David Freidel

The recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as is existed before the European invasion. Now, two central figures in the massive effort to decode the glyphs, Linda Shele and David Freidel, make this history available for the first time in all its detail.
Hailed as "a Rosetta Stone of Maya civilization", A Forest of Kings is "a must for interested readers", seys Evon Vogt, professor of anthropology at Harvard University.