Everything about Maya

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: MayaA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Temozolomide Followed by Combination With Low-Dose Ipilimumab and Nivolumab in Patients With Microsatellite-Stable, O6-Methylguanine–DNA Methyltransferase–Silenced Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: The MAYA TrialInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Climate and the Collapse of Maya CivilizationCited 783 times
5. Go sideways: Red (disambiguation)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Chocolate (disambiguation)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization

  Gerald H. Haug, Detlef Günther, Larry C. Peterson · 2003 · Science · 783 citations

• Possible role of climate in the collapse of Classic Maya civilization

  David A. Hodell, Jason H. Curtis, Mark Brenner · 1995 · Nature · 720 citations

• Development and Disintegration of Maya Political Systems in Response to Climate Change

  Douglas J. Kennett, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Valorie V. Aquino · 2012 · Science · 473 citations

• Solar Forcing of Drought Frequency in the Maya Lowlands

  David A. Hodell, Mark Brenner, Jason H. Curtis · 2001 · Science · 457 citations

• Airborne LiDAR, archaeology, and the ancient Maya landscape at Caracol, Belize

  Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, John F. Weishampel · 2011 · Journal of Archaeological Science · 424 citations

• Artificial intelligence versus Maya Angelou: Experimental evidence that people cannot differentiate AI-generated from human-written poetry

  Nils Köbis, Luca D. Mossink · 2021 · Computers in Human Behavior · 358 citations

• Climate Variability on the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) during the Past 3500 Years, and Implications for Maya Cultural Evolution

  Jason H. Curtis, David A. Hodell, Mark Brenner · 1996 · Quaternary Research · 356 citations

• Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala

  Marcello A. Canuto, Francisco Estrada-Belli, Thomas G. Garrison · 2018 · Science · 292 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Temozolomide Followed by Combination With Low-Dose Ipilimumab and Nivolumab in Patients With Microsatellite-Stable, O6-Methylguanine–DNA Methyltransferase–Silenced Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: The MAYA Trial

  Federica Morano, Alessandra Raimondi, Filippo Pagani · 2022 · Journal of Clinical Oncology · 130 citations

• South-to-north migration preceded the advent of intensive farming in the Maya region

  Douglas J. Kennett, Mark Lipson, Keith M. Prufer · 2022 · Nature Communications · 56 citations

• Drought-Induced Civil Conflict Among the Ancient Maya

  Douglas J. Kennett, Marilyn Masson, Carlos Peraza Lope · 2022 · Nature Communications · 51 citations

• Ancient Lowland Maya neighborhoods: Average Nearest Neighbor analysis and kernel density models, environments, and urban scale

  Amy E. Thompson, John P. Walden, Adrian S. Z. Chase · 2022 · PLOS ONE · 50 citations

• Influences of micropores and water molecules in the palygorskite structure on the color and stability of Maya blue pigment

  Guanzheng Zhuang, Li Li, Mengyuan Li · 2022 · Microporous and Mesoporous Materials · 32 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou · 1969
• Balun-cananRosario Castellanos · 1957
• The heart of a womanMaya Angelou · 1981
• Grandeza y decadencia de los MayasJohn Eric Sidney Thompson · 1954
• Grave SecretsKathy Reichs · 2002
• The MayaMichael D. Coe · 1966
• Mexican archæologyThomas Athol Joyce · 1914
• Landa's Relación de las cosas de YucatanDiego de Landa, Diego De Lana · 1864

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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