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Kingship in the Late Preclassic Maya lowlandsarticle 1988 • Freidel, David A. & Schele, Linda
Preclassic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
In this article, Freidal and Schele explore the Preclassic origins of Mayan kingship, the institution of AHAW. They argue that the institution developed in the first century B.C. to accommodate contradictions between an egalitarian ethos and emerging...