Abstract
YAXUNÁ IS AN extraordinary place. This may sound like hyperbole or simple exaggeration, but the volume you hold in your hands will convince you that the ancient Maya city of Yaxuná is a place like no other.
All archaeological sites are venues for contemplating the arbitrary boundary between past and present. When does the past become past? How is the present ever separated from what came before? In thinking and learning about Yaxuná, familiar terms such as “ancient” or “memory” take on profoundly new depths of meaning, enlivened by the realities of a place that Maya people have called home