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The following guide provides Web site links, a list of selected
books, and access to online periodical articles about this subject.
The Web site links have been researched, evaluated, and annotated by
Rio Hondo College Librarians. The Librarians have specifically
selected these Web sites to meet the research needs of Rio Hondo
College students
Web Site Links
Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations http://www.angelfire.com/ca/humanorigins/
Subtitled Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Aztec, this site includes
information about these ancient civilizations' writing systems,
governments, and religions. There is also information about the
Mayan calendar, Maya and Zapotec political organization, definitions,
and related links.
The
Classic Maya Calendar and Day Numbering System
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/maya.html
This site, an article by Dr. David L. Mills, professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware, provides
readable yet technical information about the Mayan calendar,
includes charts and a link to Dr. Mills' table for correlating our
present day (Gregorian) calendar and the Mayan calendar, and offers
a short list of references.
Collapse
:
Why Do Civilizations Fall? http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/
Developed by Annenberg/CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
Exhibits, this intriguing site investigates the decline of four
ancient civilizations: Maya, Mesopotamia, Chaco Canyon, and Mali
& Songhai,
and links to useful items on
Mayan art and archaeology.
Function and Meaning in Classic Mayan Architecture
http://www.doaks.org/HOFUctn.html
Full text of an anthology discussing many facets of Mayan buildings
including design, construction, ritual architecture, houses,
iconography, and more with index.
(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Law in Mexico Before the Conquest
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/rare/aztec.html
This site explores Aztec and Mayan law through images and brief
overviews of topics such as warfare, courts, attorneys and
judges, property law, family law, punishment, drunkenness, and
slavery. It includes a small collection of annotated links on
Aztec, Mayan, and other Mesoamerican civilizations. From the
Jamail Center for Legal Research, University of Texas School of Law.
The Maya Site http://maya.hum.sdu.dk/
Containing more than 40,000 entries, this is a "searchable
database composed of the data published in John Dienhart's 3-volume
work, The Mayan Languages: a comparative vocabulary (Odense
University Press, 1989)." Search by English keyword, Mayan
form, date and notes, and Mayan language. It includes an
annotated bibliography and one listed by date and information about
the symbol set used. From the University of Southern Denmark.
Merle Greene
Robertson's Rubbings of Maya Sculpture http://www.mesoweb.com/rubbings/index.html
Features photographs of the paper rubbings of ancient Mayan
relief sculpture -- these rubbings all the painstaking work of
famous Mayan scholar Dr. Merle Greene Robertson. Clink on
"Rubbings" to begin viewing the many photographs, all with
brief descriptions of the sculpture featured in respective rubbings,
along with detailed biographical narrative about Dr. Robertson's
work in Guatemala.
Mesoweb
http://www.mesoweb.com/
Subtitled An Exploration of Mesoamerican Cultures, this site is
"devoted to ancient Mesoamerica and its cultures: the Olmec, Maya,
Aztec, Teotihuacano, Toltec, Mixtec, Zapotec and others," yet
specializes in Mayan history and
presents information about an archeological dig and restoration
project at Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico. Photos, map,
animations, videos (requiring QuickTime), rubbings of Maya
sculptures, and an illustrated encyclopedia are available as well as
the text of the first Palenque roundtable: a conference on art,
iconography, and dynastic history of Palenque. There are
related links. A joint venture of the Pre-Columbian Art
Research Institute (PARI) and Mexico's Instituto Nacional de
Antropologia y Historia (INAH).
Voice of the Shuttle (VoS) http://vos.ucsb.edu/
The Voice of the Shuttle (VoS) began in late 1994 as an introduction to
the Web for humanists at the University of California, Santa Barbara and
became publicly accessible on March 21, 1995.
VoS is woven by Alan Liu and a development team in the University of
California Santa Barbara, English Department.
Worldviews
: Maya Ceramics From the Palmer Collection
http://www.umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum/Online%20Exhibits/Worldviews/WorldViewHome.htm
Virtual exhibit of the Palmer Collection from the Hudson Museum
at the University of Maine. Includes a clickable display of
over forty pre-Columbian objects collected by William P. Palmer, III
during the 1960s and early 1970s. It also has a map of where
the items were found and discussions related to Maya civilization,
writing and symbolism, and iconographer and epigrapher observations
regarding the Maya beliefs about the underworld, the cosmos, the
natural world and palace of life.
Online Databases (Rio Hondo Students only)
Britannica Online http://search.eb.com/
Use Britannica Online to search an Internet
directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected,
rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Books
The following books can be located in the
Rio Hondo College Library.
Reference Books (2nd
floor)
Non-circulating:
Ancient Mexico & Central America : archaeology and culture
history
Call number: Ref F1219.E85 2004
Atlas del México prehispánico : mapas de periodos, regiones y
culturas
Call number: Ref F1219.S65 2000x
World Book Encyclopedia
Call number: Ref AE5.W55 2007
Suggested Subject Headings
For additional titles on this topic at Rio Hondo, click on the
following Library of Congress subject headings:
Human ecology--Yucatán Peninsula
Mayas--Social life and customs
Media
The following
media can be located in the Rio Hondo College Library,
to be viewed in the Library.
The Fall of the Maya
Call number: Video 000425
Until 1965, the ancient Maya were thought to have been a mysterious
but peaceful people governed by astronomer-priests. But then Russian
linguist Yuri Knorosov cracked the phonetic code of Maya
hieroglyphics. Today, researchers are revealing stories of Maya
blood sacrifice, uncovering a world far different from their
expectations. This program shows how, from excavations deep in the
Honduran jungle to the most recently interpreted hieroglyphic
writings, the story is being unraveled of the rise and fall of the
Maya.
The Aztec & the Maya
Call number: Video 000912
The Mayan civilization enjoyed a glorious period from 325 AD to 925
AD. Skilled potters, weavers and farmers, the magnificent temples at
Chichen Itza and Copan are among the legacies of a peace-loving
people. The Aztecs of Mexico are remembered for their architecture,
sculpture, art and for their religious rituals which included large
scale human sacrifice.
Maya, lords of the jungle
Call number: Video 000218
Archaeological work on the Mayan civilization in Central America is
revealing new facts about Mayan history, religion, agriculture,
social structure, and art.
Mystery of the Maya
Call number: DVD 0016
Explores the culture, science, and history of the Mayans. Discusses
their work with architecture, math, calendrics, writing systems, and
buildings.
Palenque : the walls of Mayan history
Call number: DVD 0078
Using the first know settlement of the Mayan culture as a
setting, this program illuminates several important rites and
rituals of the Mayas who lived there through the interpretations
of the many inscriptions found on the walls of its main
buildings.
Articles
The Rio Hondo College Library
provides online access to full-text articles through our online databases
http://library.riohondo.edu/online_databases/index.htm. Please note: you must be a Rio Hondo College
student, faculty, staff or board member to use these services.
The 2 sample searches
below is from the
ProQuest database. Use
Advanced Search and type each tern in a separate box:.
1. SUB(mayan civilization)
2.
SU(Mayan
civilization) AND SU(culture)
Researched and evaluated by:
M. Hogarth, Librarian 2/2000
last update: D. Banton, Librarian 10/2007