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Maya Civilization

Listen to part of a lecture in an archeology class. The professor has been

discussing ancient Mayan civilization.

Professor: Now, as you remember from your reading, the Maya were an ancient

civilization which occupied in area corresponding to parts of modern-day Mexico

and Central America. Early Mayan settlements date back over 3,000 years and say

from about 600 to 900 C.E. The civilization was in what

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s considered a golden

age of cultural achievement, what we call the Classic period.

The period after this, after the Classic Period, is called the Postclassic

period. Now it

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s long been thought that during the PostClassic period, Mayan

civilization was in decline. But we

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re continuing to find new evidence that in

certain areas Mayan civilization flourished right up to the end of the

Postclassic period, what we refer to as the late Postclassic period. The late

Postclassic corresponds to the period from the 1200s to 1500s, right until the

arrival of the Spanish in the mid-1500s. A good example of a site which

continued to flourishthrough the late Postclassic is the inland Mayan community

of Lamanai, located in what is today the country of Belize in Central America.

Now, Lamanai is one of the largest and most prominent archeological sites in

Belize. It was occupied for over 3000 years. That makes it the longest

continually- occupied site by the ancient Maya. Large-scale excavation at Lamanai

began back in 1974 under the leadership of a Canadian archeologist. The first