{"id":5276,"date":"2023-08-15T16:48:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T15:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=5276"},"modified":"2023-08-24T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T16:32:12","slug":"ancient-mexico-the-olmec-and-the-maya","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=5276","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Mexico \u2013 The Olmec and the Maya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Tunnicliffe<\/p>\n<p>Long before Columbus sailed and the Spanish Conquistadores arrived there were flourishing indigenous civilisations in the Americas. In Central America, the oldest of these was the fascinating Olmec people who created huge heads carved out of stone and introduced many \u201cfirsts\u201d, including writing, into the Americas. Later the Maya who were at their height from AD200-800 dominated. Now that their script is deciphered we can reconstruct the history of the many city-states from their rise to their mysterious decline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simon Martin &amp; Nikolai Grube 2008 (rev. ed) <em>Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens.<\/em>\u00a0 Thames &amp; Hudson<\/li>\n<li>Charles Phillips 2013<em> The Lost History of Aztec and Maya <\/em>\u00a0Hermes House<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Day:\u00a0 Thursdays\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Time: 1.45-3.45 pm\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>5 weeks,\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<b>21 September to 19th October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>VENUE<\/b>:\u00a0 Delivered by Zoom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price for the Series:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"560\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"52\"><strong>Price<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"119\"><strong>Concessions<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"168\"><strong>Minimum No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"221\"><strong>Maximum No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"52\">\u00a335<\/td>\n<td width=\"119\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"168\">8<\/td>\n<td width=\"221\">25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Please contact:<\/strong>\u00a0Michael Tunnicliffe 5 St George\u2019s Way, Northwich, CW9 8XG,\u00a0<strong>phone<\/strong>: 01606 42116\u00a0<strong>email<\/strong>: mtunni@sky.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Tunnicliffe Long before Columbus sailed and the Spanish Conquistadores arrived there were flourishing indigenous civilisations in the Americas. In Central America, the oldest of these was the fascinating Olmec people who created huge heads carved out of stone and introduced many \u201cfirsts\u201d, including writing, into the Americas. Later the Maya who were at their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5446,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5276","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5278,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5276\/revisions\/5278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}