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  2. Women rulers in Maya society - Wikipedia

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    Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya (1st ed.). London and New York: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05103-8. OCLC 47358325. Martin, Simon; Nikolai Grube (2008). Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya (2nd revised ed.).

  3. Women in Maya society - Wikipedia

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    The social, and political rank of ancient Maya women is increasingly debated in archeological studies into the role of gender. To date, lines of evidence are based chiefly on an investigation of material culture (e.g. monumental sculpture and iconography, ceramic art), use of space (residential architecture and activity analysis, and, to a ...

  4. Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan - Wikipedia

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    The project Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan (abbr. TWKM) promotes research on the writing and language of pre-Hispanic Maya culture. It is housed in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bonn and was established with funding from the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. [ 1 ]

  5. List of Maya sites - Wikipedia

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    The peoples and cultures which comprised the Maya civilization spanned more than 2,500 years of Mesoamerican history, in the Maya Region of southern Mesoamerica, which incorporates the present-day nations of Guatemala and Belize, much of Honduras and El Salvador, and the southeastern states of Mexico from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec eastwards, including the entire Yucatán Peninsula.

  6. Wak Chanil Ajaw - Wikipedia

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    Tatiana Proskouriakoff first recognized the name of the queen in the 1960s during her pioneering studies of the historical side of Maya inscriptions. [2] She nicknamed the queen "Lady of Tikal " because of the use of the Mutal emblem glyph; it was not until later that scholars realized more than one city used the same glyph.

  7. Maya (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Maya has ranked among the one thousand most popular names for girls in the United States since 1970 and among the top one hundred most popular names for American girls since 2002. Spelling variant Maia has ranked among the top one thousand names for American girls since 1996. [7] In 2022, it was the 21st most popular name given to girls in ...

  8. List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin

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    This is a list of Spanish words that come from indigenous languages of the Americas.It is further divided into words that come from Arawakan, Aymara, Carib, Mayan, Nahuatl, Quechua, Taíno, Tarahumara, Tupi and uncertain (the word is known to be from the Americas, but the exact source language is unclear).

  9. Classic Maya language - Wikipedia

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    Speakers of these languages can understand many Classic Mayan words. Classic Maya is quite a morphologically binding language, and most words in the language consist of multiple morphemes with relatively little irregularity. It shows some regional and temporal variations, which is completely normal considering the long period of use of the ...