?-200 A. D. Period of migrations.
200-600 Chichen Itza founded.
520 Chichen Itza abandoned.
640-960 Itzas at Chakanputun.
700-960 Chichen rebuilt. League of Mayapan.
960-1200 Old Empire. Great cities of Guatemala and Honduras
flourished.
1200-1442 Toltec influence, especially at Chichen Itza.
1442 Fall of Mayapan and end of Maya civilization.
The historical accounts upon which parts of our story are based are:
MOLINA, J. Historia del discubrimiento y conquista de Yucatan, 1896,
pp. 47-51
HERRERA, Historia General, 1601-1605.
PRESCOTT, Chapter III, after Herrera, Torquemada, etc.
LANDA (156), Brasseur de Bourbourg ed. 1864, pp. 344-346.
Relacion de Valladolid (1579) in Col. de Doc. Ineditos,
1898-1900, vol. XIII, p. 25
Other historical and general references are:
_History_:
COGOLLUDO, D. L. Historia de Yucatan, 1688.
VILLAGUTIERRE, J. Historia de la conquista de la Provincia del Itza,
1701.
MEANS, P. A. A history of the Spanish conquest of Yucatan and of the
Itzas, in _Papers of the Peabody Museum_, vol. VII, 1917.
_Chronology_:
MORLEY, S. G. The correlation of Maya and Christian chronology.
(_American Journal of Archaeology_, 2nd series, vol. XIV,
pp. 193-204.)
The historical value of the Books of Chilam Balam (_American
Journal of Archaeology_, 2nd series, vol. XV, pp.
195-214.)
_Ruins_:
STEPHENS, J. L. Incidents of travel in Yucatan, 1843.
Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan,
1841.
MAUDSLAY, A. P. Biologia Centrali-Americana Archaeology, 1889-1902.
HOLMES, W. H. Archaeological Studies among the Ancient Cities of
Mexico. (_Field Columbian Museum_, _Anthropological
Series_, vol I, 1895-1897.)
JOYCE, T. A. Mexican Archaeology. 1914.
SPINDEN, H. J. A study of Maya art. (Memoirs of the Peabody Museum,
vol. VI, 1913.)
GORDON, G. B., THOMPSON, E. H., and TOZZER, A. M. in Memoirs of the
Peabody Museum.
_Hieroglyphic writing_:
BOWDITCH, C. P. The numeration, calendar systems and astronomical
knowledge of the Mayas, 1910.
MORLEY, S. G. An introduction to the study of the Maya hieroglyphs,
(Bulletin 57, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1915.)