The World of the Ancient Maya
Second Edition

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

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

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

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