Article: Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya: Theory, Comparison, and Synthesis, vol. 1.(Book Review)

Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya. Volume I, Theory, Comparison, and Synthesis. Edited by Takeshi Inomata and Stephen Houston. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 292. $30.00.)

There has been general and scholarly interest in the recent decipherment of the hieroglyphs of the Classic Maya (circa 250-1000 C.E.) for what they reveal about the history and society of this pre-Columbian civilization of Mexico and Central America. This volume brings together a set of articles investigating Maya courtly life, using archaeological, epigraphic, iconographic, and colonial written sources. This book is, however, only the first part of an attempt to present an ...

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