For nearly a century, scholars have used astronomical evidence to explain the Lowland
Maya architectural type known as “E-Groups” as solar observatories and, by extension, as …

Street grids commonly reflect the administration of urban populations and attempts to
enhance city life. Planned grids are not typical of ancient Mesoamerican and especially …

In the 1920s, during the first archaeological excavations at Uaxactún, Petén, Guatemala, an
architectural complex named Group E was interpreted as an ancient Maya astronomical …

This article synthesizes recent advances in the study of astronomy and worldview in
architectural and urban planning in Mesoamerica. Throughout most of this cultural area, the …

What determines a site's location? In the ceremonial core of the lowland Maya site of Nixtun-
Ch'ich', Guatemala, a large depression lies east of an E-Group (quasi-solar-“observatory”) …

This chapter responds to the urgency for reflecting on the large-scale ethical and ecological
implications, socio-political challenges and technological preconditions of space migration …

The three modern Mexican states of Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo compose
roughly half of the Maya area. The northern Maya lowlands, whose southern boundary runs …

Archeological investigations in northern Guatemala have provided a strong record of the
origins, dynamics, and collapse of social, political and economic complexity in the Preclassic …

Intervals of 260 days are recorded by architectural orientations at a number of Maya sites, a
pattern that may have developed early at sites such as Nakbe. The 260-day calendar …

By combining two frameworks (the Dynamic Model and that of political cycling), I use both
textual and archaeological evidence to document the origins of the Maya state. The …