Article Title

Violent End to Maya Civilization?

Authors

Keywords

Mayan studies, Vanderbilt, Arthur Demarest

Abstract

A May 26 article in the Washington Post reports on the archaeological research of Vanderbilt U. Prof. Arthur Demarest that shows that the Maya civilization may have collapsed much more violently and much more rapidly than previously thought. "The whole region was gripped by endemic warfare far more destructive than anything we had ever imagined," says Demarest. He believes that this collapse was related to overpopulation and poor soils.

Recommended Citation

(1991) "Violent End to Maya Civilization?," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 11: No. 4, Article 11.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol11/iss4/11