ANTH 348 Midterm Maya vocab
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- Long Count parts
- 360 days (since day 0), bak'tuns, k'atuns, tuns, winals (17), k'in
- baptismal ceremony
- compradrazgo
- penny capitalism
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- archeology
- excavation of artifacts to make assumptions about the past
- 260-day calender day signs
- Tzolkin (day numbers 1-13, day names 1-20)
- locations of codices (bark books)
- Dresden, Madrid, Paris
- language families (5)
- Uto-Aztecan (Nahuatl), Oto-Manguean, Yucatecan (Mayan), Mixe-Zoquean (Olmecs/Zapotecs), Totonacan (Teotihuacan)
- complex society
- society w/ division of labor and cooperation ("social arrangements")
- Rigaberta Michu
- Nobel Peace prize for writings on Guatemala violence
- Diego de Landa
- bishop that chronicled Maya life & writings
- cargo system
- ranked religious officers who "bear the burden of" organizing festivals for the community
- Schele & Freidel definition of culture
- shared conception of reality created by members of a society living together over generations
- Olmecs
- an archeological or cultural context, not a group of people
- Tenochtitlan
- Aztec capital
- simple society
- everyone has the same job
- Maya geography
- Highlands (south, mountains), Peten (central), Lowlands (north, rainforest)
- parts of the Popol Vuh
- 2 first generations of people (mud, wood), Hero Twins, corn people
- 365-day month signs
- Haab (1 month = 20 days, Uayeb = 5 day month left over)
- (S & F) 3 Mayan domains
- heaven, Middleworld (Earth), Underworld
- Yucatan Peninsula
- Mexico, Guatemala, Belize
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- voiceless velar fricative
- time periods
- Early Hunters (Paleo-Indians), Archaic (sedentary complex societies), Complex societies (Formative, Preclassic, Classic, post-Classic)
- civilization
- "people who live in cities"
- Round date
- Tzolkin + Haab (day, month, 52 year cycle)
- ancestral language
- proto-Mayan