To aid the visitor interested in pre-Columbian
art in general and Mayan art in general this index provides a
helpful guide to all the other pages in the web site www.maya-art-books.
Covers Mayan pyramids, temples, ballcourts, archaeology, as well
as the photography and digital imaging equipment and software
that facilitates research and publication on prehispanic civilizations.
For additional links on Maya art and archaeology from an additional
web site, check out the complete index for www.maya-archaeology.org
We are adding new pages and new pictures of Maya art and archaeology
every month (easy to do, we have 40,000 color photographs of Maya
art, architecture, artifacts, and archaeology in our F.L.A.A.R.
Photo Archive). New pages are indicated
in color; edited changes in red.
- awards for F.L.A.A.R. Internet sites
- Antigua, Guatemala, new museum of Spanish
colonial art and also of Maya art
- Belize,
a wonderful country to visit; friendly people, great Maya ruins; recommended
hotels
- ballgame of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, lecture
abstract
- book list, Art
& Archaeology Book Service (office in
transit, will reopen by next year)
- new glossary of Maya iconography being prepared by F.L.A.A.R.
- camera equipment recommended
for use in museums or on expedition
- Chama style polychrome
Maya vases (see "Maya vase rollouts" as
well as "Mayan hieroglyphs")
- Chichicastenango
- collapse
of Mayan civilization and abandonment of the great city-states
- contact
- contact F.L.A.A.R. Photo Archive
- contact F.L.A.A.R. Digital Imaging Technology Center
- Copan, report on sculpture prepared
for IHAH; recommended hotels, restaurant, in
Copan
- credits and copyright
notice
- Dedolights, essential lights for photographing
artifacts
- desktop publishing (see
next list, at end of Maya archaeology list on this same page)
- digital imaging gateway
- epigraphy (see "Mayan
hieroglyphs, PSS")
- F.L.A.A.R. (grants
received and program with Japan's National Museum of Ethnology)
- glossary
of Maya iconography being finished by F.L.A.A.R.
- guides for the Mayan ruins of Tikal (recommended tourist guides for
Guatemala)
- hotels at Maya ruins (see also "travel to Maya lands, hotels")
- Hotel
Casa
Santo Domingo, Antigua, Guatemala
- other hotels in Antigua
- hotels in Panajachel
and around Lake Atitlan
- hotels in Chichicastenango
- hotels at or near Sayaxche, Peten (ruins of Seibal, Aguateca, Dos Pilas)
- Hotel
Guayacan,
Sayaxche, Peten, Guatemala
- Hotel
Ecologico Posada Caribe, La Montana travel agency
- guides and boatmen
at Sayaxche
- hotels around Tikal (Flores,
Lake Peten Itza, Santa Elena, San Benito)
- Hotel
Maya International, Santa Elena (Flores), Peten
- hotels within Tikal National
Park, Posada
de la Selva (Jungle Lodge)
- reality
check for hotels (the painful truth of what
really to expect at local hotels)
- tropical gardens at Villa de los Castellanos (near Poptun, Peten)
- Yaxha
(Lake Yaxha National Park), Peten, El Sombrero hotel and restaurant
- hotels in Belize
- Captain Morgan's
Retreat, a dive resort, near San Pedro, Ambergris
Caye, Belize
- recommended
restaurant,
Capricorn, near San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize
- Radisson
Fort
George
Hotel, Belize City, Belize, best hotel in Belize City
- hotels in Mexico
- lecture abstracts (lectures
available in English, German, or Spanish from F.L.A.A.R.)
- library
development
- links (an
earlier list of links for www.maya-art-books.org)
- Los
Horcones, Teotihuacanoid stela in Tonola, Chiapas
- Maya archaeology, complete
index of all subjects on www.maya-archaeology.org
- Maya
symposium (weekend conference
and workshop, especially on the PSS and Maya vase style and iconography)
- Maya ceramic art; pedestal
(ring base) bowl from Campeche-Peten border area
- lid
of basal flange bowl, Museo Popol Vuh
- unusual
Highland Guatemalan ceramic effigy
- for many other Maya
vases and artifacts see listings under "Museo Popol Vuh"
- complete
Table of Contents of a new
book on Maya ceramic art (by N. Hellmuth)
- mid-sized
bowl, design (but not shape) possibly
related to pedestal-based style
- Maya vase rollouts; rollouts
by site, site by site;
rollouts index, alphabetical
- Chama,
a vase filled entirely with hieroglyphs; complete
rollout of the text
- Chama,
low Chama bowl with feline
fur pattern and hieroglyph
- several
Maya vase rollouts with the F.L.A.A.R. 70 mm film system made
in Belgium
- Holmul Dancer vase,
rollout
of one panel, Museo Popol Vuh
- history
of the development of rollout cameras (first one was made
in the 19th century, at the British Museum, to photograph Greek
vases!)
- rollouts
illustrating symposium schedule
- Tepeu 1, dancing
wayob (naguals, alter ego animal spirit companions)
- Tepeu 1 vase with
nice PSS, segment showing
executioner with small enema jug in front.
- more schedule, with
rollout photographs of polychrome Maya vases
- rollout
of repeated hieroglyphs of a Middle Motagua vase
- Tepeu 3, Terminal
Classic, important
vase with complex scene
- Mayan hieroglyphs and
epigraphy (introduction to Mayan
glyphs and epigraphy)
- Maya
art (general
discussion)
- Museo Popol Vuh, library (F.L.A.A.R. library on loan to the
museum)
- Museo
Ixchel, Maya textiles, weaving, indigenous clothing, native looms and weaving instruments
- panorama photographs
of Tikal
- photography in art history,
architectural history, and archaeology
- color correction
gels are useful for studio photography, Rosco Gels
- printing (rather essential
for books, but here the focus is more on desktop publishing)
- QTVR object movies; gateway to image menu;
Maya ballplayer
- rollout photographs (see
Maya vase rollouts)
- Seitz Super Roundshot,
70 mm panorama camera
at work at Tikal
- software reviews (software
which is useful for art history, archaeology, etc.)
- Superbase
(Justin Kerr started with this; art historians use it; check it
out)
- Rexam Graphics, wide format
media
- support
Maya archaeological research, it's tax deductible
- symposium, 1998 F.L.A.A.R.
+ BCC Maya archaeology conference and exhibits
- Tiquisate female
incensario and double cylindrical tripod, Museo Popol Vuh with
F.L.A.A.R. Library
- Teotihuacanoid
stela (sharing features with Xochicalco), Los Horcones,
Chiapas
- textiles, weaving, Museo
Ixchel
- Tikal
Temples II and IV, spectular
photograph from a helicopter; Temple I and North Acropolis
- travel to Maya lands,
photograph trips to photograph birds, exotic flowers, Maya ruins
- travel
to Maya lands, hotels
- Belize, list
of hotels that are good in this popular Caribbean-Central
American travel destination
- SCUBA diving paradise,
hotel we prefer in the Bay Islands (Honduras)
- the hotel we
prefer in Guatemala City is the Cortijo Reforma
- hotel in Chichicastenango
we prefer is the Santo Tomas
- recommended
hotel in Tikal
(Posada de la Selva,
Jungle
Lodge)
- recommended hotels
in Santa Elena/Flores area, Peten, Guatemala
- recommended hotel
at Chichen Itza (Piramide
Inn Resort, Piste)
- recommended hotel
in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (Hotel
Hyatt Regency)
- recommended hotels
in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico.
- volunteer possibilities
- Volunteer
opportunities at the Museo Popol Vuh and FLAAR Digital Imaging
Center to students who are seriously interested in archaeology and/or
digital imaging technology.
- wide format color inkjet
printers
- Webmaster
notes, by James Robinson,
who was the original web designer for FLAAR
Equipment, useful for offices,
museums, academic departments, and especially for art historians, architects,
archaeologists and anthropologists.
- 35mm color slides, how to handle
an archive full of slides (with 40,000 slides we have experience)
- ,
desktop publishing, the new generation of color copiers as alternative
to color laser printers
- Xerox DocuColor
40
- spiral binding, wire
binding, plastic binding (desktop binding)
- desktop publishing, choosing
paper is as important as selecting which printer to use
- desktop
publishing (recommended laser printers and the best
laser paper)
- Dicomed
digital scanning cameras for 4x5 large format, Dicomed Field Pro
- Encad, wide
format printer (color ink jet);
Encad media
and inks
- flatbed scanners (see
also www.cameras-scanners-flaar.org and www.flatbed-scanner-review.org)
- Logan slide
storage boxes, how to safely store all your 35mm color slides
- Rexam Graphics media
for wide format printers
- Sinar Bron, the ultimate
4x5 camera for professional photographers
- sponsors, corporate benefactors,
companies who have provided products
- wide format printing
(large format ink jet printers)
- media
(photo paper, banner paper, etc) from Rexam Graphics
Recommended outside links (in preparation)
comprehensive directory of all
Maya vase rollouts on all F.L.A.A.R. sites
Maya archaeology directory (index
of the entire web site www.maya-archaeology.org)
digital imaging,
introduction, software reviews, recommendations of useful equipment for www.flatbed-scanner-review.org
desktop publishing
(how best to print your reports, class notes, publish in your own office)
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