Category: Wars and Warfare
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The Arrival of Strangers’: Teotihuacan and Tollan in Classic Maya History
David Stuart 1990 Stuart, David. “’The Arrival of Strangers’: Teotihuacan and Tollan in Classic Maya History.” Mesoamerica’s Classic Heritage: From Teotihuacan to the Aztecs, 1990. Read more
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Some Working notes on the Text of Tikal Stela 31
David Stuart 2011 University of Texas Austin Read more
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CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF WARFARE IN THE MAYA WORLD
Archaeological studies worldwide have revealed a wide range of cultural contexts within which practices of violence and warfare have occurred. In Mesoamerica, ongoing studies have enriched our understanding of social contexts of violence and warfare in Maya societies. This expanding body of field data allows deeper exploration of the ways violence was intricately linked to Read more
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CLASSIC MAYA WARFARE AND WEAPONS: Spear, dart, and arrow points of Aguateca and Copan
this article discusses spear, dart, and arrow points used by the Classic Maya elites at the rapidly abandoned fortified city ofAguateca, Guatemala, and their temporal and spatial distribution patterns in and around Copan, Honduras. Both the royal familyand elite scribes/artists at Aguateca used spear and dart points for intergroup human conflict as well as for Read more
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Study Shows Maya Civilization Decimated by Massive, Fiery War
Barri Bronston 2019 While these ruins date the destruction later than the Book of Mormon final destruction, it demonstrates the level of destruction capable by warfare of the early classic Maya. Read more
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Uaxactun After the Conquest by Teotihuacanos as Told by the Mural from Palace B-XIII
Authors Milan Covac Published 2019 The Conquest of Uaxactun by the the Teotihucanos around 400 AD, the same time of the great and last battles of the Nephites, this time period saw numerous cities destroyed and captured by Teotihuacan as they rose to power. Read more
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Cultural Dimensions of Warfare in the Mayan World
Nam C. Kim 2023 A study of warfare in the ancient world, during and shortly after the destruction of the Nephites Read more
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Mesoamerican “Cimeters” in Book of Mormon Times
Author Matthew Roper Published 2008 Catalogs the existence of weapons depicted in artifacts meeting the definition of “cimeters” as mentions in the Book of Mormon” Read more
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Classic Maya Warfare and Weapons: Spear, Dart and Arrow Points of Aquateca and Copan
Kazuo Aoyama 2005 Although this non-LDS study deals primarily with the classic maya, it may provide insight to the weapons and warfare of The Book of Mormon which occurs during the late preclassic and early classic eras Read more
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Rehabilitating Becan
Authors David Webster and Joseph W. Ball Published 2021 A study of the structures and fortifications of Becan during the time shortly after the Book of Mormon Webster, David, and Joseph W. Ball. “REHABILITATING BECÁN.” Ancient Mesoamerica 32, no. 3 (2021): 371–95. Read more