Thompson ’ s focus on the non-calendric hieroglyphs produced the Carnegie monograph Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: Introduction.

* Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing Glyph Drawings from Landa's Relación: A Caveat to the Investigator by George Stuart, Center for Maya Research

* Codex and Maya Writing

Twenty years later, the workshop expanded into what is known as the Maya Meetings at Texas, and includes a symposium of research papers by major scholars and the Forum on Hieroglyphic Writing.

Ancient art was largely, but not entirely, based on the nine great ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, China, Rome, India, the Celtic peoples, and Maya.

It has been proposed that Maya civilization | Maya sites such as Uxmal were built in accordance with astronomical alignments. The approach in the New World, where anthropologists began to consider more fully the role of astronomy in Amerindian civilizations, was markedly different.

The outcome of the trip to Mexico was Whorf's sketch of Milpa Alta Nahuatl, published only after his death, and an article on a series of Aztec pictograms found at the Tepozteco monument at Tepoztlán, Morelos in which he noted similarities in form and meaning between Aztec and Maya day signs.

Whorf argued that it was exactly the reluctance to apply linguistic analysis of Maya languages that had held the decipherment back.

Although Whorf's approach to understanding the Maya script is now known to have been misguided, his central claim that the script was phonetic and should be deciphered as such was vindicated by Yuri Knorozov's syllabic decipherment of Mayan writing in the 1950s.

The monument was created by Maya Lin who created the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D. C.

Documents in Maya hieroglyphs stated chocolate was used for ceremonial purposes, in addition to everyday life.

In Maya religion, the dwarfism | dwarf was an embodiment of the Maya maize god | Maize God's Maya religion # Goblins and dwarfs | helpers at Maya maize god # Cosmological creation myth | creation

While the expedition was stopped in the Chontal Maya capital of Itzamkanac, known as Acalan in Nahuatl, Cortés had Cuauhtémoc executed for allegedly conspiring to kill him and the other Spaniards.

The Guatemalan region of Mesoamerica was dominated by the Maya civilization ( 2, 000 BC – AD 250 ), before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century ; although most of the great, Classic-era ( AD 250 – 900 ) Maya cities of the Petén Basin region, in the northern lowlands of Guatemala, had been abandoned by the year AD 1, 000 ; however, the states in the Guatemalan central highlands, flourished until the arrival of Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish Conquistador who began subjugating the Indian states of Guatemala in 1525.

Of these, El Mirador, Tikal, Nakbé, Tintal, Xulnal and Wakná are the largest in the Maya world, Such size was manifested not only in the extent of the site, but also in the volume or monumentality, especially in the construction of immense platforms to support large temples.

In the later Maya civilization, the jaguar was believed to facilitate communication between the living and the dead and to protect the royal household.

La Malinche ( also known as Malinali or Malintzin ) was born in 1496, in a then " frontier " region between the Aztec Empire and the Maya states of the Yucatán Peninsula ).

Now an inconvenient stepchild, the girl was sold or given to Maya slave-traders from Xicalango, an important commercial town further south and east along and hard the coast.

Malinalli was introduced to the Spanish in April 1519, when she was among twenty slave women given by the Chontal Maya of Potonchan ( in the present-day state of Tabasco ) after the Spaniards defeated them in battle.

Maya Lin, a Chinese American, was born in Athens, Ohio.

Her parents immigrated to the United States from China in 1949 and settled in Ohio in 1958, one year before Maya Lin was born.

In 1994, she was the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision.

The site was a hilltop palacio home for an elite Maya family, and though most major construction dates to the Classic period, evidence of continuous habitation has been dated to as far back as far as 1200 BCE during the Early Middle Formative period ( Early Middle Preclassic ), making Cahal Pech one of the oldest recognizably Maya sites in Western Belize.

The earliest inscriptions which are identifiably Maya date to the 3rd century BC, and writing was in continuous use until shortly after the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores in the 16th century.

Some include the classical Mesoamerican cultures, still in use today in the modern indigenous languages of their descendants, namely the Nahuatl and Mayan languages ( see Maya numerals ).

This is the case in Yaxchilán, a Maya city where even warfare implications have been studied linked with obsidian use and its debris.

The understanding of the Maya that resulted in the use of the 2011 date and the use of the " worlds " concept is due to the influence of Frank Waters's 1975 book Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness, whose elaborate cosmology is selectively utilized in the framework of the Shadowrun universe.

The use of " Mayan " is restricted to referring to an aspect of their languages ; " Maya " is the adjectival form preferred when referring to non-linguistic aspects.

* Maya script-the writing system in use by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization

* Article on the use of the temazcal or sweatbath among the Tzeltal people | Tzeltal-Tzotzil Maya of Chiapas, Mexico

* The case of the Maya and other people's use of Mimosa tenuifolia, including many other such cases in general are discussed at GRAIN

The essentials of the Maya calendar are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout the region, dating back to at least the 5th century BCE.

The Maya most likely did not use metallurgy because of a lack of technique, which may have been due to the fact that yellow in Maya ideology represent dying plant life and crop failure.

The Maya could use crown lands set aside as reservations, but these people lacked communal rights.

The immigrants brought with them Mestizo culture: Spanish and Yucatec Maya language, Catholicism and Maya folklore, the use of alcalde, their family structure and way of life.

To bring life to a God pot the Lacandón would use small pebbles they found at Maya ruins that they considered sacred.

Back then and today, the Maya use a blowgun to hunt birds and small animals with spherical dry seeds and clay pellets.

Decorated ceramic incense burners were in general use in Mesoamerica, particularly in the large Central-Mexican city of Teotihuacan ( 100-600 AD ) and in the many kingdoms belonging to the Maya civilization.

* Article on the use of the temazcal among the Tzeltal people | Tzeltal-Tzotzil Maya of Chiapas, Mexico

* Obsidian use in Maya and Olmec Cultures

Prudence M. Rice provides a look at what the current Guatemalan Maya use today for clay.

There is a significant amount of confusion as to the correct terminology to use — Maya or Mayan — and the meaning of these words with reference to contemporary or precolumbian peoples, to Mayan peoples in different parts of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and to languages or peoples.

Further, confusion of the term Maya / Mayan as ethnic label occurs because Maya women who use traditional dress autoidentify by the ethnic term mestiza and not Maya.