Maya

CULTURES OF MEXICO
There are many cultures that existed in our country that left many contributions to the modern life but i approach in a special in the Mayan civilization..

The Mayancivilization habit a large part of the region known as Mesoamerica, in the present-day territories of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and in the period by five states in the south-east of Mexico:Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Yucatan, with a history of approximately 3000 years.

During this long time in the area spoke hundreds of dialects that generate today close to 44 differentMayan languages.

Villages "housing"
* There were houses where they lived the parents and the children, who were taken to old or young members of the family or outside it (example: Tulum). Alsohad multifamily buildings inhabited by people of common blood ties of high social position. The materials of the houses vary from walls and wooden ceilings and Palma to durable materials such as stoneand stucco. Also the dwelling could be formed by three main structures separated, and could build other separate structures.
Slept on some low platforms attached to the walls where they placedmattresses stuffed with cotton (the hammocks were an adaptation of the fishing nets, invention of the indigenous Caribs of Haiti come to Yucatan with the arrival of the Spaniards).

*Clothing
Much ofthe population was engaged in the agricultural days, therefore used adequate clothing for the conditions; in addition the clothing depended on the social level. Most people wore simply: women withsolon or hipline or a skirt and his cloak; and men with a kind of trousers called pate.
Among the accessories had hats, turbans, plumes, tiaras and conical hats. Usually the jade was widely used untilthe 900 a. C. (although not disappears) and then the gold jewelry. We can imagine, by the murals of Bonampak, wealth and grandeur that radiated such threads in the ceremonies and also in the battles,...