Hello group! Perhaps you remember the discovery earlier this year of ancient footprints in Mexico believed to be 40,000 years old. (See messages #234-235.)...
Hello group! A new discovery has been made at the site of Naachtun in Peten. The international research team that has been working on the site since 2002 (see...
Hi everyone! Since the holydays are coming and many of us will have more time to read or will be looking for books as gifts, I thought I would share with you a...
Jungle find opens "new chapter" in Maya history Archaeologists are reporting the earliest known portrait of a woman from the ancient civilization. (Story in...
Hello group! Here is some more information on the discovery of the earliest known portrait of a Maya woman. And for those interested in gender studies in Maya...
Hi everyone! I've been reading comments from some people who are not convinced that the portrait found on stela 26 at Naachtun is female. I'm not an expert in...
Hi Martin and all. I chanced upon three fascinating articles from the PARI Journal relating to the mobility of ruling dynasties during the Classic Period. The...
Hi again! I mentioned ealier that some people had doubts about the female identity of the portrait on stela 26 found at Naachtun. Well, I found more info...
Hi Mike! Thanks for sharing this fascinating research. I wasn't able to open the link to the article, but your explanations were enough to get me interested. I...
Hi Martin. Actually, I will check my notes from Guenter's talk in Guatemala when I get home. To give a quick answer to your question, if the Snake kings were...
Hello group! This is just a reminder that the 10th European Maya Conference in Leiden organized by Wayeb (The Association of European Mayanists) is happening...
Thanks alot for all this great information Mike. Enjoy your trip and keep us informed. Martin L. ... legitimacy ... have ... associated ... stela ... other...
Hi all! For those interested in a deeper analysis of the female portrait found on stela 26 at Naachtun, here is the link to a comment by mayanist Michael D....
Hello group! I have just heard of an archaeological zone called Cantona located in Puebla, Mexico. This city which developed in the Teotihuacan-El Tajin trade...
Hi everyone! First the bad news: "A billion-dollar Canadian corporation, Fortis Inc., and Belize's government are racing to build a dam that would flood 22...
Hi again! I was recently reminded that the "Lords of Creation" exhibition is about to close in Los Angeles to open in Dallas in February and New York in June....
Hi Mike! I finally managed to open the PARI journal link with Simon Martin's article: "Of snakes and bats: shifting identities at Calakmul". The 2004 Guatemala...
I recall that Penn wasted little time getting new field reports out about the dig at Tikal and that there are a good number of them. However, when looking for...
Hi caliburn11! Indeed, the Tikal reports from the famous Tikal Project dwarf other publications on Peten archaeology. The Mirador Basin project field reports...
Hi Martin, Last week I did a long google search for information on the Mirador Basin and surprisingly came up with a number of interesting reports that I...
Martin, What did you think of the PARI journal article by Simon Martin on the mobility of the Snake Dynasty? Also, although there is an article by Stanley...
Thanks, Mike. Google had not been helping me much, and the link you posted did not exactly work, so I just erased everything after .edu and went to the BYU...
Hi Mike! The article seems in line with my previous idea "that a particular dynasty like the Kaan was not tied to a specific place when it came to legitimizing...
Hello group! In my latest post I wondered if there could be a relation between the demise of the Kaan dynasty at Calakmul and the collapse of other Classic...
Thanks for the additional information Mike! To follow on your last paragraph concerning the drought in northern Peten and the change of trade routes to the...
I would like to wish everyone in the group happy Holydays. I would also like to wish Mike and caliburn11 happy trails on their trip to Peten. Cheers! Martin L....
CAMPECHE: El maya, en peligro de extinción a pesar de sus 900 mil hablantes. (Fuente: La Jornada). Pese a que, según cálculos, en Guatemala, Honduras,...
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