The Fall of the Ancient Maya Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse

David Webster

ISBN 10: 0500051135 / ISBN 13: 9780500051139

Verlag: Thames and Hudson, 2002

Beschreibung

*** BOOK in clean tight and unmarked condition. pp343/4 folded and creased. Brown boards with gilt title on spine, 368 pages including index, notes and bibliography, 84 illustrations. *** DUST JACKET in very good condition, not price clipped, very slight shelfwear, now Trimsleeve protected. *** CONTENTS: The author examines what went wrong with the Maya civilisation - not surprisingly acrimony, greed and over exploitation of arable land played a large part in their downfall. Size: 240x160mm.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007062

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Fall of the Ancient Maya Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse
• Verlag: Thames and Hudson
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0500051135
• ISBN-13: 9780500051139
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

The most satisfying and convincing analysis yet produced of the downfall of the New World’s greatest ancient civilization.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Webster is Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University and the author of several books on the Maya world. He has carried out many excavations at Maya centres, including Copan, Becan and Pledras Negras.