GUATEMALA ARCHITECTURE
ARNAULD, Marie C., Archeologie de l'Habitat en Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) (Etudes Mesoamericaines, Volume X)
FAUVET-BERTHELOT, Marie-France, Ethnoprehistoire de la Maison Maya, history and archaeology of native highland Guatemala Maya houses, 296 p., well illustrated.
G & T FOUNDATION, PIEZAS MAESTRAS MAYAS,
Patrimondo del Museo Nacional de Arquelogia y Etnologia de Guatemala, GALARIA
GUATEMALA III, 15.5" x 11.5" hardcover coffee table book,
Spanish & English parallel text, 28 articles covering ecology, geography
& development of technology of ancient Maya, as well as Preclassic,
Classic, Postclassic & Spanish contact periods with the effects of interaction
by different cultures. Discusses infrastructures, commerce, war, religion,
art, architecture & cultures of Maya. 2 page chart of chronology of
major sites. Beautiful photography to illustrate artifacts & culture
of the Maya,10 B&W & 150 color photographs plus 35 full page color
plates, 249 p.
ICHON, Alain and Rita GIGNON, ARCHEOLOGIE DE SAUVETAGE DANS LA VALLEE
DU RIO CHIXOY. no. 3, EL JOCOTE. Archaeologists tend to forget the highlands
in their Tikal-centric view of the Maya universe. These reports are essential
to understanding the fuller perspective of ancient Maya culture throughout
Guatemala.- photographs of incensarios, pottery, figurines, monumental architecture.
125p.
SHARER, Robert J., Quirigua: A Classic Maya Center & Its Sculptures
WALTERS, Gary Rex, The San Agustin Acasaguastlan Archaeological Project: Report on the 1979 field season (Museum brief)
Kaminaljuyu
OHI, Kuniaki et al., KAMINALJUYU - Excavation Research, 1994,
Set of 2 volumes, boxed w/history & culture, (texts in Spanish and Japanese)
hundreds of B&W photos of artifacts and site excavations as well as
illustrations. Foldouts of maps, chronologies of architecture, designs of
crafts and cultures. 762 p.
Nakum
TOZZER, Alfred, A Preliminary Study of the Prehistoric Ruins of Nakum Guatemala A Report of the Peabody Museum Expedition 1909-10
Tikal
HARRISON, Peter, A JADE PENDANT FROM TIKAL (shows insides of royal
tomb) and TIKAL: NORTH ACROPOLIS AND AN EARLY TOMB by Wm.
Coe; photographs, drawings, and text provide readable description of how
to find and professionally excavate a wealthy Preclassic burial. Expedition,
Vol. 5, No. 2, 1963,
HELLMUTH, Nicholas, Structure 5D-73, BURIAL
196, TIKAL, PETEN, GUATEMALA, 2 volumes, spiral bound, so many hundreds
of illustrations we gave up counting maps, lots of architectural drawings
of the pyramid and tomb chamber, rollout drawings of all the decorated vases,
complete drawings of all the plates, pictures of all the jade in situ inside
the crypt. This opus was Hellmuth's B.A.
honor's thesis (awarded a Summa cum Laude at Harvard). Burial 196
("The Tomb of the Jade Jaguar") is the third largest Late Classic
burial ever found in the entire Maya lowlands. The author spent several
months inside the tomb and in the lab taking copious notes, doing exquisite
drawings, and taking abundant photographs, making this the most thoroughly
recorded burial ever excavated in Mesoamerica.
LAPORTE, Juan Pedro & VALDES, Juan Antonio, Tikal Y Uaxactun En El Preclasico
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