Built great stone buildings and pyramid temples. Palaces, plazas and ball courts.
Stone and limestone blocks
Log houses with thatched roofs and dirt floors. The chiefs (cacique) lived in large rectangular buildings, while the common people lived in small circular huts.
Chicanel pottery includes dishes with wide- everted and grooved rims, bowls with composite silhouette and vessels resembling ice buckets.
Some small pottery and woven baskets.
The Maya painted their pottery.
No images of art work, only body paintings.
They created plaques from jade.
Jewellery from bone, stone and sometimes gold.
Polytheistic- worshipped many gods or spirits. They had 166 gods. Maya religion was based on nature.
Animism :Each household had several zemis.
Simpler religion- prayed for successful raids.
Cannibalism as part of their religion.
Hieroglyphic writing. (picture- based writing)
Class of priests who were trained in mathematics and astronomy.
Calculate appropriate times for religious rituals and ceremonies. Calculated the solar year.
The construction of canoes.
Economy based on agriculture.
Conuco cultivation was used - a small planting area located near or behind a person’s home.
Cassava was the main crop.
The use of cassareep as a preservative and drink.
Hunted, gathered and fished
Cassava was the main crop.
The use of cassareep as a preservative and drink.
Hunted, gathered and fished
