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Archaeoastronomy
The Sky in Mayan Literature
by Anthony F. Aveni
Skywatchers : A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico
by Anthony F. Aveni
Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path
by David Freidel, Linda Schele, Joy Parker
Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
by Susan Milbrath Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos
by Prudence Rice
Astronomy and the Maya Calendar Correlation
by Paul Campbell
Articles
Although these are not available through Amazon.com, you might be able to find them on Google or eBay.
1980 "The Sun, Moon and Venus at Uxmal", American Antiquity 45: 79-86
Lamb, Weldon
Summary: Astronomy evidence from Uxmal
1990 America's Ancient Skywatchers. National Geographic, Vol. 177, No. 3, March 1990, pp76-107
by Carlson, John
Summary: An article explaining the cosmologies of multiple Pre-Columbian cultures. John Carlson is one of the foremost authorities on ancient Maya astronomy.
1978 "Maya Numeration, Computation and Calendarical Astronomy," Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Volume 15, supplement 1, Charles Scribners Sons, New York.
Lounsbury, Floyd
Summary: An article describing the nature of Maya mathematics from one of the foremost authorities.
Chiapas
Living Maya
by Walter F. Morris, Jr. and Jeffrey J. Foxx
Four Creations: An Epic Story of the Chiapas Maya
by Gary Gossen
Life, Ritual, and Religion Among the Lacandon Maya
by R. Jon McGee
Yaxchilan: The design of a Maya ceremonial city
by Carolyn Elaine Tate
The Zinacantecos of Mexico: A Modern Mayan Way of Life
by Evon Zartman Vogt
The Mystery of the Maya: Uncovering the Lost City of Palenque
by Peter Lourie
The Last Lords of Palenque: The Lacandon Mayas of the Mexican Rain Forest
by Victor Perea, Robert D. Bruce
Mayan Tales from Zinacantan: Dreams and Stories from the People of the Bat
by Robert Laughlin and Carol Karasik
Contact Period
The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom
by Grant D. Jones
Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule: Time and History on a Colonial Frontier
by Grant D. Jones
Ambivalent Conquests : Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 (Cambridge Latin American Studies)
by Inga Clendinnen, Alan Knight
Yucatan Before and After the Conquest
by Diego De Landa
General Maya
The Maya, Seventh Edition (Ancient Peoples and Places)
by Michael D. Coe
Ancient Mexico and Central America: Archaeology and Culture History
by Susan Toby Evans
The Lords of Tikal: Rulers of an Ancient Maya City
by Peter Harrison
Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala
edited by Gordon Willey
Prehistoric Mesoamerica
by Richard E. W. Adams
Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya
by Simon Martin, Nikolai Grube
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
by Linda Schele, David Freidel
The CODE OF KINGS: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs
by Linda Schele, Peter Mathews, Macduff Everton, Justin Kerr
The Ancient Maya
by Robert J. Sharer
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1
by John L. Stephens
The Major Gods of Ancient Yucatan (Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology)
by Karl Andreas Taube
Turquoise Trail: Native American Jewelry and Culture of the Southwest
by Carol Karasik
Time and the Highland Maya
by Barbara Tedlock
Popol Vuh : The Definitive Edition Of The Mayan Book Of The Dawn Of Life And The Glories Of
by Dennis Tedlock
Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Mayas
by Allen Christenson
The Fall of the Ancient Maya: Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse
by David Webster
Heart of Creation : The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
by Andrea Stone
The Maya and Teotihuacan: Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
by Geoffrey E. Braswell
Scribes, Warriors, and Kings: The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya, Revised Edition
by William L. Fash
Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest
by Nikolai Grube, Eva Eggebrecht
Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya
by Simon Martin, Kathleen Berrin, Mary Miller
Ancient Maya Political Economies
by Marilyn A. Masson
The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation
by Arthur A. Demarest, Prudence M. Rice, Don S. Rice
Ancient Maya Commoners
by Jon C. Lohse, Fred, Jr. Valdez, Fred Valdez
The Olmecs: America's First Civilization
by Richard Diehl
Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico
edited by Elizabeth Benson, Beatriz de la Fuente, and Maria Castro Leal
An Archaeological Guide to Central and Southern Mexico
by Joyce Kelly
Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs
by Michael Coe and Rex Knootz
Hieroglyphics
Breaking the Maya Code
by Michael D. Coe
Reading the Maya Glyphs
by Michael D. Coe, Mark Van Stone
Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook
by John F. Harris, Stephen K. Stearns
The New Catalog of Maya Heiroglyphs: The Classic Period Inscriptions (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
by Martha J. Macri, Matthew George Looper, Martha Macri
The Dresden Codex: Drawings of the Pages (Mayan Studies : No 3)
by J. Antonio Villacorta
Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs
by John Montgomery
Maya Art
Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period (Duke University Museum of Art)
by Dorie Reents-Budet
Maya Art and Architecture (World of Art)
by Mary Ellen Miller
Art of the Maya Scribe
by Michael Coe
Maya Calendar and Mathematics
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
by Charles Seife, Matt Zimet
Native American Mathematics
by Michael P. Closs
Maya Religion
The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art
by Linda Schele and Mary Miller
An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya
by Mary Miller, Karl Taube
Modern Ethnography
Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World
by John M. Watanabe
The True History of Chocolate
by Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe
I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
by Rigoberta Menchu
The Zinacantecos of Mexico;: A modern Maya way of life, (Case studies in cultural anthropology)
by Evon Zartman Vogt
The Daykeeper, the Life and Discourse of an Ixil Diviner
by Benjamin Colby
Video
National Geographic's Lost Kingdoms of the Maya (1993)
on DVD and VHS
Fall of the Aztec and Maya Empires (1999)
on DVD and VHS
Nova - The Lost King of the Maya (2001)
on VHS
The Rise and Fall of the Aztec and Maya Empires
DVD
Yucatan Peninsula
Cenote of Sacrifice: Maya Treasures from the Sacred Well at Chichen Itza
by Orrin Shane, Clemency Coggins, Orrin C. Shane
The Indian background of colonial Yucatan, (The Civilization of the American Indian series)
by Ralph Loveland Roys
The Caste War of Yucatan
by Nelson A. Reed, Nelson Reed
On the Edge of the Sea: Mural Painting at Tancah-Tulum
by Arthur G. Miller
Chichen Itza: History, Art and Monuments
by Susana Vogel
An Archaeological Guide to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula
by Joyce Kelly
The House of the Governor: A Maya Palace of Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
by Jeff Kowalski
If you are a student currently enrolled, or considering enrolling, in one of our Study Abroad courses, you are under no obligation to buy or read these books in order to participate. This list is simply offered as a courtesy for those who wish to learn more about Mayan civilization.