Historical archaeology at Tikal, Guatemala / Hattula Moholy-Nagy ; series editors, William A. Haviland, Christopher Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moholy-Nagy, Hattula.

Contributor:

Haviland, William A.

Jones, Christopher, 1937-2015.

Series:

Tikal reports ; no. 37.

Museum monographs (University of Pennsylvania. University Museum) ; 135.

Museum monograph ; 135

Tikal report ; no. 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Guatemala--Tikal Site--History.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Tikal Site (Guatemala).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (117 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The pre-Columbian city we call Tikal was abandoned by its Maya residents during the tenth century A.D. and succumbed to the Guatemalan rain forest. It was not until 1848 that it was brought to the attention of the outside world. For the next century Tikal, remote and isolated, received a surprisingly large number of visitors. Public officials, explorers, academics, military personnel, settlers, petroleum engineers, chicle gatherers, and archaeologists came and went, sometimes leaving behind material traces of their visits. A short-lived hamlet was established among the ancient ruins in the late 1870's. In 1956 the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology initiated its fourteen-year-long Tikal Project. This report chronicles documented visits to Tikal during the century following its modern discovery, and presents the post-Conquest material culture recovered by the Tikal Project in the course of its investigation of the pre-Columbian city. Further research on the nineteenth-century settlement was carried out in 1998 in its southern part by the Lacandon Archaeological Project (LAP) under the direction of Joel W. Palka of the University of Illinois at Chicago. The material culture recovered by the LAP supplements the Tikal Project collection and is referenced here. Historical Archaeology at Tikal, Guatemala is intended as a contribution to nineteenth and early twentieth century Lowland Mesoamerican research. It is rounded out with several appendices that will be of interest to historians and historical archaeologists. The printed volume includes many black and white photographs and drawings. A gallery of color photographs, several from Palka's 1998 excavations, is included on the accompanying CD-ROM. Content of the book's CD-ROM may be found online at this location: http://core.tdar.org/document/376606.University Museum Monograph, 135

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Appendices

Figures

Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. Settlement Pattern and Scattered Finds

3. Material Culture

Appendix E. Published Records of Visits to Tikal, 1696-1956

Appendix F. Letter from Edwin M. Shook to Hattula Moholy-Nagy

Appendix G. Letter from Dennis E. Puleston to Hattula Moholy-Nagy

Appendix H. Notes on San José Material Culture of the Late 1950's-Early 1960's

Appendix I. Professor Walter M. Wolfe's Trip to Tikal, 1901

Appendix J. Research on the Bottles of Tikal by Paul S. Newton

Appendix K Salvador Valenzuela's Report on the Department of Petén, 1879 (Valenzuela 1951)

References

Summary in Spanish

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-60) and index.

ISBN:

9781283891578

1283891573

9781934536582

193453658X

OCLC:

822017785