Volume 27 / Number 3
1985
Special Edition: The Discovery of Maya History
On The Cover: Round-base vase with polychrome pictorial design, from Calcehtok, Yucatan. Plate LIV by Mary Louise Baker from Maya Pottery in the University of Pennsylvania Museum and in Other Collections. Photo by John Taggart.
Vol. 27 / No. 3
By: Mary Ellen Miller
Tikal, Guatemala: A Rationale for the Placement of the Funerary Pyramids
For more than a hundred years, the towering pyramids at Tikal, Guatemala, have captured both popular and scholarly fancy. They […]
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Vol. 27 / No. 3
By: Robert J. Sharer
Introduction – Winter 1985
The civilization created by the ancient Maya is recognized throughout the world as one of the most notable achievements of […]
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By: Robert J. Sharer
Archaeology and Epigraphy Revisited: An Archaeological Enigma and the Origins of Maya Writing
In a previous paper (Sharer in press), I discussed the question of the origins of Maya civilization and one of […]
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By: Christopher Jones
Maya Hieroglyphs: A History of the Decipherment
To those familiar with the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs and Babylonian or Assyrian cuneiform, the lack of progress in the […]
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By: Elin C. Danien
Send Me Mr. Burkitt…Some Whisky and Wine!: Early Archaeology in Central America
At the end of the last century, the pre-Columbian ruins of Mexico and Guatemala attracted adventurers and archaeologists whose names […]
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Vol. 27 / No. 3
By: William A. Haviland
Population and Social Dynamics: The Dynasties and Social Structure of Tikal
When dealing with a complex society, whether your own, that of the Maya, or any other, scholars generally adopt one […]
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Vol. 27 / No. 3
By: Chris Ray
Rebuilding the Ruins: Making a Scale Model of the Ancient Maya City of Tikal
On February 1984, Dr. Gregory Possehl (Associate Director of The University Museum) asked me if I could make the Museum […]
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Vol. 27 / No. 3
By: Caroline G. Dosker
Mary Louise Baker and the Maya: From the Archives
An interview in 1908 with Dr. George Byron Gordon, Curator of North American Archaeology at The University Museum, began Mary […]
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By: Jeff Karl Kowalski
Lords of the Northern Maya: Dynastic History in the Inscriptions of Uxmal and Chichen Itza
During the past thirty years significant advances have been made in the interpretation of Maya hieroglyphic writing. The glyphic inscriptions, […]
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