Maya Calendar Origins - Rice

Maya Calendar Origins. Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time by Prudence M Rice argues that the Maya calendars developed about a millennium earlier than commonly thought, around 1200 BC, as an outgrowth of observations of the natural phenomena that scheduled the movements of late Archaic hunter-gatherer-collectors throughout what became Mesoamerica. The author's research also sheds new light on the origins of the Popol Vuh, which, Rice believes, encodes the history of the development of the Mesoamerican calendars. Illustrated. Softcover. 268pp.