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| Caribbean | - Canter, Ronald
- 2006-11-28
- Yucatan Channel and Trade.
- This article summarizes some of the evidence for the passage of Maya trade items and ideas eastward, and examines factors affecting canoe navigation across both the Yucatan Channel and the Straits of Florida. The recent tracing of jade artifacts in Antigua to parent mines in Guatemala indicates that there was past trade across the Yucatan Channel. Additional references document trade between Cuba and Florida. Click to view the entire paper
For questions or comments regarding this research please send email to: Ronald.L.Canter@faa.gov
| | | | Costa Rica | - Hoopes, John
- 2007-04-10
- In Search of Nature: Imagining the Precolumbian Landscapes of Ancient Central America.
- Human impact on the ecology of the New World did not begin with the arrival of European settlers. Nor is the story of twelve millennia of human occupation one of "low impact" with few lasting effects. In fact, it is likely that alteration of the landscape in the indigenous past was at least as significant as it has been in the European present. Click to view the entire paper
For questions or comments regarding this research please send email to: hoopes@ku.edu
| | | | Maya | - Callaway, Carl
- 2007-12-05
- The Maya Cross at Palenque: A Reappraisal.
- The following work reevaluates one of the most famous images in Classic Maya art, the Maya cross from Palenque, Mexico (250–900 A.D.). The study offers new findings that revise past ideas about the cross' material identity, mythical origins and proper name. Click to view the entire paper
For questions or comments regarding this research please send email to: ahchich1@yahoo.com
| | | - Weeks, John
- 2007-12-05
- Notes on a letter from Brasseur de Bourbourg.
- A note from the French abbè Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg to Karl Hermann Berendt found in a book at the library of the University of Pennsylvania Museum is contextualized. Biographical summaries are provided for Brasseur de Bourbourg and Berendt, and the fate of Brasseur’s library during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, and Berendt’s adopted son are discussed. Click to view the entire paper
For questions or comments regarding this research please send email to: weeksj@pobox.upenn.edu
| | | - Kerr, Justin
- 2007-02-05
- A Possible Origin of the Form of the "Way" Glyph.
- Illustrated notes on the origin of of the Maya "Way" glyph. Click to view the entire paper
For questions or comments regarding this research please send email to: mayavase@verizon.net
| | | - Martinez, Christopher
- 2007-02-05
- La Mitología en el Juego de Pelota, del mito a la arquitectura.
- La Mitología en el Juego de Pelota, del mito a la arquitectura, explica como las antiguas culturas prehispanicas trataron de replicar lo que veian en la naturaleza, y al hacerlo se garantizaban una comunicacion directa entre los dioses creadores y los señores de Xibalba. Todo esto explicado a través de la comprension y estudio del Popol Vuh, libro sagrado de los Quichés Click to view the entire paper
For questions or comments regarding this research please send email to: bartucosteve@hotmail.com
| | | - Mora Marin, David
- 2007-02-05
- Two Incised Shell Silhouette Plaques at Dumbarton Oaks.
- Two Mayan hieroglyphic texts, incised on silhouette shell pendants and housed at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, are described and analyzed epigraphically and paleographically. The results suggest a Late Classic dating, and also that the two conform to the dedicatory text genre, although to different degrees: one could be used to define the Primary Standard Sequence as originally postulated by Coe 1973, while the other, though apparently self-referential as well, is somewhat intractible at this point. Click to view the entire paper
For questions or comments regarding this research please send email to: davidmm@unc.edu
| | | - Andrews, Anthony
- 2006-10-29
- Some Historic Notes and Observations on Isla Cancun.
- A brief history of Isla Cancun from the conquest to modern times. Click to view the entire paper
For questions or comments regarding this research please send email to: andrews@ncf.edu
| | | - Brown, Clifford, Carlos Peraza Lope, Walter Witschey and Rhianna Rogers
- 2006-10-26
- Results of Survey in Central Yucatan, Mexico.
- In 2005, we performed both purposive and systematic survey in the central portion of the state of Yucatan, Mexico. Our project area extended from Acanceh in the northwest to Yaxuna in the northeast, south to Peto, west to Mani, and then returned north to Acanceh after passing through the site of Mayapan. We investigated approximately 35 sites, most of which were previously unreported, and we systematically surveyed approximately 10 km of transects, finding a relatively high density of rural settlement. The survey provided significant new information about settlement patterns in this key central area of the Maya lowlands. Click to view the entire paper
For questions or comments regarding this research please send email to: ctbrown@fau.edu
| | | - Brown, Clifford and Walter Witschey
- 2006-10-25
- The Geographic Analysis of Ancient Maya Settlement and Polity.
- Presentation (text and powerpoint slides) discussing the authors' use of GIS to analyze spatial data sets relating to ancient Maya settlement patterns and polities. Click to view the entire paper
For questions or comments regarding this research please send email to: ctbrown@fau.edu
| | | - Hixson, David
- 2006-10-04
- Measuring a Maya Metropolis.
- A brief newsletter summary of remote sensing and settlement pattern survey work in the western Maya wetlands of Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico. Click to view the entire paper
For questions or comments regarding this research please send email to: chunchucmil@yahoo.com
| | | | Mesoamerica | - Stross, Brian
- 2007-08-23
- The Mesoamerican Sacrum Bone: Doorway to the Otherworld.
- This study links body symbolism, religious experience, and visual representation through a consideration of the sacrum bone and the surrounding pelvic girdle in cosmological traditions of Mesoamerica. An argument is put forward, using ethnographic, linguistic, and iconographic evidence, that the sacrum bone was a "sacred" bone, that it played a significant part in some Prehispanic Mesoamerican iconographic and cosmological traditions as it did in some Old World cultures, that it was related to reproduction, fertility, and reincarnation, and that in Mesoamerica the sacrum represented one index of the more generalized but variously manifested "portals" or doorways permitting translocation of shamans, spirits, and deities between worlds or levels of the cosmos. Click to view the entire paper
For questions or comments regarding this research please send email to: bstross@mail.utexas.edu
| | | - Schele, Elaine
- 2007-07-07
- Potential Artistic Representations of the Snake Hemipenis In Mesoamerican Art.
- This work is the result of the use of ethology, the observation of animal behavior, to gain special insight into the mind of the ancient indigenous Mesoamerican. Through this mechanism, I have sought to understand how Mesoamericans might have seen the unusual characteristics of the snake, particularly the rattlesnake, and why they seem to have used the snake hemipenis in their artwork. I discuss and display several examples of this art, such as clay figurines and the Maya ruler's loincloth apron. I discuss possible reasons why Mesoamericans would have thought that the snake and its phallus were important icons and how they may have multiple meanings. I suggest that additional work should be done to identify why the Maya
might have considered breath and the snake hemipenis as related. To my knowledge, there has been no previous documentation in the literature about the use of the hemipenis in ancient Mesoamerican art or in any other artworks throughout the world. Click to view the entire paper
For questions or comments regarding this research please send email to: eschele@mail.utexas.edu
| | | | Olmec | - Magni, Caterina
- 2012-02-08
- Olmec Writing The Cascajal "Block" - New Perspectives.
- Between 1200 and 500 B.C., the Olmecs, the first of the great civilizations of ancient Mexico, created a writing system that consisted of hundreds of signs. This vast index first appeared on terracotta and later on stone; its use extended from the Gulf coast to the Pacific coast, passing through the Central Mexican Plateau.
The motifs were written on various materials. They sometimes appear in total disarray, while at other times they are set down in lines or columns. Whether the configuration is fractured or tight, there is always a direction to be followed, a semantic coherence, and the use of plastic and spatial conventions. This elaborate code supports and expresses an extremely sophisticated manner of thinking, which refers primarily to religious notions but also to a lesser extent, to the socio-political domain. Click to view the entire paper
For questions or comments regarding this research please send email to: caterina.magni@paris-sorbonne.fr
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