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Maya medicine concerns health and medicine among the ancient Maya civilization. It was a complex blend of mind , body, religion , ritual and science . Important to all, medicine was practiced only by a select few, who generally inherited their positions and received extensive education .
Palace of the Masks detail. 2002 photo Map of the Kabah Maya archeological zone. The most famous structure at Kabah is the "Palace of the Masks", the façade decorated with hundreds of stone masks of the long-nosed rain god Chaac; it is also known as the Codz Poop, meaning "Rolled Matting", from the pattern of the stone mosaics. [1]
The Museo de Medicina Maya (Museum of Maya Medicine) is an art museum in the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, in southern Mexico.The museum is mainly dedicated to the promotion of the medical practices among the ancient Tzotzil–Tzeltal population in the south of México.
Maya households interred their dead underneath the floors, with offerings appropriate to the social status of the family. There the dead could act as protective ancestors. Maya lineages were patrilineal, so the worship of a prominent male ancestor would be emphasised, often with a household shrine.
Southernmost sites of the Southern Maya area. Maya scholarship long has considered the ancient Maya in a temporal and geographic sense to have come into being, thermometer-fashion – as things began to “warm up,” socially and culturally – at the “bottom,” that is, in Southern Mesoamerica, in the Early Preclassic period: events and processes coalesced on the Pacific coast of what is ...
Historically, the Chʼortiʼ Maya were located in the Ocotepeque and Copan departments, as well as in the northern strip of the Cortes and Santa Barbara departments. This geographical area extends all the way to El Salvador to the northwest and all the way to Chiquimula on the west, and to the Golfo Dulce to the north.
"Yopaat, un dios maya de la tormenta en Quiriguá" (PDF). Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala (in Spanish). XXV (2011). Guatemala City, Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Instituto de Antropología e Historia and Asociación Tikal: 1061– 1073. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-23
In the Terminal Classic period Chontal Maya merchants controlled river and coastal trade routes in the Maya lowlands. [1] Another source of income is palm-wood artisanry. In the past, the manufacture of oyster -shell lime for mortar was an important economic activity, but the availability of mass-produced building materials has reduced demand ...