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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="issn">2408-932X</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Research Result. Social Studies and Humanities</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2408-932X</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18413 /2408-932X-2014-1-2-103-105</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">188</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>MISCCELLANEOUS: MESSAGES, DISCUSSIONS, REVIEWS</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>THE PAST THAT DOES NOT LET GO… A FEW WORDS ABOUT CULTURAL STUDIES OF MAYA</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>THE PAST THAT DOES NOT LET GO… A FEW WORDS ABOUT CULTURAL STUDIES OF MAYA</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Zubarev</surname><given-names>Valentin A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Zubarev</surname><given-names>Valentin A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>vazemus@mail.ru</email></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>1</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>0</fpage><lpage>0</lpage><self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="/media/humanities/2014/2/Zubarev.pdf" /><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>The research is of great interest due to the overall situation in the history of the ancient American civilizations, to the growing interest in religion, mythology, and the worldview of pre-Columbian inhabitants of America.
Before the arrival of Europeans, the people on the unknown territory developed in their own special way. This fact is of particular interest as they didn’t feel the influence of other cultures and civilizations. The people did not adopt the experience of other nations. Their life, culture, writing, architecture, painting were unique and had no analogues. This isolation allows us to recreate and analyzes the way of evolution and the development of thinking.
Also, here we have a huge, slightly unexplored cultural layer. The process of "discovery of America" has begun recently. It continues up to now. The Maya writing was deciphered in the mid-twentieth century by the Soviet scientist-linguist Knorozov. In the selva of the Yucatan, the lost Maya cities were discovered almost every year.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The research is of great interest due to the overall situation in the history of the ancient American civilizations, to the growing interest in religion, mythology, and the worldview of pre-Columbian inhabitants of America.
Before the arrival of Europeans, the people on the unknown territory developed in their own special way. This fact is of particular interest as they didn’t feel the influence of other cultures and civilizations. The people did not adopt the experience of other nations. Their life, culture, writing, architecture, painting were unique and had no analogues. This isolation allows us to recreate and analyzes the way of evolution and the development of thinking.
Also, here we have a huge, slightly unexplored cultural layer. The process of "discovery of America" has begun recently. It continues up to now. The Maya writing was deciphered in the mid-twentieth century by the Soviet scientist-linguist Knorozov. In the selva of the Yucatan, the lost Maya cities were discovered almost every year.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Mesoamerica</kwd><kwd>Maya</kwd><kwd>Ancient civilization</kwd><kwd>Pre-Columbian</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Mesoamerica</kwd><kwd>Maya</kwd><kwd>Ancient civilization</kwd><kwd>Pre-Columbian</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>Список литературы</title><ref id="B1"><mixed-citation>2,&amp;nbsp;000 &amp;ndash; Year Old Pyramid and Multiple Pre-Columbian Burial Sites Found in Veracruz, Mexico. URL: http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/07/2000-year-old-pyramid-and-multiple-pre-columbian-burial-sites-found-in-veracruz-mexico-2708338.html (date of access: June&amp;nbsp;25, 2014).</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><mixed-citation>Coe,&amp;nbsp;M. Maya. Vanished Civilization: Legends and Facts. Moscow, 2001. 270&amp;nbsp;p.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B3"><mixed-citation>Gulyaev,&amp;nbsp;V. City&amp;ndash;States of the Maya (Structure and functions of the city in the early class society). Moscow: Nauka, 1979. 188&amp;nbsp;p.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B4"><mixed-citation>Proskuryakova,&amp;nbsp;T. Maya History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. 240&amp;nbsp;p.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B5"><mixed-citation>Rodr&amp;iacute;guez&amp;nbsp;Mart&amp;iacute;nez, Ma.&amp;nbsp;Del&amp;nbsp;Carmen, Ponciano&amp;nbsp;Ort&amp;iacute;z&amp;nbsp;Ceballos, Michael&amp;nbsp;D.&amp;nbsp;Coe, Richard&amp;nbsp;A.&amp;nbsp;Diehl, Stephen&amp;nbsp;D.&amp;nbsp;Houston, Karl&amp;nbsp;A.&amp;nbsp;Taube and Alfredo&amp;nbsp;Delgado&amp;nbsp;Calder&amp;oacute;n. Oldest Writing in the New World. Science. September&amp;nbsp;16, 2006. Washington. Pp.&amp;nbsp;1610&amp;ndash;1614.</mixed-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>