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Deep within the forest in northern Guatemala lie the ruins of Rio Azul, a Maya city that reached one-third the size of Tikal. Discovered and partially explored in the early 1960s. Rio Azul and the surrounding region were more fully investigated between 1983 and 1987 by an archaeological team led by Richard E. W. Adams. In this summary, Adams integrates the findings of field archaeologists with those of the epigraphers and art historians to rec...

This major revision of Adams's classic text on the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, lavishly illustrated with 130 b&w, illustrations and 18 maps, adds new information from archaeological fieldwork in the region from the 1990s through 2004 and evaluates recent theories regarding the remarkable prehistoric cultures of this region.

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The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica, gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic and preclassic societies and continuing to the present. Fully illustrated and engagingly written, the book is divided into sections that discuss the native cultures of Mesoamerica...

Scrutinizes the data, surveys external influences on the early Maya, and considers economics, ecology, demography, and warfare - as well as social and ideological factors - in explaining the transformation of Maya culture from a village-oriented society to one centred on elite classes living in large civic centres with monumental architecture.