MATERNITY a pregnant woman before the delivery. In and particularly Aztec Mayan the Central American civilizations and the woman had a fundamental role: in the battles between the Mayan cities; that winner asserted its power; not with the military occupation; but through the extermination of the women weel-off people of the rival group. He is this that assumes the archeologi as a result of the discovery of one encodes with the rests of the bodies of two women in the ancient city of Wak?(in Guatemala; 13/6/2005). The grave; recovered from the neolaureata Michelle Rich; would constitute a precious aid to the definition of the role of the woman in the Mayan society. Probably it had an enormous importance; since in every political contest or dissidio she was its dead women to determine who effectively would have taken the power. sculpture pre-Columbian; s.d.