Daily Life Of Ancient Maya
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - All Maya regulated their lives by the sacred calendar and their belief that supernatural beings had the power to intervene in human affairs on earth.
Generally, they followed similar residential living patterns and highly respected family and lineage relations. However, many aspects of everyday life for the Maya, such as the clothing they wore and the food they consumed, depended mainly on their position in the social hierarchy and the region where they lived.
A typical Maya village. Credit: Guatemala National Museum of History and Anthropology
How Did The Ancient Maya Live?
Much of what we know about the ordinary Maya comes from 16th-century Spanish observations detailing their daily lives. Information about the thatched-roof huts in which they lived comes from excavations.
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