"There has been a phenomenal increase in the literature published about the ancient, historical, and modern Maya between 2000 and 2010. This volume provides bibliographic coverage for the literature pertaining to the ancient and modern Maya of southern Mexico and northern Central America published between 2000 and 2010. Coverage is somewhat selective, being based on materials accessioned into the collection of the Library of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The scope of the literature in the bibliography includes archaeology, cultural/social anthropology, biological/ physical anthropology, linguistics, ethno- history, and related disciplines such as art history, ecology, and so forth"--Publisher's web site.