Naachtun: A Lost City of the Maya

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• 1. An abandoned city
• 2. Wartime affiliations
• 3. History of investigations
• 4. Gathering the evidence
• 5. The Kingdom of Masuul
• 6. Traces of ritual
• 7. Changing allegiances
• 8. Defensive fortifications
• 9. Find out more
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Books

The Maya by Michael Coe (Thames and Hudson, 1999)

The Lords of Tikal: Rulers of an Ancient Maya City by Peter Harrison, Colin Renfrew and Jeremy A Sabloff (Thames and Hudson, 2000)

A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by Linda Schele and David Freidel (William Morrow, 1990)

How to Read Maya Hieroglyphics by John Montgomery (Hippocrene Books, 2001)

The Fall of the Ancient Maya: Solving the Mystery of the Mayan Collapse by David Webster (Thames and Hudson, 2002)

About the author

Kathryn Reese-Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She has worked in the Maya area for 20 years. Her research has focused on the Late Preclassic period (400 BC-AD 250), as well as on Classic (AD 250-900) Maya political organisation. Her books include Landscape and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica (2001) edited with Rex Koontz and Annabeth Headrick. Among her most recent publications is 'Ritual Circuits as Key Elements in Maya Civic Center Design', in Heart of Creation: The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele.

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