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 Ltd, 2002

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1st UK edition. Boards are clean. Content is clean and bright with light spotting on the outer edge pages. Good DJ with some edge wear. Codice articolo 9999-9995265111

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Titolo: The Fall of the Ancient Maya: Solving the ...

Casa editrice: Thames and Hudson Ltd

Data di pubblicazione: 2002

Legatura: Rilegato

Condizione: 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.