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What you will get is a very thorough but very readable survey of the challenging archeological history of the ancient maya that makes it impossible to give simple answers about their culture

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Would have given 5 stars but there are no page numbers

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A note on the style it can seem very inaccessible to people like me who are used to reading wikipedia articles

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Too bad they ruined their forests and soil

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Such human sacrifices or selfsacrifices created a demographic problem that might have partly been the result of some kind of dealing with overpopulation with sexual selfsacrifice for men that resulted in some kind of contraception with the sacrifice of males that resulted in less sexual male partners and with the sacrifice of orphans and handicapped children that led to both eugenics and the reduction of male sexual procreators

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The author should also have insisted on the fact that such practices were absolutely marginal among northern american indians

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The second question this synthesis brings up is that of the maya language that we only know through its writing system

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The book cannot answer how long it took the maya to devise and develop this written language and it cannot answer the simple question of how long maya language had been in existence before the maya society invented the writing system that needed an elite body of writing scribes