In other words, the rise of complex societies created the right conditions for the growth of medicine as a belief system and an occupation. 1 Leaving the belief system of medicine to the following two chapters, the present one continues to look at the day-to-day reality of sufferers, this time with a focus on the types of medical services that were available to them, first in Postclassic Mesoamerica, and then in the colonial world of New Spain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

Postclassic period 900 A.D. - 1521 A.D. - world of trade and tribute: Pictures of Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [Postclassic period 900 A.D. - 1521 A.D. - world of trade and tribute] Reference

The Postclassic center of Tulum is a walled city; these sites had to be in defensive positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversation: Mel Gibson's Maya] Reference

The Postclassic period was ambling along just fine, until the Spanish did their own version of a Mel Gibson movie on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orcs in Loincloths] Reference

Nonetheless, they provide the modern reader with a sense of the value system that helped to shape Postclassic Mesoamerican civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

This change in the way people lived coincided with a trend toward a decline in the stature of Mesoamericans, from the Preclassic to the Postclassic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

The skull of an older woman found in Treehole II exhibits the cranial deformation performed by the Maya from the Preclassic to the Postclassic periods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day One] Reference

Postclassic may suggest as much, but the really big fall of Maya civilization occurred at the end of the Late Classic period, during the ninth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orcs in Loincloths] Reference

The Postclassic period, while less glorious, was ambling along just fine, thank you, until the Spanish did their own version of a Mel Gibson movie on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orcs in Loincloths] Reference

From left: Victoria Rojas Garcia is writing her master's thesis on the continuation of the cenote cult in the northern Maya Lowlands in the Postclassic period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Meet the Crew] Reference

This encounter finalized the Late Postclassic period, terminology possibly encouraging critics to characterize the time as the "dying," "waning," "declining" -- you get the point -- days of Maya civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orcs in Loincloths] Reference

Then at around 40 feet, a small but significant find: a fragment from a ceramic incense burner with two lozenges and "Maya blue" paint, very similar to Postclassic (A.D. 900-1500) incense burners from the nearby site of Mayapán.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Five] Reference

"Evidence explicitly or implicitly asserts that Maya warfare was more frequent, more intense, more lethal, and less constrained by political/ideological conventions during the Terminal Classic/Early Postclassic than it had ever been before.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient Maya - A Commercial Empire] Reference

In the highly evolved society of Postclassic central Mexico, the tícitl (titici, plural), a Náhuatl word we might loosely translate as "doctor," or "someone skilled in the art of curing," was no simple healer, at least in Western conceptions of that word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

Sixteenth-century Spanish explorers traveling through Mexico's highlands marveled at the various uses of maguey, and the Aztecs and Mixtecs, neighbors of the Zapotec, celebrated the plant in the earlier bark-paper and deerskin pages of Postclassic period (A.D. 800-1520) codices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico's Wonder Plant] Reference

While the latter seems invented (perhaps based on the goddess Xtabay), the rest of the pantheon pertains to Late Postclassic and contact period Maya culture, although the cult of the Feathered Serpent (Kulkulcan) came in vogue in the Terminal Classic period, immediately after the collapse, in northern Yucatan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orcs in Loincloths] Reference

Map of the Postclassic Era: 900 A.D. - 1521 A.D. The Pre-Hispanic Era in Oaxaca.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Peoples of Mexico] Reference

It was 1900, the place Chichén Itzá, the Late Classic and Postclassic (ca. A.D.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parlours to Pyramids] Reference

So far, materials indicates an occupation dating from Middle-Preclassic (800-400 B. C) to Late-Postclassic (A.D.    From Wordnik.com.  [Things are Moving Really Fast « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site] Reference

Paintings of what the site may have looked like during the Classic period, a site map, and a photo of visitors on a tour accompany a description of the geography and archaeology of the site, which was occupied from the Middle Preclassic until the Early Postclassic (1000 B.C.    From Wordnik.com.  [Multimedia: What's On Line?] Reference

Auden on Mozart: Metalogue to the Magic Flute (Kyle Gann’s Postclassic).    From Wordnik.com.  [Amadeus and Marcos Baghdatis] Reference

CE), and continued throughout the Postclassic period until the arrival of the Spanish.    From Wordnik.com.  [AntiguaDailyPhoto.Com] Reference

1984, "Social and Political Organization in the Land of Cacao and Honey: Correlating the Archaeology and Ethnology of the Postclassic Lowland Maya.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliography For - The Ancient Maya] Reference

Map of the Postclassic Era.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico - history time-line overview - resource page] Reference