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SPECIAL SECTION: NEW DIALOGUES ABOUT ANCIENT MAYA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2016

Stephen Houston  and
Chris Scarre
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Most people think of Maya civilisation, if they do at all, while on vacation. A daytrip from a beach takes them to ruins nearby, crowded with tourists in correct holiday gear. In the recent past, others might have grown anxious about the portentous significance of the year 2012. Maya glyphs, so the hucksters affirmed, predicted a cascade of dire events, not one of which (predictably) has come to pass. Then there are those living in Mayaland itself, an area embracing parts of Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and all of Belize. Their personal identities stem in part from a sense of direct inheritance, extending to rights of ownership and interpretation.

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Antiquity , Volume 90 , Issue 350 , April 2016 , pp. 425
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2016 

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