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The Maya

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Maya

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Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian source developed with Maya participants for living communities, languages, calendars, and contemporary cultural authority; a corrective to vanished-people framing.

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The 'vanished Maya' framing is a misrepresentation: some Classic-period centers declined, while Maya peoples, communities, and languages continue today.

The archaeological decline of some cities is real, but the disappearance of Maya people is false.
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The listed human-remains and isotope studies provide context-specific evidence; they do not support generalization from sampled precolonial remains to all ancient or living Maya communities.

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