Maya ArchaeologistMaya 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. |
Contents
Digging at Chichen Itza | 3 |
Merida Cathedral | 8 |
Atlantean Figures Chichen Itza | 27 |
A Find in the Temple of the Warriors | 34 |
Coba Uxmal and Other Ruins | 42 |
The Bishop and Mrs Proudie | 50 |
Lubaantun British Honduras | 71 |
following page | 78 |
Uaxactun | 158 |
Camps | 158 |
Architectural Effort in a Large and a Small Ceremonial Center | 158 |
Indoors and Outdoors | 158 |
Copan Sculpture | 158 |
Reconstructionary Drawings of Copan XVI Copan following page | 158 |
Pottery | 161 |
Archaeological Finds | 168 |
Buildings at Chichen Itza | 78 |
Coba | 78 |
Uxmal | 78 |
Maya and Their Students | 78 |
San Antonio British Honduras | 78 |
Masonry and Hieroglyphs | 78 |
BallCourt Marker Lubaantun | 85 |
Drummer | 96 |
A Wild Goose Chase and Pusilha | 100 |
Maya Ancient and Modern | 118 |
Scenes from Hieroglyphic Codex Madrid | 140 |
The Maggie B off Punta Gorda | 149 |
The Cayo District British Honduras | 151 |
Ceremonial Objects and BallCourt Marker | 158 |
Loading Mules Benque Viejo | 175 |
Cities of the Peten | 183 |
On the Trail in the Forest | 186 |
Animal Designs on Pottery | 202 |
Copan Eastern Outpost | 206 |
Hieroglyphs | 212 |
San Jose and La Honradez | 223 |
Part of Abandoned Kaxil Uinic | 233 |
Pottery Vase San Jose | 240 |
Across the Peninsula of Yucatan | 252 |
Eccentric Flints | 264 |
The Maya Area | 272 |
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