[Aztlan] MAYA TEMPLES MAY NOT HAVE BEEN BUILT ONLY BY RULERS

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

Archaeologist Lisa Lucero has been investigating at the Maya site of  
Yalbec in Belize. She now believes that Maya rulers were not the only  
people sponsoring and building Late Classic temples. Nobles, priests  
and commoners may have built temples. This may be why there are many  
temples in most centers. Temples were built by different agents to  
worship different gods and represent different parts of Maya society  
Lucero now believes.

Lucero’s latest findings are detailed in the journal Latin American  
Antiquity in an article titled “Classic Maya Temples, Politics, and  
the Voice of the People.”

Science Daily has the story here;
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080225134239.htm

Mike Ruggeri




Mike Ruggeri's Maya World
http://tinyurl.com/ypkq2v

Mike Ruggeri's Maya Archaeology News and Links
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/MIkeRuggerisMaya/index.html