In 1976 Hubert Smith set out with a group of researchers to visually document Yucatec ... The Living Maya During filming however it was impossible to ignore the use of sign language in the village ...

17: 63 – 81. 2009 A Heritage of Ambiguity: The Historical Substrate of Vernacular Multiculturalism in Yucatan, Mexico. American Ethnologist 36(2): 299 – 316. 2009a Old Jokes and New Multiculturalisms: ...

Found on the outskirts of the Maya area, Altun Ha, which means "rockstone pond" in Yucatec Maya, is known for the fabulous jade that has turned up there. Dating to 550-600, the Temple of the Green ...

Icala said the Maya language K'iche is spoken by about 20,000 people in the Bay Area. There is also the Yucatec language of ...

Pre-Columbian Mexico was one of world's cradles of civilization, and home to civilizations including the Olmec, Maya, Zapotec ...

On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya city of Chichén Itzá, in the sparse shade of a tropical tree, a voice ricochets wildly up the mouth of a well. “¡Lo vi! ¡Lo vi!” ...

They did not speak English or Spanish. They spoke an indigenous Maya language called Mam. Jimenez says his sister was the first from their community of Todos Santos in Guatemala to migrate to the ...

Kemmerer, David 2006. The semantics of space: Integrating linguistic typology and cognitive neuroscience. Neuropsychologia, Vol. 44, Issue. 9, p. 1607. Viberg, Åke ...

To the ancient Maya, the cenotes of the Yucatán Peninsula were sacred as they believed them to be portals to the gods of the underworld. These underground caves are also one of the most unspoilt ...