Itza Maya
A comprehensive synthesis, almost encyclopedic, of everything we know of the ItzaMaya, this volume, edited and mostly written by two archaeologists heavily engaged for decades in research in the Petén, Prudence Rice and Don Rice, scrutinizes social, political, environmental, and linguistic evidence from archaeological and historical studies on the Petén. In this truly interdisciplinary work, the focus is chiefly on the chain of eight central Petén lakes. The authors use multiple and distinct perspectives to answer the complex question: Who were the Itzas?