Talk:Maya architecture

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Requested move
All discussion surrounding the requested move should take place at Talk:Maya calendar. --  tariq abjotu  (joturner) 05:18, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

compared to the aztecs?
What I want to know is how mayan cities and architecture compared to aztec cities and architechture. Were the cities as decorated and complex as the Aztecs, or were they just villages? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!--  chuatemoc  01:32, 22 March 2007


 * Hi Chuatemoc. There were many thousands of Maya sites, spanning about two millennia and covering an extensive region; a few of 'em are linked to at List of Maya sites. They ranged from small villages to massive monumental complexes among the largest urban centres anywhere in pre-Columbian Americas- see for eg El Mirador, Tikal, Caracol, Chunchucmil. In terms of architecture and decoration, the variety, size and complexity of their structures are rivalled by a only a few others elsewhere in Mesoamerica. The Maya civilization article has more info.


 * The Aztecs were relatively late arrivals on the Mesoamerican scene, and while some of their cities, notably Tenochtitlan were equally impressive, they covered a smaller territory. Unfortunately, Aztec settlements have in general been substantially obliterated and built over by Spanish colonial settlements, while a good number of Maya ruins were spared this fate since many had been long-abandoned by the time the conquistadores came.--cjllw | TALK  23:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

This whole article is copyrighted
http://www.answers.com/topic/maya-architecture

Basically all of the information is from this source...The topic started just copy-pasted it. Dreadnought9 18:04, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Oops..nevermind I looked down and it said it was part of wikimedia..My bad. Dreadnought9 18:07, 2 April 2007 (UTC)


 * No worries. Unfortunately, quite a few of these proliferating mirrors of wikipedia content don't exactly promote that they just copy over our articles, and some seem to leave off the attribution altogether.--cjllw | TALK  00:10, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Basic Elements
Architecture without knowing the materials used is difficult to comprehend. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.198.236.17 (talk) 12:59, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Hey, there! I am going to be editing this article for a school project and I just wanted to make you aware of some of the changes I plan to make. First off I would like to specify that this article is an overview of the Pre-Columbian Maya architecture and I would like to add a source to the lead in paragraph since the one listed seems to be a dead link. I will also be updating some of the information and adding new sections, but I will post to the talk page when I get to those additions. Lastly, I would like to improve some of the grammatical errors within the article, more specifically the lead-in paragraph which uses the term "Mayan Architecture" which is actually a misusage of the phrase Mayan, I will change that to "Maya" since "Mayan" refers to their language rather than an all-encompassing word for their culture (Maya). (Jmbre21 (talk) 19:09, 1 November 2019 (UTC)) https://www.thoughtco.com/ancient-maya-mayans-most-accepted-term-171569

Possible copyright violation warning
I may be mistaken, but a significant part of the article could be copy-pasted from another source (or it could be the other way around). Here are the links I found that contain almost the same information as the article:

https://sites.google.com/site/masternido/the-maya/maya-civilization/notable-constructions

https://bujhansi.ac.in/econtent/pages/shortcodes/architecture/Mayan_Architecture.pdf ACelesteL (talk)ACelesteLACelesteL (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ACelesteL (talk • contribs) 13:19, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Confusing sentence...Can someone rephrase it?
"Maya pyramids had flat tops and were similar to the Aztec pyramids, though The Aztecs were the individuals who built their pyramids indistinguishable."

This sentence doesn't make sense. I THINK it is saying that the Aztecs "copied" the Mayan pyramid style. Can it be rephrased?

The problematic section is: "...the Aztecs were the individuals who built their pyramids indistinguishable."

Having "indistinguishable" at the end of the sentence is not typical of the English language.

Maybe it could say:

"Mayan pyramids had flat tops and this style was later adopted by the Aztec pyramid builders."

I didn't want to edit the page because I am not sure that this is what the writer was trying to say. Ashlyth (talk) 18:30, 17 February 2023 (UTC)