Maya cuisine

thumb|Disc quern made of basalt stone thumb|Nepali women using quern-stones to grind grains

diet of the Ancient Mesoamerican civilization

thumb|280x280px|Burying the pibipollos, in Campeche. thumb|408x408px|Chachak waaj (pibil tamale) fresh out of the piib for Hanal Pixan (Mayan Day of the Dead) Pib (in Spanish) or píib (in Yucatec Maya, pronounced or ), is a typical earth oven of the Yucatán peninsula, in Mexico. This technique probably has a pre-Hispanic origin. It consists of digging a hole, lighting a stove with firewood and stones, and cooking the food (traditionally pork or chicken) over low heat, all covered with more soil. Today, many people in Mexico believe that "pib" refers to tamales cooked in the earth oven (called