Mayan History and Beyond

I just finished a wonderful workshop at Yale University put on by Programs in International Educational Resources (PIER), the Council on Latin America and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) and the Peabody Museum of Natural History.
http://peabody.yale.edu/teachers/indigenous-peoples-americas-institute

I am in the process of organizing the information I learned into lesson plans to teach ceramic/pottery students about the methods and techniques used by the Ancient Mayan and some of these same methods and techniques that are used today in the Mayan culture.

For starters, lets point out where exactly the Mayans were located. Here are several maps:

This first map shows the anicent Mayan territory before our modern-day borders were placed:

This map shows different artifacts and where they were discovered:

And finally, this map shows the modern-day borders with the Mayan area highlighted: