Talk:Maya warfare

Article creation
Hello just created this page for an Ancient Maya project at the University of Kansas. If i could get some help setting up a link between this and the Maya Society subheading Maya Warfare that would be great. Also if anyone knows how to incorporate this into the Wikiproject Mesoamerica that would be useful also Cuauhtemoc07 (talk) 01:36, 23 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi there Cuauhtemoc, thanks for the article! I see you've worked out by using the template main to put a subhead link to this article from the Maya society page. I've also put in the WP:MESO banner above, so that this article will be linked in with the rest of the project's watchlists & activities.


 * One minor point, I've renamed this from Mayan warfare to Maya warfare, to be consistent with our general naming convention here, where we use 'Mayan' in linguistics, and 'Maya' for other fields. (refer WP:MESO/G for background). Regards, --cjllw ʘ  TALK 14:00, 23 September 2008 (UTC)


 * This is a nice entry, with a solid organizational structure that includes both general discussions and specific examples. I think the discussion would benefit from discussion of depictions of Maya warfare in art, especially the graphic murals at Bonampak and in the Temple of the Jaguar at Chichen Itza. Please note how I've organized your footnotes and references in a more efficient style.  I've also added a larger range of links to other relevant entries.  Note that the bibliographic references should be cleaned up to conform to a better Wikipedia style.  Please provide names for the external links at the bottom of the page.  Hoopes (talk) 03:11, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Up to batab
This page calls them geographical areas. This page calls them town chiefs ("mayors"). This page calls them military officers. Which is it...? TREKphiler  hit me ♠  10:17, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

New InternetHero material for consensus
Given the current circumstances; I'm going to be bold and suggest that this material should be approved through consensus arrived at by other editors before being added to the article itself; please do not re-add until discussion occurs. Also, I'd like to request that InternetHero provide a direct quote from this source; (Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatán, 1517-1570. pg 28) before re-adding to substantiate what's being stated here:

"The colonization efforts by settler-conquistadors were largely diplomatic since the only real available resources were cotton, fine ceramics, jade, cocoa beans, and the salt-pans of the northern coast.The dour audacity expected from this Spanish campaign was prevented by the terrain of the Yucatán which denied the normal heroism displayed from adelantados and their men."

cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 21:24, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Cheers? Aha thats why. . You'll never defeate some1 whos pretecting thermselves and the land. InternetHero (talk) 21:48, 20 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Some of the sentiment of that material does appear in Clendinnen's book; even more than that, so does some of the language, with phrases like "dour tenacity" lifted straight from it, only reordered. That said, while the language and tone is quite ok for Clendinnen's book (which is a reliable source) it's not ok for an encyclopaedia (nor is it ok to copy distinctive phrases unless you're actually providing a direct quote). There's also a degree of opinion to it, and while Clendinnen's opinion is notable/quotable it would need to be identified as such. There are also elements not supported by the source (eg "largely diplomatic" efforts does not stand up). The whole thing could be expressed much more simply without the laden tone&mdash;Montejo's conquistador forces found the Yucatan hard going through a combination of the terrain and people's resistance, made all the more trying (from the spanish POV) by the region's lack of the types of resources/riches the spanish were most interested in. But in any case this article's main thrust and natural focus is on pre-Columbian Maya warfare, not Maya-Spanish resistance & warfare. I feel that there are other articles better suited than this one to cover these aspects. I don't think it belongs here, and certainly not in its present form. --cjllw ʘ  TALK 02:54, 21 August 2010 (UTC)


 * The word 'diplomatic' isn't in the book, and the list of commodities isn't on p.28 either. I wonder if the title and use of the word 'ambivalent' accounts for his bizarre use of 'ambivalence' at European colonisation of the Americas. He's been blocked for a week for disruptive editing, by the way, and this is more evidence that the block was correct and indeed may not be enough (before the block he told me he'd get another IP). Dougweller (talk) 05:29, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

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