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Maya Archaeologist is an autobiographical account of explorations in Mayan ruins by J. Eric Thompson, one of the worlds 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, Chich?n Itz?, Cop?n, Tikal, and Quirigua, as well as lively portraits of the archaeologists who probed this civilization - Morley, Gann, Ruppert, Vaillant, Roys, and many others.

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title Maya Archaelogist author Thompson John Eric Sidney - photo 1
title:Maya Archaelogist
author:Thompson, John Eric Sidney.
publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin:0806112069
print isbn13:9780806112060
ebook isbn13:9780585169132
language:English
subjectThompson, John Eric Sidney,--Sir,--1898-1975, Archaeologists--Mexico--Biography, Archaeologists--Central America--Biography, Mayas--Antiquities, Mexico--Description and travel, Central America--Description and travel.
publication date:1994
lcc:F1435.T495 1994eb
ddc:972.81/016
subject:Thompson, John Eric Sidney,--Sir,--1898-1975, Archaeologists--Mexico--Biography, Archaeologists--Central America--Biography, Mayas--Antiquities, Mexico--Description and travel, Central America--Description and travel.
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Maya Archaeologist
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Maya Archaeologist
By J. Eric S. Thompson
Foreword by Norman Hammond
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN
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To Ralph L. Roys
Halach uinic of Maya scholarship,
mentor and friend
BY J. ERIC S. THOMPSON
Ethnology of the Mayas of Southern and Central British Honduras (Chicago, 1930)
Archaeological Investigations in the Southern Cayo District, British Honduras (Chicago, 1931)
Mexico before Cortez (New York, 1933)
Excavations at San Jos, British Honduras (Washington, 1939)
The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization (Norman, 1954; revised, 1966)
Thomas Gage's Travels in the New World (ed.) (Norman, 1958)
Maya Hieroglypyhic Writing: An Introduction (Norman, 1960)
A Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs (Norman, 1962)
Maya Archaeologist (Norman, 1963)
Maya History and Religion (Norman, 1970)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Thompson, John Eric Sidney, Sir, 18981975.
Maya archaeologist / by J. Eric S. Thompson; foreword by Norman Hammond.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8061-1206-9
1. Thompson, John Eric Sidney, Sir, 18981975. 2. Archaeologists
MexicoBiography. 3. ArchaeologistsCentral AmericaBiography.
4. MayasAntiquities. 5. MexicoDescription and travel. 6. Central
AmericaDescription and travel. I. Title.
F1435.T495 1994
972.81'016dc20Picture 3Picture 4Picture 5Picture 694-11738
Picture 7Picture 8Picture 9Picture 10Picture 11Picture 12CIP
Copyright 1963 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University, except for the Foreword, by Norman Hammond, copyright 1994 by the University of Oklahoma Press. All rights reserved.
Manufactured in the U.S.A.
First American edition, 1963
First paperback printing, 1971
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Contents
Acknowledgments
viii
Foreword
ix
Glossary and Key to Pronunciation
xv
1. Digging at Chichen Itza
3
2. Coba, Uxmal, and Other Ruins
42
3. Lubaantun, British Honduras
71
4. A Wild Goose Chase and Pusilha
100
5. Maya Ancient and Modern
118
6. The Cayo District, British Honduras
151
7. Cities of the Peten
183
8. Copan, Eastern Outpost
206
9. San Jose and La Honradez
223
10. Across the Peninsula of Yucatan
252
Epilogue
271
Index
274

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