Maya warfare: sources and interpretations

The Investigation of Classic Period Maya Warfare at Caracol, Belice

Prior to the 1950s the prevalent view of the ancient Maya was as a peaceful people. ln 1952, Robert Rands completed his Ph. D. thesis on the evidences of warfare in Classic Maya art, following up on the important work just completed by Tatia-na Proskouriakoff (1950). Since then, research has rapidly accumulated substantial documentation that the Maya were in fact warlike (cf. Marcus 1974; Repet...

Underwater rain noise : sources, spectra and interpretations

An overview over the most important results obtained over the past of noise produced in water by impacts of single droplets, artificial rain and real rain is presented. Two distinct sources form the major contributors to rainfall produced noise in the sea. The raindrop impact and the pulsations of entrained air bubbles. The impact sound is produced by raindrops of all sizes, while the bubble pu...

Visualizing Maya

Pervasive animation in games, animation, films, numerous websites and stand-alone information interfaces, means that software increasingly influences how we imagine fictions, display information and interact with a digitally mediated world. Given its centrality in creating image, how can a 3D software package be made visible beyond the images seen in cinema, in games, commercials and visualizat...

Origins of the Maya Forest Garden: Maya Resource Management

The Maya Forest: destroyed or cultivated by the ancient Maya?

B oth academic and popular perceptions concerning the relationship between the Maya (ancient and modern) and the Maya Forest in which their culture developed and persisted formore than three millennia are varied and continuously subject to change (1). The analysis of a sediment core from a pond located near the ancient Maya city of Copan, Honduras, interpreted byMcNeil et al. (2) in this issue ...