The Fall of the Ancient Maya Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse

David Webster

ISBN 10: 0500051135 / ISBN 13: 9780500051139

Editore: Thames and Hudson, 2002

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*** BOOK in clean tight and unmarked condition. pp343/4 folded and creased. Brown boards with gilt title on spine, 368 pages including index, notes and bibliography, 84 illustrations. *** DUST JACKET in very good condition, not price clipped, very slight shelfwear, now Trimsleeve protected. *** CONTENTS: The author examines what went wrong with the Maya civilisation - not surprisingly acrimony, greed and over exploitation of arable land played a large part in their downfall. Size: 240x160mm.

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• Titolo: The Fall of the Ancient Maya Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse
• Editore: Thames and Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0500051135
• ISBN 13: 9780500051139
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good

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Riassunto

An account of the mysterious fall of the ancient Maya civilization evaluates current theories and myths, citing sixteenth-century evidence of a residual population and offering a portrait of its Late Classic society beset by overly ambitious nobles, wars, and an exploding population that could not be sustained by its scanty agriculture.

Informazioni sull?autore

David Webster is Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University.