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The Preclassic origin of lowland Maya statesessay 1992 • Sharer, Robert J.
Preclassic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This is a brief review of recent archaeological investigations of Preclassic Lowland Mayan sites that points to an indigenous origin of the Mayan state in the Late Preclassic period. Sharer discusses the sites of Nakbe and El Mirador in northern Guat...Tradition summaryessay 2000 • Sharer, Robert J.
Classic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This is a summary of the Classic Maya Tradition....QuiriguaBook 1990 • Sharer, Robert J.
Classic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
Sharer describes the Classic Mayan center of Quirgua. Most of the book is spent on giving the physical description of it's monuments and structures. Along with the physical descriptions of the monuments Sharer tells the reader a little bit about what...Terminal events in the southeastern lowlandsessay 1985 • Sharer, Robert J.
Postclassic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
The southeast Maya lowlands were an important zone of economic and political interaction between the Maya and peoples of the northwest periphery of Central America (p. 245). Although Quirigua is generally considered as a Terminal Classic site, it is ...The ancient MayaBook 1994 • Sharer, Robert J. & Morley, Sylvanus Griswold
Classic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This is an excellent introduction to classic Mayan civilization and includes discussions about the preclassic and postclassic periods. In the first half of the book, Sharer discusses the Maya on a period-by-period and site-by-site basis. In the secon...