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Tatiana Proskouriakoff: Interpreting the Ancient Maya » (New Edition)
Authors: Char Solomon, Char Soloman
ISBN-13: 9780806134451, ISBN-10: 0806134453
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: New Edition
Author Biography: Char Solomon
Book Synopsis
The biography of Tatiana Proskouriakoff—the woman who changed forever the world's perception of the Maya. It is the first full-length biography of Tatiana Proskouriakoff to be written.
Archaeology, Jan-Feb. 2003 - Traci Arden
No scholar is more beloved by Mayanists than Tatiana Proskouriakoff, the Russian-born archaeologist and artist whose reconstruction drawings of sites duch as Piedras Negras and Copan are world famous...A new biography of this amazing scholar, Tatiana Proskouriakoff: Interpreting the Ancient Maya...is sure to fascinate readers...Filled with a large supporting cast of colorful characters and absorbing details of early archaeological expeditions to the Maya world, [it] wins over the reader with a compelling portrait of one of archaeology's most important early personalities.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Ch. 1 | The Russian Years | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | A New Beginning (1916-1925) | 11 |
| Ch. 3 | Architecture at Penn State and Beyond (1926-1935) | 20 |
| Ch. 4 | Into the Jungle: The University of Pennsylvania Expeditions (1936-1938) | 28 |
| Ch. 5 | Copan and the Carnegie Institution of Washington (1939) | 41 |
| Ch. 6 | The War Years (1940-1944) | 60 |
| Ch. 7 | Reconnaissance Trips through Central America (1944-1947) | 80 |
| Ch. 8 | Mayapan and the Demise of the Carnegie Division of Historical Research (1947-1958) | 99 |
| Ch. 9 | Resolution and Changing Priorities (1954-1958) | 126 |
| Ch. 10 | Research, Hieroglyphs, and Further Adventure (1958-1965) | 137 |
| Ch. 11 | Seminars, Jades, and Accolades (1965-1985) | 149 |
| Ch. 12 | The Ceremony of the Ashes (1998) | 168 |
| Notes | 173 | |
| Selected Writings of Tatiana Proskouriakoff | 197 | |
| Bibliography | 201 | |
| Index | 209 |
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