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Jennifer P. Mathews
Although Juicy Fruit® gum was introduced to North Americans in 1893, Native Americans in Mesoamerica were chewing gum thousands of years earlier. And although in the last decade biographies have…
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Sheds new light on how Maya society may have shaped - and been shaped by - the constructed environment. Moving beyond towering pyramids and temples, this volume focuses on how…
Justine M. Shaw,Jennifer P. Mathews
Mexico’s southern state of Quintana Roo is often perceived by archaeologists as a blank spot on the map of the Maya world, a region generally assumed to hold little of…
Jade, stone tools, honey and wax, ceramics, rum, land. What gave these commodities value in the Maya world, and how were those values determined? The Value of Things examines the…
John Robert Gust,Jennifer P. Mathews
Few people know the bittersweet story of sugar and rum in the jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula during the nineteenth century. The unique story that unfolds in John Gust and…
