The Maya civilization still excites minds of researchers and fantasts. Its mysterious disappearance, knowledge which was possessed by the people became a subject of both scientific researches, and fantastic novels. At the same time very few people thought of how the Maya what nowadays existing race they resembled looked.
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1. Anthropologists cannot refer appearance of the Maya today to one of races – Maya are not similar to Mongoloid group, are far from Europeans. There is an opinion that Maya are a little similar to "armenoidny" type of people and therefore it is possible to see a certain similarity in appearance of these people and ancient shumer.
2. According to representations of scientists, Maya were brakhitsefala, that is, they had short, but wide heads. Such opinion developed according to the images found at excavation, and it is quite proved: at the people of the Maya it was accepted to form the heads, squeezing them special plates from early age. To babies strong bound boards that the skull as a result turned out flat.
3. As for a constitution, here the Maya practically differ in nothing from modern people. On images it is possible to see also elderly people with an excess weight, and the young men athletically put. Infrequently, but images of man's faces meet mustache, a beard though on the whole men's population of the Maya was represented without vegetation on a face.
4. Faces of tribes of the Maya are wide cheekbones and aquiline noses. Small growth, men were slightly higher than women, their growth was about one and a half meters – the average growth of the modern teenager.
5. Life of the Maya was constructed around agriculture, they generally grew up a maize, sweet potatoes, beans, pumpkin, cocoa and cotton. The products were used both for own needs, and for sale. In processing of the earth of the Maya did not use animals, everything became by forces of people. Corn flat cakes were the main product which residents of the cities of the Maya ate. The main meal fell on evening, Maya also corn flat cakes and beans had breakfast.
6. Maya drank a lot of chocolate as grew up cocoa beans. Fried and ground, they were mixed with cornmeal, cooked drink. Many fruit – a papaya, an annona also grew in gardens of the Maya, they grew up and melons.
7. Houses of the Maya were short-lived and impractical constructions, built dwellings of rods or a tree, however, sometimes and on the stone basis. Maya lived where there was no cold weather therefore built such houses, and wore clothes only for cover of nakedness – loincloths and capes. For the night they, however, took cover the thin blankets called a coat.