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Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings

  • Edited by Gyles Iannone, Brett A. Houk, and Sonja A. Schwake
  • Pub Date: 12/11/2018
  • Hardcover: $89.95
  • Paper: $29.95

The contributors offer new insights into the Maya "collapse," evaluating the trope of the scapegoat king and the demise of the traditional institution of kingship in the early ninth century AD--a time of intense environmental, economic, social, political, and even ideological change.

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