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Description: Cahyup, restoration view, after 1300

TitleCahyup, restoration view, after 1300

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SubjectsArchitecture--Designs and plansIndian architecture--Central AmericaArchaeological sites

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10. The Neighbours of the Maya

George Kubler

The Art and Architecture of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya and Andean Peoples

The Cordilleran highland region of Chiapas, Guatemala, and Salvador is a mountainous land bridge favouring east-west transit. Its volcanoes mark the southern boundaries of Classic Maya civilization. Repeated invasions of these highland valleys and Pacific plains from the Gulf Coast and from the mountains of Mexico occurred in all pre-Columbian periods, with the result that Maya culture was never dominant in the region, even if, from Chiapas to the Río Lempa, different dialects of the Maya …

Author

George Kubler

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.325-340

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00123.015

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14197&redirecttoanchor=10977

Chapter subject tags:Indian art--Central AmericaIndians of Central AmericaArchaeology and art

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