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As previously noted, the account of de Landa did not influence
those curiosity seekers prior to Brasseur de Bourbourg's dis-
covery of the abridged manuscript in Madrid in 1863, but was
considered the major source for their early history from the
time of its first publication. In de Landa we recognize that
most of the difficulties assaulting the pre-hispanic Maya were
predicated upon a belief in non-interference from contemporan-
eous non-Maya peoples. In modern perspective, this observation
falls easily into the category of internal causes--one of the
more workable major divisions for the study of the collapse
suggested by Sylvanus G. Morley, and more recently, Jeremy
Sabloff, who reviewed theories of. the collapse in terms of
internal and external causes. 1
Diego de Landa helped mold later interpretations of Maya
history in many ways. His work with the fallen heirs of the
Cocomes, -a once powerful Yucatecan family, and other native
informants, and the establishment of some dates of the Post-
Classic period wereimportant to the problem of the collapse.
He recognized an essential unity of the Maya over a broad area,
especially noting Chiapas, "because many terms and word con-
structions are identical in Chiapas and in Yucatan, and because
there are in Chiapas many remains of places which have been
1. Sylvanus Griswold Morley, The Ancient Maya, 3rd ed. rev.
by George Brainerd (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1956),
pp. 68-73; Jeremy A. Sabloff, "Major Themes in the Past Hypotheses
of the Maya Collapse," in The Classic Maya Collapse, ed. T.
Patrick Culbert (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
1973), p. 36.
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Wood, Jeffrey Clark. The Classic Maya Collapse: A Review of Evidence and Interpretations, thesis, December 1977; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc504349/m1/37/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .