The World of the Ancient Maya, John S. Henderson
The World of the Ancient Maya, John S. Henderson
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The World of the Ancient Maya
Second Edition

Author: John S. Henderson

Narrator: Nadia May

Unabridged: 10 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Nonfiction, History


Synopsis

The ancient Maya were the only fully literate preColombian people in the Americas. Superb scientists, they developed highly sophisticated mathematics and an intricate and accurate calendar system. In this newly updated work, Henderson uses deciphered Maya texts to explore the entire Maya cultural tradition.

About John S. Henderson

John S. Henderson received his PhD from Yale University and is now a professor of anthropology at Cornell University, where he teaches both anthropology and archaeology. He has had many years of experience in Mexico and the rest of Central America and has also conducted field work in the United States, Peru, Cyprus, and Turkey.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim

This is a complex and nuanced history on an academic level. If you want a thumbnail sketch or just a survey of Mayan history read something else. This book is dry and dense and packed with settlement info that contrasts the regions and time periods throughout Mayan world. It moves quick most of the......more

Goodreads review by Brandon

This is a comprehensive scholarly study on the Maya that would be great for students of the culture and history of the region and its people. The introductory and concluding essays were extremely good and captured a remarkable level of nuance in quite readable sizes. However, the main body of the te......more

Goodreads review by Dan

Interesting but incredibly dense. Without some grounding in Mesoamerican history (something I lack) then the benefit you'll be able to draw for Henderson might be limited.......more

Goodreads review by Aznable

As a review of our archeological and an anthropological knowledge of the ancient Maya, it serves more to highlight the lack of information that we have and the historical nuance of complex societies rather than present definitive research, which I found refreshingly honest. The discussion was much m......more