Women and gender in the ancient Maya world / Traci Ardren -- Gender and Maya farming: Chan Nòohol, Belize / Cynthia Robin -- Gender divisions of labor and lowland terrace agriculture / Linda Stephen ...

Women played key political roles in Maya civilization throughout the 6th and 7th centuries C.E. Archaeologists at the ruins of Cobá, 70 miles from Chichen Itza, have just named another one of those ...