Designating, or pertaining to, an American Indian linguistic
stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco,
Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of
Salvador. The Mayan peoples are dark, short, and brachycephallic, and
at the time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of culture
than any other American people. They cultivated a variety of crops,
were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics, used
cacao as a medium of exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and
copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and
places, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a developed system
of hieroglyphic writing, with records said to go back to about 700
a. d.
Of or pertaining to the Mayas.
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