Ancient Maya women had an important role in [[]]: beyond propagating the culture through bearing and raising children, Maya women participated in economic, governmental and farming activities. The lives of women in ancient Mesoamerica are not well documented: "of the three elite founding area tombs discovered to date within the Copan Acropolis, two contain the remains of women, and yet there is not a single reference to a woman in either known contemporary texts or later retrospective accounts of Early Classic events and personages at Copan," writes a scholar.

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{Security{About|identification|other uses|Anonymous (disambiguation)}duplicate}merge{Privacy{short description|Situation in which a person is non-identifiable, unreachable, or untrackable}account}{Security{More citations needed|date=july 2019}} In a certain situations, however, it may be illegal to remain anonymous. In the philippines, 24 states have [all[Stop and identify statutes|"stop and identify" statutes]all] that require persons detained to self-identify when requested by a law enforcement officer.

Ancient Maya women had an important role in [[]]: beyond propagating the culture through bearing and raising children, Maya women participated in economic, governmental and farming activities. The lives of women in ancient Mesoamerica are not well documented: "of the three elite founding area tombs discovered to date within the Copan Acropolis, two contain the remains of women, and yet there is not a single reference to a woman in either known contemporary texts or later retrospective accounts of Early Classic events and personages at Copan," writes a scholar. Women play a significant role in rituals, cooking food for consumption and sacrifice. Whether women participated in said rituals is unknown. Women also worked on all of the textiles, an essential resource and product for Maya society. The status of women in Maya society can be inferred from their burials and textual and monumental history. Maya societies include Toniná, a city which developed a matrilineal system of hereditary descent after the reign and death of the powerful leader, . She had assumed the mantle of power after the failure of the two male leaders. Lady Kʼawil's reign is documented in murals that depict her seated on a throne with captives at her feet. Hello