Skip to Content


  Archaeology: Periods and Cultures: Mesoamerican: Maya

Maya (Subscribe)

Links

Tracking Maya Regional Organization

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/backdirt/Spr01/maya.html

Using a community centered perspective to examine how rural Maya affected and were affected by political changes.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

The Maya Ruins Page

http://mayaruins.com/

Photos from Uxmal, Labna, Sayil, Chacmultun, Becan, Xpujil, Tikal, Xunantunich, Lamanai, Kohunlich, Chicanna, Edzna, and Dzibilnocac.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

Studying the Archaeology of Performance Among the Ancient Maya

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/backdirt/fall01/julia.html

The project currently focuses on performance among the ancient Maya, with comparisons to other cultures and time periods increasingly included.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

Mundo Maya Online

http://www.mayadiscovery.com/

Online version of Mundo Maya Magazine, specializing in the Maya culture. Available in English and Spanish. Detailed articles on archeological topics.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

Muddy Mayan Mystery Made Clearer By Researchers Working In The Bajos

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020724080415.htm

From ScienceDaily, University of Cincinnati professors found evidence of a major environmental transformation that helps to explain a puzzle that has stumped Maya scholars for decades.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

Mayavase.com

http://www.mayavase.com/

Precolumbian portfolio features a collection of artifacts and sites from the ancient Americas, and a database archive of rollout and still photographs of vases, plates, and bowls. Find hints and helps to search the database.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

Mayan Collection

http://www.mayancollection.com/

Photographs, rubbings, and illustrations, featuring rubbings of stelae from 1970-71 in Guatemala; views of monuments published in 1844 by Catherwood.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

Mayan Civilization

http://www.indians.org/welker/maya.htm

Glenn Welker describes the locations and development of Maya civilization. Michael Lemonick gives a history of the related archeological research.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

Maya Ruins

http://americanindian.net/maya.html

Photographs and descriptions by Phil Konstantin. Includes Chichen Itza, Kabah, Uxmal, Labna, Xlapak, Sayil, Palenque, Xpujil, Becan and Museo de la Cultura Maya.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

Maya Motifs

http://www.mayamotifs.com/

Art featuring designs from the Tzolkin, the ritual calendar of the Maya.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

Maya Art Pages

http://home.epix.net/~miser17/art.html

Two photo collections of art from the classic period (400-800 CE), one of vases and the other of stellae at Copan, Honduras.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

Maya Architecture: Evolution, Structure and Diversity of a Civilization

http://www.mayafiles.com/

Virtual exhibition on Maya architecture with information, photos, plans, and models.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

Maya Archaeology

http://www.maya-archaeology.org/

Facts and artifacts relative to Mayan archaeology, prehispanic pyramid architecture, Latin America, Mesoamerica, featuring Olmec jade, stelae and sculpture at Copan, and showing how pre-Columbian art can be reproduced aided by new digital technology.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

Intense Droughts Blamed for Mayan Collapse

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3502

From New Scientist, Mayan civilization collapsed following a series of intense droughts, suggests the most detailed climatic study to date.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

Foxx Archive

http://www.foxxarchive.com/

Features a photo gallery of Jeffrey Jay Foxx, ethnographic photographer. Includes a biography, a list of exhibitions and books, and related links.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

European Association of Mayanists

http://www.wayeb.org/

Formed by young scholars searching for academic contacts. Links professionals, students and amateurs for conferences, information exchange, and workshops. Links, bibliography, publications, collection inventories, news, and conference information.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It

Building a Geographic Information System of Ancient Maya Settlement

http://mayagis.smv.org/

Project by Walter R. T. Witschey and Clifford T. Brown, to study settlement patterns: includes research papers and maps.

Review It Rate It Bookmark It