Word: mayas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ANCIENT MAYA (520 pp.) - Sylvanus G. Morley-Sfanford University Press...
...haunted and deserted for centuries, the mysterious limestone cities of the Maya crouch in the Yucatan bush and the Guatemalan-Honduran jungles. They were already in ruins when Hernando Cortes marched into Mexico 400 years ago to teach Montezuma's Aztecs a Spanish lesson. The names of those deserted cities echo with a kind of distant, mournful music: Tikal, Copan, Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Mayapan...
Sylvanus G. Morley of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who has worked in the Maya country for 40 years, is the man who discovered some of its most famous monuments and directed Carnegie's elaborate restorations in Yucatan. Even he cannot unravel all the tangles of the Maya past, but this patient, expert, profusely illustrated book is by far the best general survey of the mystery as a whole: who were the ancient Maya, how did their civilization arise, why did it fall...
Because they have preserved a rather large body of old Maya tradition and rites, the Lacandons are of continuing interest to professional ethnologists, as well as to a continuing stream of travelers. ... In 1940, Corporal Gordon Gibler and I lived awhile with them to investigate some murders perpetrated on the group of half-breeds who seasonally enter their area to collect chicle, from which chewing gum is manufactured...
...course, Anthropology 819 (hf)., is a review of ancient middle American cultures and includes the Maya, Toltec, and Aztec civilizations, together with a study of the present aboriginal population of the region. The course will make use of the archaeological collection in the Peabody Museum...