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Lost Civilizations - The Mayans by Stuart A. Kallen, 2000-09-01 You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mayan Soothsayer!: Fortunes You'd Rather Not Tell (You Wouldn't Want to...) by Rupert Matthews, 2007-09 Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization by June C. Nash, 2001-08-08 Ancient Mayan glyphs.(INTEGRATING the curriculum): An article from: Arts & Activities by Ellen McNally, 2009-11-01 The Fifth World: Our Galactic History And Ancient Secrets Revealed by A. J. Ferrara, 2008-08-13 Secrets in Stone : All About Maya Hieroglyphics by Laurie Coulter, 2001-10-01 Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya: Volume I: History, Comparison, and Synthesis Dusty Sandals: The Demise of the Mayan & Anasazi Civilization by Rod Beach, 2009-04-30 MAYA'S WORLD and MAYAN WORLD You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mayan Soothsayer! by Rupert Matthews, 2007-09 Mayan languages: Mayan languages. List of Mayan languages, Maya script, Mayan sign languages, Proto-Mayan, Classic Maya language, Maya codices Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico: Death-Defying Acts by Tamara L. Underiner, 2004-06-01 Popol Vuh -- Poopol Wuuj: K'ichee' -- español (Edición bilingüe) UFO Christianity Connection: Fact or Fiction by Fred R. David, 2010

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21. BBC - History - Ancient Apocalypse: The Fall Of The Mayan Civilisation
    Huge cities were swallowed up by the jungle, and mayan wisdom and knowledge waslost to mankind for centuries. What brought down this thriving society,  
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/maya_04.shtml
    
    Extractions: Print entire article Find out more Books The Great Maya Droughts: Water, Life, and Death by Richardson Gill (University of New Mexico Press, 2001) The Lords of Tikal: Rulers of an Ancient Maya City The Maya The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings by David Drew (Phoenix Mass Market, 2000) Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya Prehistoric Mesoamerica by Richard EW Adams (University of Oklahoma Press, 1996) Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya edited by Takeshi Inomata and Stephen D Houston (Westview Press, 2000)

22. History & Info - The Mayan Calendar
    At right is the ancient mayan Pyramid Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. In ancienttimes, the mayans had a tradition of a 360day year.  
    http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-mayan.html
    
    Extractions: The Maya calendar was adopted by the other Mesoamerican nations, such as the Aztecs and the Toltec, which adopted the mechanics of the calendar unaltered but changed the names of the days of the week and the months. An Aztec calendar stone is shown at right (below). The Maya calendar uses three different dating systems in parallel, the Long Count , the Tzolkin (divine calendar), and the Haab (civil calendar). Of these, only the Haab has a direct relationship to the length of the year. A typical Mayan date looks like this: 12.18.16.2.6, 3 Cimi 4 Zotz. 12.18.16.2.6 is the Long Count date. Did the Mayas Think a Year Was 365 Days? What is the Long Count? The Long Count is really a mixed base-20/base-18 representation of a number, representing the number of days since the start of the Mayan era. It is thus akin to the Julian Day Number. The basic unit is the kin (day), which is the last component of the Long Count. Going from right to left the remaining components are:

23. Mayan History
    Mayans seem to have entered Yucatan from the west. As usual with ancient nations, The Mayans history of the seventeenth century is chiefly one of  
    http://www.crystalinks.com/mayanhistory.html
    
    Extractions: The Maya are probably the best-known of the classical civilizations of Mesoamerica. Originating in the Yucatan around 2600 B.C., they rose to prominence around A.D. 250 in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, western Honduras, El Salvador, and northern Belize. Building on the inherited inventions and ideas of earlier civilizations such as the Olmec, the Mayans developed astronomy, calendrical systems and hieroglyphic writing. The Mayans were noted as well for elaborate and highly decorated ceremonial architecture, including temple-pyramids, palaces and observatories, all built without metal tools. They were also skilled farmers, clearing large sections of tropical rain forest and, where groundwater was scarce, building sizeable underground reservoirs for the storage of rainwater. The Mayans were equally skilled as weavers and potters, and cleared routes through jungles and swamps to foster extensive trade networks with distant peoples. Many people believe that the ancestors of the Mayans crossed the Bering Strait at least 20,000 years ago. They were nomadic hunter-gatherers. Evidence of settled habitation in Mexico is found in the Archaic period 5000-1500 BC - corn cultivation, basic pottery and stone tools. The first true civilization was established with the rise of the Olmecs in the Pre-Classic period 1500 BC -300 AD. The Olmecs settled on the Gulf Coast, and little is known about them.

24. Mayan Mathematics
    customs, temples, religious practices and history of the Mayans which his own Almost certainly the reason for base 20 arose from ancient people who  
    http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Mayan_mathematics.html
    
    Extractions: However, despite being sympathetic to the Mayan people, Landa abhorred their religious practices. To the devote Christian that Landa was, the Mayan religion with its icons and the Mayan texts written in hieroglyphics appeared like the work of the devil. He ordered all Mayan idols be destroyed and all Mayan books be burned. Landa seems to have been surprised at the distress this caused the Mayans. Nobody can quite understand Landa's feelings but perhaps he regretted his actions or perhaps he tried to justify them. Certainly what he then did was to write a book (1566) which describes the hieroglyphics, customs, temples, religious practices and history of the Mayans which his own actions had done so much to eradicate. The book was lost for many years but rediscovered in Madrid three hundred years later in 1869. Knowledge of the Mayan civilisation has been greatly increased in the last thirty years (see for example [3] and [8]). Modern techniques such as high resolution radar images, aerial photography and satellite images have changed conceptions of the Maya civilisation. We are interested in the Classic Period of the Maya which spans the period 250 AD to 900 AD, but this classic period was built on top of a civilisation which had lived in the region from about 2000 BC. A common culture, calendar, and mythology held the civilisation together and astronomy played an important part in the religion which underlay the whole life of the people. Of course astronomy and calendar calculations require mathematics and indeed the Maya constructed a very sophisticated number system. We do not know the date of these mathematical achievements but it seems certain that when the system was devised it contained features which were more advanced than any other in the world at the time.

25. Bilambil Primary School - Ancient Civilisations
    The ancient Maya. excellent !! The mayan Civilisation. - lots of information Mr Donn s ancient history Page, - THE ULTIMATE ancient history SITE !!  
    http://www.schools.ash.org.au/bilambil/ancient2.html
    
    Extractions: Aborigines probably arrived from South-East Asia by an ancient land bridge at least 50,000 years ago. Evidence found at Lake George suggests it may have happened as long ago as 130,000 years ! We know much about life in the past from the work of archaeologists who study civilisations of the past and palaeontologists who study ancient plant and animal life. Follow the links below to find out more about ancient civilisations. Ancient Egypt - EXCELLENT !! From British Museum. Ancient Egypt - EXCELLENT !! Written for schools. Secrets of the Pharaohs - EXCELLENT !! African Studies - Egypt - FREE CLIPART Hatshepsut's Revenge - explore through the game Little Horus Site - meet Little Horus and tour Ancient Egypt Pharaoh's Tomb Deep in the Tombs of Egypt - game with lots of links, outstanding !!

26. Ancient Civilisations Rome Greece Egypt Babylon Assyria Arkadia Carthage Inca Ma
    Tikal Architecture mayan Pyramids and Temples. ancient Civilisations Rome Internet ancient history Sourcebook Mysteries Of The Sacred Universe  
    http://www.poddys.com/ancient.htm

27. Ancient Maya
    Other Maya Resources on the Internet. Return to ancient history Projects ancient Maya history. ancient mayan Bat God. ancient mayan Cities.  
    http://www.logoi.com/links/nativeamericans/ancient_maya.html

28. Social Studies School Service Ancient History Web Site
    Most of the information on ancient mayan history is in the Maya Civilization area.The links to backgrounders lead to illustrated articles on mayan  
    http://catalog.socialstudies.com/c/@i4eGoEvdU__5U/Pages/ancientweb.html
    
    Extractions: Posters Email Address: Library Catalog Kits and MARC Records Introduction Using the major search engines to search for ancient history Web sites for the classroom may produce overwhelming results. For example, a search on AltaVista for the phrase "ancient history" will result in a lengthy list of over 37,000 Web pages. A better route may be to begin with a database of educational sites such as Awesome Library at http://www.awesomelibrary.org/ . Although the Awesome Library consists of 14,000 sites, each one is carefully reviewed, briefly annotated, organized under classroom subject headings, and searchable by keyword. The Ancient Civilizations section is neatly arranged by culture subtopics, including the Ancient Chinese, Ancient Greeks, and Ancient Mayans. Users can look for the best sites for teachers, kids, teens, parents, librarians, or the community depending on their individual needs. The sites listed below can aid students and teachers in uncovering images, articles, activities, virtual tours, timelines, and downloadable maps to supplement the study of ancient history. Mr. Donn's Ancient History Page

29. Catastrophism: Man, Myth And Mayhem In Ancient History And The Sciences
    Man, Myth Mayhem in ancient history and the Sciences While the intimateassociation of Venus with the mayan calendar is wellknown, only recently has  
    http://www.catastrophism.com/intro/search.cgi?zoom_query=mayan

30. Amsterdam Maya Projects & Internet Resources
    A tour of the ancient mayan city of Chichen Itza with some history and photographsof monuments taken January 1998.  
    http://www.internet-at-work.com/hos_mcgrane/maya/eg_maya_intro.html
    
    Extractions: Grade six projects from the Penn Charter School focusing on Ancient Civilizations. Topics include: culture, daily life, geography, industry, social organization and government. Other Maya Resources on the Web Mayan Culture Lost King of the Maya : PBS Online The companion Web site to "Lost King of the Maya," a PBS broadcast. The site follows the work of archeologists who are using new excavations and studying Maya hieroglyphs to interpret the early history of Copán, a Classic Maya site in northern Honduras. The website includes activities on reading Maya hieroglyphs and a map of the Maya world. (NB. Certain sections require Shockwave plug-in and Quicktime.) Mesoweb Web site from the Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute includes The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mesoamerica Life and Death in Ancient Mexico (understanding the system of sacrifice)

31. Kids Online Resources - History Pg 4
    Internet ancient history Sourcebook Hellenistic World. mayan Culture Learnabout the people, places and beliefs of the mayan people.  
    http://www.kidsolr.com/history/page4.html
    
    Extractions: Web KidsOLR Home Internet Safety Art/Music Geography ... Site Map History and Social Science Pg4 American/Government/Women Explorers World/Ancient/Castles Human Origins/Ancient ... War Human Origins Cradle Of Civilization - Welcome to the homeland of the Chaldeans of Beth Nahreen (Mesopotamia) From Holy Babylon to Mighty Assyria to the 21st Century, this is the journey of the builders of Mankind's Cradle of Civilization. Ancient skull challenges human origins - Fossil said to be more than 6 million years old. Exploring Ancient World Cultures - Why study ancient cultures? Fossil Hominids - The Evidence for Human Evolution. Outpost: Human Origins @ nationalgeographic.com. Peter Brown's, Palaeoanthropology

32. Ancient Civilizations Theme Page
    Students explore the collapse of four ancient civilizations (mayan, Ms.HosMcGrane s Grades 5 6 Social Studies Class ancient history Project Page  
    http://www.cln.org/themes/ancient.html
    
    Extractions: Ancient Civilizations Theme Page This "Theme Page" has links to two types of resources related to the study of Ancient Civilizations. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are also links to instructional materials (lesson plans) that will help teachers provide instruction in this theme. Please read our Alexander the Great Created by three high school students, this site has information about Alexander the Great, his life, his family, his conquests, and his battles. There are also links to other Alexander the Great sites and resources on the WWW. Ancient Civilizations Half a dozen multi-disciplinary lessons on Ancient Civilizations from Houghton Mifflin's Activity Search. Ancient Civilizations: Specific Civilizations Ancient World Web Over 400 links to Websites dealing with ancient civilizations, arranged alphabetically.

33. Ancient Civilizations - Internet Detectives - MMSD
    Archeology Of The ancient mayan Civilization http//www.jaguarsun.com/maya.html URL http//www.mmsd.org/tnl/detectives/history/ancient_Civilizations/  
    http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/detectives/History/Ancient_Civilizations/
    
    Extractions: http://www.ancientgreece.com/ The information on this site was created by Universal Artists, Inc. Three interesting facts we learned from this site are:1) The Persian Wars (500-449 BC) were conflicts between the Greek city-states and the Persian Empire.2) The Peloponnesian Ware (431-404 BC) was fought between the two leading city-states in ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta.3) There are three different kinds of columns in Greek architecture: Doric, ionic and Corinthian. Return to the Top The Ancient Greek World

34. Ancient Maya History
    ancient mayan history. This collapse triggered an upset in the mayan civilization.Apparently there was a struggle to fill the powervacuum left by the  
    http://www.mayaparadise.com/mayabege.htm
    
    Extractions: The story of the Maya begins during the Fourth Ice Age about 60,000 years ago. At this time the earth's ice caps were much larger than today, glaciers extended as far south as the central United States and no tropical climate existed anywhere on our planet. The so-called tropics were covered with savannah and grassland. So much water was trapped in the ice caps that the level of the sea was lower than today and a land bridge about 1,000 miles wide connecting Asia and North America at the Bering Strait was exposed. The first humans to inhabit the Americas came across this land bridge. At first, travel south was impeded by vast walls of ice but gradually, as the ice melted, people began to spread south. It is believed the first humans reached Central America about 15,000 years ago. The first identifiable culture, Clovis, existed around 10,000 BC. Some stone tools dating back to 9,000 BC have been found in Guatemala. Around this time, the Fourth Ice Age was drawing to a close and the climate was gradually warming up enabling humans to begin eating more plants and less meat. This change was underway around 8,000 BC.

35. Archaeology
    My mother passed on her interest in archaeology and ancient history to me as achild. Yamada mayan Languages WWW guide. North America  
    http://www.pibburns.com/archaeo.htm
    
    Extractions: Archaeology My mother passed on her interest in archaeology and ancient history to me as a child. Her primary interests lay in Ancient Egypt and the Near East. I still retain a deep interest in the history of these cultures as well as many others. I am particularly interested in the effects of catastrophes on peoples throughout history. Archaeological Regions Africa Egypt Alexandria, Egypt by Alaa K. Ashmawy offers an online guide to this historically important city. Includes information on the history of the city, a picture gallery, maps, links to other sites about Alexandria, and more. Ancient Egypt by Cynthia Snyder offers information about the pharaohs, buildings, religion, art, customs, and artifacts of ancient Egypt.

36. Ancient Mayan Gods
    ancient / Classical history Myth mayan Gods and Goddesses. © 2002 NS Gill.Africa America Asia Europe Encyclopedias Myth Index Ah Puch/Yum Kimi.  
    http://www.lost-civilizations.net/data/mayan-gods/ancient_20mayan_20gods.html

37. Ancient Mayan Rulers
    3, ancient Culture The history of the mayan rulers is portrayed on the The Maya writing system used to trace this ancient history was a precious .  
    http://www.lost-civilizations.net/data/mayan-society/ancient_20mayan_20rulers.ht

38. Graduate Thesis Writing: Archaeology And Anthropology (Ancient History) - Mayan,
    Subject Search for Archaeology and Anthropology (ancient history) / mayan, Incas,Aztec Cultures 8415 A Comparison of mayan and Aztec Art history.  
    http://www.graduatepapers.com/thesis/archaeology_and_anthropology_ancient_histor
    
    Extractions: Subject Search for: Archaeology and Anthropology (Ancient History) / Mayan, Incas, Aztec Cultures We carry over 20,000 term papers and research papers on so many topics we have categorized them by subject. Every term paper listed below is available for instant download after you purchase it. If you can't find a topic that suits your needs then order a customized term paper with all your requirements. This paper examines the history of the Classic Mayas. Topics addressed are: 1) The Classic Period and Urban Centralization, 2) The Region and the Mayan Biosphere, 3) Surviving the Rain Forests, 4) History and Religion, 5) Religion and Agriculture, 6) Urbanization, and 7) Horizons. 10 pgs. 42 f/c. 5b. This paper will argue, through an examination of the role of human sacrifice in the religious practices of the Aztec civilization, that human sacrifice should be interpreted primarily as a cultural activity that is firmly integrated into the signification and value system of the community as a whole. 11.5 pgs. 31 f/c.12b.

39. Mayan Art And Books On PreHispanic Archaeology And Ancient Artifacts Of Precolum
    Beautiful photographs of ancient Maya musical instruments (flutes and Architectural history of these societies is another educational aspect of studying  
    http://www.maya-art-books.org/
    
    Extractions: For 2005 FLAAR is initiating several new programs in Maya iconography in cooperation with the Museo Popol Vuh. Check back this summer for more information. If you wish to work on any of these projects, we accept volunteers from universities, museums, or individuals who have special talents. Sorry, no short time volunteers (has to be a reasonable period), no volunteers off the street (has to be arranged in advance). Archaeology, Maya art, Mayan pyramid architecture of Guatemala and Honduras with links to related sites and information on the role of digital imaging in archaeological research. This site also offers suggestions for books on the Olmec, Teotihuacan, Aztec, and Maya. Travel information for Mexico, Belize , Honduras, and Guatemala with lists of recommended hotels and Spanish language courses. Precolumbian Mayan art is a fascinating subject and this site offers all aspects of Mayan art, from jade to Mayan hieroglyphs and epigraphy. This site on Mayan art also explores iconography, the study of meaning in art. This site presented by Professor Nicholas Hellmuth, Francisco Marro

40. Essays On Archaeology And Anthropology (Ancient History) - Mayan, Incas, Aztec C
    Thesis Statements, Thesis Statement, Essay, Essay School, Narrative Essay, Thesis,Free Essay, Custom Essay, College Essay, How to write an essay.  
    http://www.amazingessays.com/essays/archaeology_and_anthropology_ancient_history
    
    Extractions: Subject Search for: Archaeology and Anthropology (Ancient History) / Mayan, Incas, Aztec Cultures Every essay and term paper listed below can be purchased and downloaded instantly. If you can't find your exact topic our writers can write one from scratch just for you. Our Web site is open 24-hours so you can order at any time. This paper examines the history of the Classic Mayas. Topics addressed are: 1) The Classic Period and Urban Centralization, 2) The Region and the Mayan Biosphere, 3) Surviving the Rain Forests, 4) History and Religion, 5) Religion and Agriculture, 6) Urbanization, and 7) Horizons. 10 pgs. 42 f/c. 5b. This paper will argue, through an examination of the role of human sacrifice in the religious practices of the Aztec civilization, that human sacrifice should be interpreted primarily as a cultural activity that is firmly integrated into the signification and value system of the community as a whole. 11.5 pgs. 31 f/c.12b.

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