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1 online resource |
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Tikal report ; no. 37 |
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Museum monographs ; 135 |
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Tikal reports ; no. 37.
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University Museum monograph ; 135
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Tikal Report No. 37: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AT TIKAL, GUATEMALA; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Appendices; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 SETTLEMENT PATTERN AND SCATTERED FINDS; 3 MATERIAL CULTURE; Appendices E-K; References; Summary in Spanish; Figures; Tables; Index; Appendices; A Database Structure: a text document that presents the variables used for the artifact and provenience databases; B Codes for Database Variables: a text document |
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C Proveniences for Excavation Lots: a database file given in simple text format that can be loaded into a relational database file or converted to Word or ExcelD Artifact Database: a database file given in simple text format that can be loaded into a relational database file or converted to Word or Excel; E Published Records of Visits to Tikal, 1696-1956; F Letter from Edwin M. Shook to Hattula Moholy-Nagy; G Letter from Dennis E. Puleston to Hattula Moholy-Nagy; H Notes on San José Material Culture of the Early 1960s; I Professor Walter M. Wolfe's Trip to Tikal in 1901 |
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J Research on the Bottles of Tikal by Paul S. NewtonK A Translation into English of Valenzuela's Report of 1879 by Marshall Becker; L Gallery of Photographs: scans of color and black and white images that can be viewed with Preview or Photoshop; M The Printed Illustrations of TR 37: scans that can be viewed with Preview or Photoshop; Figures; 1 The Department of Petén, Guatemala; 2 Part of the central area of Tikal with the locations of Recent Sites and other post-Conquest finds mentioned in the text; 3 La Palmera, the southern portion of the 19th-century settlement at Tikal |
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4 The Tikal Aguada in 19565 Great Temples IV (Str. 5C-4) and III (Str. 5D-3) photographed by A.P. Maudslay; 6 Great Temples III (Str. 5D-3), II (Str. 5D-2), and IV (Str. 5C-4) photographed from Great Temple I (Str. 5D-1) by A.P. Maudslay; 7 Great Temple III (Str. 5D-3) photographed by A.P. Maudslay; 8 The campsite in the rain forest of the workers who accompanied the Maudslays to Tikal; 9 Sketch map of the center of Tikal by A.P. Maudslay; 10 RS 5D-2, looking east; 11 RS 5D-2, looking east. The same view as Figure 10; 12 RS 5D-2, looking west; 13 RS 5D-1 |
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14 Pottery vessel forms from San José Petén15 Plan of RS 5F-1; 16 RS 5F-1, sections; 17 Plan of RS 5F-2; 18 Manos and metates; 19 Plans and sections of a slab metate; 20 Metate from RS 5F-1; 21 Metates and other ground stone artifacts; 22 Glass bottles, an iron cooking pot, and a hand mill; 23 Metal artifacts; 24 Metal box strap and machete fragments; 25 Metal and pottery artifacts; 26 Pottery figurine and vessels; 27 Pottery jars and bowls; 28 Pottery bowls; 29 Pottery bowls from Yucatán; ILLUSTRATIONS IN APPENDIX L (CD); L01 Edwin M. Shook (1911-2000) |
| 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 1870s. 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 |
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Archaeology |
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Caribbean Studies |
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Latin American Studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Guatemala -- Tikal Site -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Tikal Site (Guatemala) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85135336
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| Subject |
Guatemala -- Tikal Site
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012011837 |
| ISBN |
9781934536582 |
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193453658X |
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