Research Reveals the Unique Political Organization and Landscape of Chichén Itzá
The Society for American Archaeology’s paper of the month for July comes from Latin American Antiquity and is entitled “The Political Organization and the Landscape of Chichén Itzá, Yucatan, Mexico, in the Classical Terminal Period (830-930AD)” Authors: Péter Bíró and Eduardo Pérez de Heredia The absence of references to the great city of Chichén Itzá in the Colonial chronicles, both indigenous and Spanish, which refer almost exclusively to the last century before the conquest, is very striking.…












