Maya Archaeologist - Softcover

J. Eric S. Thompson (author) & Norman Hammond (Foreword By)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806112069 ISBN 13: 9780806112060

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author

J. Eric S. Thompson, one of the world's foremost Maya scholars, is a veteran of archaeological field expeditions to southern Mexico and Central America. Associated with the Carnegie Institution of Washington for many years, he now lives near Cambridge, England, where he continues his investigations of Maya hieroglyphic writing. He is the author of A Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs and Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: An Introduction, both invaluable tools for Mayanists. His other books include The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization, the classic account of the prehistoric Mayas, and Maya Archaeologist, the delightful story of his archaeological adventures. All are published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Norman Hammond teaches archaeology at Boston University, and is the author of numerous books on the Maya and Mesoamerican archaeology.

From the Back Cover

Maya Archaeologist is an autobiographical account of explorations in Mayan ruins by J. Eric S. Thompson, one of the world's 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, Chichen Itza, Copan, Tikal, and Quirigua, as well as lively portraits of the archaeologists who probed this civilization - Morley, Gann, Ruppert, Vaillant, Roys, and many others.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806112069
• ISBN 13: 9780806112060
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318