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...ANCIENT MAYA (520 pp.) - Sylvanus G. Morley-Sfanford University Press...
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...
Archaeologist Morley thinks that the Maya, rather than the Inca, were the first of the New World people to cultivate corn. Out of this skill and the sedentary rooted life it led to, they evolved their extraordinary culture. Just when the Maya flowering began he can merely guess at, but by the dawn of the Christian era there was probably already a considerable Maya civilization in what is now the Guatemala Department...
...Morley believes that the great Mayan cities were slowly abandoned, one after the other, principally because of crop failures, partly because of epidemics, social disintegration, wars. The last great city founded was Mayapan, about A.D. 1000. It was sacked by local rivals some 450 years later. Within another century Cortes and his Spaniards appeared. Their conquest of the Maya lands was difficult and protracted, for the Maya were degenerate but they were stubborn...
Johnson schooled Neighbors Ferro & Morley for months before letting PM and the syndicate in on his plans. He still sits in on story conferences-and shares in profits from the strip-but Barnaby takes little of his time. By now, says Ferro, "it's all done by telepathy." Freed from his daily grind, Johnson is writing a book about Barnaby for publication in the fall. Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley, a play adapted by Johnson and Jerome Chodorov from the strip, will open in Wilmington next week, may get to Broadway in the fall...