Maya Archaeologist is an autobiographical account of explorations in Mayan ruins by J. Eric Thompson, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Maya Indians of Mexico and Central America. Based on his expeditions from 1926 to 1936 - when conditions in the Maya area were very close to those in the years of the Conquest - this book is an intensely personal account of the investigation of the "stone cities," such as Uxmal, Chichén Itzá, Copán, Tikal, and Quirigua, as well as lively portraits of the archaeologists who probed this civilization - Morley, Gann, Ruppert, Vaillant, Roys, and many others.
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J. Eric S. Thompson, one of the world's foremost Maya scholars, is a veteran of archaeological field expeditions to southern Mexico and Central America. Associated with the Carnegie Institution of Washington for many years, he now lives near Cambridge, England, where he continues his investigations of Maya hieroglyphic writing. He is the author of A Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs and Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: An Introduction, both invaluable tools for Mayanists. His other books include The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization, the classic account of the prehistoric Mayas, and Maya Archaeologist, the delightful story of his archaeological adventures. All are published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
Norman Hammond teaches archaeology at Boston University, and is the author of numerous books on the Maya and Mesoamerican archaeology.
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The reliques and the things of fame in this book are not in Illyria, but in southern Mexico and the adjacent lands of Guatemala and British Honduras. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
votive cache, chicle camp, slung our hammocks, eccentric flints, roof crest, cohune palms, mahogany logs, sacred cenote, copal incense, quetzal feathers, main court, hieroglyphic texts, ceremonial center, rain gods Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Antonio, San Jose, British Honduras, Chichen Itza, Punta Gorda, Mountain Cow, San Luis, Central America, Carnegie Institution, San Pedro, Belize River, Benque Viejo, British Museum, Kaxil Uinic, Quintana Roo, Rio Bec, Other Ruins, Temple of the Warriors, Bishop Landa, Initial Series, Orange Walk, Eugenio Mai, Harvard University, Mengel Company, Peabody Museum New!
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The reliques and the things of fame in this book are not in Illyria, but in southern Mexico and the adjacent lands of Guatemala and British Honduras. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
votive cache, chicle camp, slung our hammocks, eccentric flints, roof crest, cohune palms, mahogany logs, sacred cenote, copal incense, quetzal feathers, main court, hieroglyphic texts, ceremonial center, rain gods Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Antonio, San Jose, British Honduras, Chichen Itza, Punta Gorda, Mountain Cow, San Luis, Central America, Carnegie Institution, San Pedro, Belize River, Benque Viejo, British Museum, Kaxil Uinic, Quintana Roo, Rio Bec, Other Ruins, Temple of the Warriors, Bishop Landa, Initial Series, Orange Walk, Eugenio Mai, Harvard University, Mengel Company, Peabody Museum New!
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- Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on page 3
- The Inscriptions of Peten (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publications No 437) by Sylvanus G. Morley in Front Matter
- Following Mateo by Tom Molanphy on page 7, page 81, and Back Matter
- Tatiana Proskouriakoff: Interpreting the Ancient Maya by Char Solomon in Back Matter
- Moon Handbooks Yucatan Peninsula by Liza Prado Chandler on page 499
- Moon Handbooks Cancun and Cozumel: Including Isla Mujeres, Playa del Carmen, and the Costa Maya by Gary Prado Chandler on page 290
- Moon Handbooks: Cancun 6 Ed: Mexico's Caribbean Coast by Chicki Mallan in Back Matter
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