Maya-Toltec Controversy in Chichen Itza
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 132 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5085-8034-6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Maya-Toltec is very agricultural Chichen Itza and Tula, Hidalgo have numerous architectural similarities in a number of their constructions. This Toltec-Maya connection is widely considered powerful, unprecedented, and unique in Mesoamerica. Unlike most Maya sites, some of Chichen Itza’s buildings have the traits of the Toltecs, a historically powerful indigenous group from modern-day Mexico. The explanation of these similarities is a point of controversy among the scholars of the Toltec and Maya fields. Certain historical records caused many early scholars of the region to assume that a Toltec invasion from Tula, Hidalgo, usually placed in the ninth or tenth centuries, was responsible for a new wave of Mexican-style Maya buildings after the rest of the buildings in Chichen Itza were built. Other historical accounts imply a migration from Tula to Chichen Itza. An account of the Tula records a ruler of the Toltecs travelling east, which,...