Although the ethnomedical system of the Highland Maya is generally well understood, little is known about the Tzeltal Maya ethnomedical syndrome Cha’lam tsots, or ‘second hair.’ In an attempt to better understand the emic conceptualization, and possible biomedical equivalence of Cha’lam tsots, ethnographic data from semi-structured interviews was collected from the Tzeltal Maya municipality of ...

Maya is a simulation platform for evaluating the performance of parallel programs on parallel architectures with di erent memory coherence protocols. It uses the communication library PVM to ensure portability. Rapid prototyping of di erent memory protocols of varying degrees of coherence is possible and the impact of these protocols on the performance of application programs can be studied. We...

Some archaeologists have suggested recently that clusters of houses at Classic Maya sites functioned as urban neighborhoods. This article presents comparative historical and ethnographic data from low-density cities to support this interpretation. I review two Mesoamerican cases: the Aztec calpolli and the modern Tzotzil house cluster; and urban clusters in two African cases: the Nupe city of B...

Research into ancient societies frequently faces a major challenge in accessing the lives of those who made up the majority of their populations, since the available evidence so often concerns only the ruling elite. Our excavations at the ancient Maya site of Calakmul, Mexico, have uncovered a "painted pyramid:" a structure decorated with murals depicting scenes of its inhabitants giving, recei...

The aim of this paper is to present a method and a tool to extract the full set of information from an animated character designed in Maya (animatable body only). The Maya plug-in generates the appropriate data as specified in the MPEG-4 FBA standard [2]. The result is composed of three different data sets: the BDP (Body Definition Parameters) describing the character geometry, the BAP (Body An...

Maya is a simulation platform for evaluating the performance of parallel programs on parallel architectures with di erent memory coherence protocols. Rapid prototyping of di erent memory protocols supporting varying degrees of coherence is possible and the impact of these protocols on the performance of application programs can be studied. Implementations of existing weak memories along with so...