book: Ruins of the Past: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands (Mesoamerican...

books:


	• Ruins of the Past: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands (Mesoamerican Worlds) University Press of Colorado, 2008 - 364 pages view larger image
	for more information click here

From the Preclassic to the present, Maya peoples have continuously built, altered, abandoned, and re-used structures, imbuing them with new meanings at each transformation. Ruins of the Past is the first volume to focus on how previously built structures in the Maya Lowlands were used and perceived by later peoples, exploring the topic through concepts of landscape, place, and memory. The collection, as Wendy Ashmore points out in her foreword, offers "a stimulating, productive, and fresh set of inferences about ancient Maya cognition of their own past."

for more information click here