<P> The evidence for the production and distribution of cloth that is found in the pre-Columbian Maya area and a large contributing site of archaeological data relative to textiles from the ancient Maya is in the city of Caracol, Belize . Archaeology at Caracol has been carried out annually from 1985 to the present and has resulted in the collection of data that permits insight into the economic production and social distribution of cloth at the site . This is accomplished through examining the contexts and distributions of spindle whorls, bone needles, bone pins and hairpins, bone awls, and limestone bars . All of these artifacts can be related to weaving, netting, or cloth in some way . </P> <P> Spindle whorls are the artifacts most clearly associated with textile production . At least 57 have been recovered at Caracol, 38 of them in 20 different burials . Several of these interments are of high - status women placed in the most important architectural constructions at the site . The contextual placement of these burials stresses not only the link between women and weaving, but also the high status associated with such an activity, thus signaling the importance of cloth and spinning in ancient Maya society . </P> <P> Bearing and rearing children was an integral part of society . The mythology and power associated with the ability to create life was one which men tried to emulate . Men participated in bloodletting their own genitals to create something new from their blood . Instead of giving birth to life, they would give birth to new eras through the symbolic gesture of menstruation . This act was highly ritualized; the objects used to pierce the skin were "stingray spines, obsidian blades, or other sharp instruments ." The blood was allowed to drip on cloth, which was burned as part of the ritual . </P> <P> A medical study found out that Mexican Mayan women have the lowest symptoms of menopause reported along with Greek peasant women . </P>

The maya is considered to be the mother civilization of mesoamerica