This book traces the evolution of Maya civilization through the Pre-Columbian era, a span of some 2,500 years from the origins of complex society within Mesoamerica to the end of the Pre-Columbian world with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. The sixth edition presents new archaeological evidence and historical studies and offers the most extensive revisions of this clas...(展开全部)

The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya by experts Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston. In this new edition, this classic has been updated by distilling the latest scholarship for the general reader and student. This edition incorporates the most recent archaeological and epigraphic findings, which continue to proceed at a f...(展开全部)

"The gold standard of introductory books on the ancient Maya."— Expedition The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the New World’s greatest ancient civilization. In these pages Michael D. Coe distills a lifetime’s scholarship for the general reader and student. The eighth edition incorporates the latest archaeological and epigraphic re...(展开全部)

迈克尔·D. 科（Michael D. Coe） 耶鲁大学人类学名誉教授和耶鲁大学皮博迪自然历史博物馆名誉馆长。他的著作包括《玛雅通史》《墨西哥》和《破解玛雅密码》等。 斯蒂芬·休斯顿（Stephen Houston） 布朗大学社会科学教授，因在玛雅文化研究和推广方面具有杰出贡献，获危地马拉总统授予该国最高荣誉格查尔勋章。他的最新著作是《天才通道：经典玛雅艺术和文字中的年轻人》。

The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya by experts Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston. In this new edition, this classic has been updated by distilling the latest scholarship for the general reader and student. This edition incorporates the most recent archaeological and epigraphic findings, which continue to proceed at a f...(展开全部)

迈克尔·D. 科（Michael D. Coe） 耶鲁大学人类学名誉教授和耶鲁大学皮博迪自然历史博物馆名誉馆长。他的著作包括《玛雅通史》《墨西哥》和《破解玛雅密码》等。 斯蒂芬·休斯顿（Stephen Houston） 布朗大学社会科学教授，因在玛雅文化研究和推广方面具有杰出贡献，获危地马拉总统授予该国最高荣誉格查尔勋章。他的最新著作是《天才通道：经典玛雅艺术和文字中的年轻人》。

"The gold standard of introductory books on the ancient Maya."— Expedition The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the New World’s greatest ancient civilization. In these pages Michael D. Coe distills a lifetime’s scholarship for the general reader and student. The eighth edition incorporates the latest archaeological and epigraphic re...(展开全部)

Presented here for the first time is a compendium of one hundred hieroglyphs that are also building blocks of ancient Maya painting and sculpture. Organized thematically, the symbols touch on many facets of the Maya world, from the natural environment animals, plants, the heavens to the metaphysical landscape of gods, myths and rituals. Using over five hundred line drawings and...(展开全部)

Copan in modern Honduras was one of the great cities of the Classic Maya. Abandoned to the rain forest for nearly a thousand years, it was rediscovered in the early 1800s. Now, two centuries later, an international team of scholars is solving the puzzle of Copan and the ancient Maya. William Fash, himself one of the key contributors to the recent breakthroughs, describes how de...(展开全部)