The basic Maya structure was the hay
hut, which housed most of the Mayan population. The walls were made of mud or stone and
were covered with wooden poles. These poles were no taller than two meters. On the top of
these sticks, the structure rests and it has another 3.5 to 4.5 meters of height on top.
These sticks hold together the strongly tilted, two-sided hay form.
As for the stone huts, they were made of limestone. They used limestone
because it was very abundant and was very easy to shape. These two types of houses were
very similar, the only real difference being the material with which they were made.
Bibliography:
Chrisp, Peter, Looking Into the Past: The Maya, New York, Thomson
Learning, 1994
The basic Maya structure was the hay
hut, which housed most of the Mayan population. The walls were made of mud or stone and
were covered with wooden poles. These poles were no taller than two meters. On the top of
these sticks, the structure rests and it has another 3.5 to 4.5 meters of height on top.
These sticks hold together the strongly tilted, two-sided hay form.