Word: bonampak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each new discovery seems to ignite a new chain reaction of revised conclusions about the Mayans. Archaeologists have found in Bonampak and Palenque, Chiapas State, Mexico, evidence that they were not the peace-loving esthetes (v. the later, barbaric Aztecs) that they had been labeled earlier, for their murals show them as cruel, bloody soldiers. But the Mayans deserve their original reputation as a people of high culture. Their sculpture and architecture glow with color, intricate detail, lively movement and full-dimensional symbolism (see color pages...