為了給研究瑪雅課題的專家和工作人員提供方便,我們將本書的參考書目和眾多學者的研究成果分為14類：（1）考古學；（2）民族學；（3）曆史學；（4）藝術；（5）象形文字、年表和天文學；（6）農學；（7）語言學；（8）醫學；（9）現代瑪雅；（10）遊曆探索；（11）氣候、地理學和地質學；（12）植物學；（13）動物學；（14）小說。
下麵是按照作者和年代排列的參考書目列表,前麵帶有星號（*）標記的是向一般讀者特別推薦的內容。
1.考古學
ANDREWS, E. WYLLYS
1939. “A Group of Related Structures from Yucatan,” Contributions to American Anthropology and History, Vol. V, No. 26; Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 509. Washington, D.C.
1943. “The Archaeology of Southwestern Campeche,” Contributions to American Anthropology and History, Vol. VIII, No. 40;Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 546. Washington, D.C.
BAKER, M. LOUISE
1936. “Lintel 3 Restored.... and Why,” Univ. Mus. Bull.,University of Pennsylvania, Vol. VI, No. 4, pp. 120-23. Philadelphia.
BANCROFT, H. H.
1882. The Native Races of the Pacific States. 5 vols. San Francisco.
Biología Centrali-Americana
1889-1902. Biología Centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America. Edited by E.DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin. 61 secs. London. See A. P. MAUDSLAY,1889-1902, for the section on archaeology.
BLOM, FRANS
1932. “The Maya Game pok-ta-pok (called tlachtli by the Aztecs).” Middle American Research Series, Publication No.4, pp. 486-530. Department of Middle American Research, Tulane University, New Orleans.
1932a. “Commerce, Trade and Monetary Units of the Maya.” Middle American Research Series, Publication No. 4, pp. 532-56. Department of Middle American Research, Tulane University, New Orleans.