Justine M. Shaw, White Roads of the Yucatan: Changing Social Landscapes of the Yucatec Maya

摘要

Among the Native American civilisations noted for their roadways are the Inca (and their Nasca predecessors), the Anasazi and the Maya. What student of ancient American culture has not encountered the popular question: why did these people build roads if they did not have a wheel? Save for a special section of the journal Ancient Mesoamerica in 2001, only the Maya roadways, the so-called sacbe (literally 'white road' in Yucatec Maya, plural sacbeob), have lacked thorough treatment, until now.