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The Ancient Maya

Name: The Ancient Maya
Author: Robert J. Sharer
ISBN: 9780804721301

by Robert J. Sharer

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“As readable as it is comprehensive, this volume is an admirable and up-to-date account of the ancient Maya.”—Scientific American

“The most comprehensive and most lavishly illustrated book on its subject.”—Journal of Latin American Studies

"Comprehensive synthesis of ancient Maya scholarship. Extensive summary of the archaeology of the Maya world provides the historical context for a detailed topical synthesis of chronological and geographic variability within the Maya cultural tradition"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

About the Author, Robert J. Sharer

Robert J. Sharer is Shoemaker Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Curator of the American Section at the university's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. He is the author of Quirigua: A Classic Maya Center and Its Sculpture and Everyday Life in Maya Civilization, as well as two previous editions of The Ancient Maya. Loa P. Traxler is a Research Scientist in the American Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.