Mayan warfare

MAYAN WARFARE

The Mayans had thought to have been peaceful, but the role of inter-polity warfare as a factor in the development and perpetuation of Maya society. The goals and motives in the Mayan culture were not absolutely understood, but there are archeological clues into what there actions told us. These include structure complexes, artistic and epigraphical depictions of war, and weapons such as obsidian blades and projectile points. The Mayan's engaged in warfare because of violent warfare for political control of people and resources. The Mayans did have projectile technology, but the more actions came from the thrusting, jabbing and stabbing close range.

The Mayan's are very unique in which they do a lot differently than other tribes and that's what's interesting. The Mayan's are one of the most unique tribes in all of tribe history. Also the Mayan's distanced themselves from enemies as about of 2 to 8 days travel just to be precautious and so the enemies can't get them from a reasonable good distance of long range. Archaeologists for a long time believed the ancient Maya to be harmless and peaceful people. We now know that Maya warfare was intense, chronic, and irresolvable, because limits of food supply and transportation made it impossible for any Maya kingdom to unite the whole region in an empire.

The archaeological record shows that wars became more hard and bloody also more intense and frequent toward the time of the Classic collapse. That evidence comes from discoveries of several types since the Second World War: Archaeological excavations of massive buildings surrounding many Maya sites; vivid depictions of warfare and captives on stone monuments and on the ceramics and murals; and the decipherment of  Maya writing, much of which proved to consist of royal inscriptions boasting of conquests. Maya kings fought to capture and torture one another.