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>>63662745Not nearly as much, but you can see some Maya weapons in
>>63659437 in the stone axe/spiked club section, the "Short Glaive" from the Glasgow version of the Lienzo de Tlaxcala is also likely being wielded by a group of Mayas given it's depicting a campaign in Guatemala, see also the Siege Tower and Flat Curved Stick sections, albiet without images added yet. As the Angus Mcbride art you posted shows, fancier Maya spears tended to have a "sheath" of jaguar pelt or some other material, sometimes stone mosaics, etc covering the top quarter or so of the shaft, then feather ornaments at the bottom of that, or sometimes rather then a sheath it was a serrated section
I mentioned that Mexica campaigns didn't often do total warfare, but it is more discussed among late Classic Maya warfare. I say "more discussed" rather then "more common" because i'm not actually sure the evidence pans out for it being that much more common among the late Classic Maya, or it's just more widely mentioned for them: It's not as if they did it more often then they didn't (generally speaking they were still fighting to establish tax paying subjects or to install rulers rather then to wipe out cities), and it's not as if the Mexica never ever did it. There's also been a shift for a while showing that the presumed greater frequency and "brutality" of late Classic Maya warfare may have been the case earlier in the Classic period too, but I most often see that mentioned in relation to city walls or temporary palisades being something that's not as late-classic specific as we thought, I'm not sure if total warfare itself is established as being as frequent earlier or if the walls merely imply it
And on that note, walls and palisades seem to be more common in Classic Maya and I believe even Early Postclassic (maybe late too) Maya warfare then in Central Mexico, though I've also spoken to people who say that it wasn't as rare in Central mexico as often stated either.
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