the ideology of the maya civlization

It is a joke among professionals that archaeologists make crummy psychological anthropologists. This is because archaeologists rely solely on material culture left behind by human populations, buried deep within layers of dirt and ambiguity with the passing of time. It is impossible to recreate the Maya “model of the mind” for an individual; however, we can make general inferences about Maya people and their specific ideology through the study of their cultural remains. The Maya were a unique culture in the Americas because of their creation of written language. This fact has allowed archaeologists to understand more about the Maya way of life. These people are not referred to as the “mother culture” of Central America, however, they are acknowledged as reaching the pinnacles of artistic, architectural, and astrological prestige that characterize classic civilization. The Maya created feedback loops with their ideology that produced and maintained structures of power. W...