Complex sentence: The highest Mayapan nobility, for example, is stated to have served continually in the temples; for the early Choles, no regular priesthood is mentioned, so that one might assume that the chiefs performed the priestly functions themselves.
Split into simpler sentences: The highest Mayapan nobility, for example, is stated to have served continually in the temples. For the early Choles, no regular priesthood is even mentioned, so that one might assume that the chiefs performed the priestly functions themselves.