: The Mayans
		We suggest that the rapid expansion of Maya civilization from 550 to 750 A.D. during climatically favorable (relatively wet) times resulted in a population operating at the limits of the environment's carrying capacity, leaving Maya society especially vulnerable to multiyear droughts.
		David Stuart, a Maya hieroglyph expert at Harvard University, said the conflicts recorded in the seventh-century inscriptions at Dos Pilas did not lead directly to the abandonment of Maya cities, which happened much later.
		Demarest thinks the warfare described in the Dos Pilas inscriptions may reflect a period when the Maya civilization was on the verge of moving to a higher level of organization and consolidating into a single empire.
	www.american.edu /ted/ice/maya.htm (2229 words)

	War and Art go Together in Burma Bordering Manipur
		Secretary of Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra Society, Gautam Sharma also echoed her views saying that the upcoming artists of the region should get enough national and international exposures.
		'The artworks Archaic' by Joychandra Sharma, 'Maya-102' by Banamali Sharma, 'Pung' by Henba Tensuba, 'Lai Haroba' by Mahendra Sharma, 'Girl with Lotus' by Y. Gunindro Singh, an untitled Oil painting by L. Shamu Singh, 'Mridanga Dance' by Koolchandra M-them, 'Landscape' by Th.
		Mr Sharma described the exhibition as an attempt to nurture the talents of the region, who are fighting for creative exercise despite faced with numerous hurdles.
	www.mizzima.com /archives/news-in-2005/News-in-May/3-May-05-2.htm (734 words)

	Maya Weekend Summary Page
		This spring, Penn Museum's 24th Annual Maya Weekend presents "Maya Shamans, Magic Heroes and Spirit Healers," a program focused on shamans and religious leaders whose traditional medicine has long sustained the health and well-being of Maya society.
		A special exhibition of Maya textiles and painting by Winifred Godfrey was on display for the weekend, and a banquet of Latin cuisine followed the Saturday evening fiesta.
		Exciting discoveries from current excavations and new research on Maya cultural traditions highlighted the program which combined talks, films, and workshops on Maya writing, iconography, and textiles.
	www.precolumbian.org /mayaweekendsum.HTM (530 words)

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