Maya Mesoamerican Periods and Cultures Archaeology

Maya Mesoamerican Periods and Cultures Archaeology

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- Online version of Mundo Maya Magazine, specializing in the Maya culture. Available in English and Spanish. Detailed articles on archeological topics.

- From ScienceDaily, University of Cincinnati professors found evidence of a major environmental transformation that helps to explain a puzzle that has stumped Maya scholars for decades.
- From the Miami Herald, more than two dozen artifacts said to be valuable Mayan pieces buried with the dead are the focus of a legal dispute 1,000 years later
- Using a community centered perspective to examine how rural Maya affected and were affected by political changes.
- Researching caves with ritual activity in southwestern Peten and northern Alta Verapaz. Photos, maps, reports. (English and Spanish)
- Documents current investigations at the largest archaeological site known in the country.
- Photos from Uxmal, Labna, Sayil, Chacmultun, Becan, Xpujil, Tikal, Xunantunich, Lamanai, Kohunlich, Chicanna, Edzna, and Dzibilnocac.
- Includes: news, current research, publications, links, and contact information.
- Glenn Welker describes the locations and development of Maya civilization. Michael Lemonick gives a history of the related archeological research.
- Two photo collections of art from the classic period (400-800 CE), one of vases and the other of stellae at Copan, Honduras.
- Offers monthly programs and lectures: includes newsletter, calendar of events, and links.
- Photos by John C. Mureiko.
- Photographs by a traveler of this site notable for the tallest pyramid in the Yucatán.
- Provides maps, movies, images, reports and articles presenting the urban site of Yaxuná, Mexico.
- Features a photo gallery of Jeffrey Jay Foxx, ethnographic photographer. Includes a biography, a list of exhibitions and books, and related links.
- Introductory site to Maya culture and the major Mayan archaeological sites.
- Facts and artifacts relative to Mayan archaeology, prehispanic pyramid architecture, Latin America, Mesoamerica, featuring Olmec jade, stelae and sculpture at Copan, and showing how pre-Columbian art can be reproduced aided by new digital technology.
- Mayan hieroglyphic writing, language, and calendar; includes syllabary and Yucatec sound files.
- The ruins of a Maya city have been discovered near a tributary of the Rio San Pedro in northern Guatemala.
- Scientific research of the ruins of an ancient Maya city and its culture in the Yucatan region. Includes various multimedia presentations.
- An interdisciplinary research initiative into the prehistory and ecology of the Belize River Valley. Offers photographs of monuments, maps, field reports, publications, and contact details.
- Explore the ancient ruins of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula built by the Mayan Civilization.
- Photographs, rubbings, and illustrations, featuring rubbings of stelae from 1970-71 in Guatemala; views of monuments published in 1844 by Catherwood.
- Project by Walter R. T. Witschey and Clifford T. Brown, to study settlement patterns: includes research papers and maps.
- Art featuring designs from the Tzolkin, the ritual calendar of the Maya.
- Ongoing archaeological dig at a large, yet little-known, site in El Salvador.
- Bulletin board featuring an archive of contributed tourist photographs.
- Information from Chichen Itza, Uxmal, and Dzibilchaltun. Includes location, photos, history, and services.
- Zacpeten, an archaeological site in Peten, Guatemala, was heavily occupied during the Middle Preclassic, Terminal Classic, and Late Postclassic periods.
- Aimed at understanding the use of caves by the prehistoric Maya. Photographs and information on the caves.
- Discussion of various acoustical oddities of the Great Ballcourt and the Castillo at Chichen Itza and the pyramids at Palenque.
- Photographs and descriptions by Phil Konstantin. Includes Chichen Itza, Kabah, Uxmal, Labna, Xlapak, Sayil, Palenque, Xpujil, Becan and Museo de la Cultura Maya.
- Precolumbian portfolio features a collection of artifacts and sites from the ancient Americas, and a database archive of rollout and still photographs of vases, plates, and bowls. Find hints and helps to search the database.
- Formed by young scholars searching for academic contacts. Links professionals, students and amateurs for conferences, information exchange, and workshops. Links, bibliography, publications, collection inventories, news, and conference information.
- Virtual exhibition on Maya architecture with information, photos, plans, models and more.
- From New Scientist, Mayan civilization collapsed following a series of intense droughts, suggests the most detailed climatic study to date.
- Provides details of research conducted in Chunchucmil, located in the northwest corner of the Yucatan Peninsula. Includes an overview of the project, its history, fieldwork opportunities, a bibliography, and contact details.
- The project currently focuses on performance among the ancient Maya, with comparisons to other cultures and time periods increasingly included.

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