ANTHROP 2VV3 Lecture : Introduction to the Maya
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ex: stela of one the kings of copan, 18 rabbit very elaborate head dress and. Tikal ruled by a dynasty of greater than 30 kings: history of more than seven centuries, one of the most well known mayan places, abandoned ca. 900 ad (approximately 1100 years ago), over a period of decades the people stopped building new palaces and maintaining the existing ones: stopped writing hieroglyphics, first seen by europeans in the 19th c. City of palenque: one of the maya sites with entire walls inscribed with hieroglyphics telling the history of royal families, temple of the inscriptions on top of a platform, stone relief carving on the inside of doorways, etc. Tikal is one of scores of jungle cities. The population of tikal is estimated to be about 100-150 thousand, which is very large for a jungle city and for the time period.