The ruins of time : four and a half centuries of conquest and discovery among the maya /: four and a half centuries of conquest and discovery among the maya. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Adamson.
• Authors: Adamson, David, 1927-
• Contents: Part 1. Conquest 1. The Strength of Darkness 2. The Land of Maiam 3. The Conquest Begins 4. The Maya Crushed 5. ‘Are They Not Men?’ 6. Beneath the Vines, Beneath the Trees 7. The Fall of Tayasal Part 2. Exploration 8. A Lost City Rediscovered 9. The Race to Palenque 10. Incidents of Travel 11. The Cruzob, People of the Cross 12. The Greatest Discovery 13. La Cité Lorillard 14. The Epigraphers 15. Lords of the Jaguar Mat 16. A Foot-Soldier of Anthropology
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (276 pages), illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour)
• Subjects: 972; Mayas -- Antiquities; Archaeology -- History; Mexico -- Antiquities; Central America -- Antiquities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000857719; 9781000857627
• Related ISBNs: 9781032436739
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