Synopsis
One of humankind's enduring questions is why civilizations rise and fall. The end of the Maya civilization especially has prompted ceaseless speculation. In 1973, T. Patrick Culbert assembled a seminal volume (The Classic Maya Collapse) in which Maya specialists of the time addressed different aspects of the demise of Maya civilization, effectively redefining longstanding views of Maya demographics and urbanization, among other topics. Now, with the benefit of another 30 years of excavations and the continued decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics, The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands brings together a virtual Who's Who of a new generation of scholars to speak again on issues of the collapse from the authority of their own work, while also explicitly addressing the findings of their colleagues. The result is a coherent synthesis of the current state of knowledge about the Terminal Classic in the Maya lowlands -- from Honduras in the south to the Yucatán in the north -- that is destined to become a benchmark in Maya archaeology.
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About the Author
Don S. Rice is professor of anthropology and Director of the Center for Archaeological Investigations at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Prudence Rice is professor and chair of anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Arthur Demarest is Ingram Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University.
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