Handy directory of all the links for Maya art and archaeology on an additional Maya web site, www.maya-archaeology.org. Covers deities, iconography, rollouts of Maya vases, and reviews of all kinds of digital imaging equipment for desktop publishing
A B C D E F G L M P Q R S T V W
Antigua, Guatemala, new museum of Spanish colonial art and also of Maya art
Belize, a wonderful country to visit; friendly people, great Maya ruins; recommended hotels
Ballgame of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, lecture abstract
• Ballgame lectures at annual F.L.A.A.R. Maya symposium
• Animated 3-D QTVR object movie (GIF) of Maya ballplayer figurine
Book list, Art & Archaeology Book Service (office in transit, will reopen by next year)
Camera equipment recommended for use in museums or on expedition
• Medium format (Hasselblad or Rolleiflex) is better than 35mm film size
Chama style polychrome Maya vases (see "Maya vase rollouts" as well as "Mayan hieroglyphs")
Chichicastenango
• Casa Lefebvre
• Hotel Casa del Rey, a pleasant hotel just outside Chichicastenango
• Hotel Santo Tomas, another of the better hotels in Chichicastenango
Collapse of Mayan civilization and abandonment of the great city-states
Contact
• Contact F.L.A.A.R. Photo Archive
• Contact F.L.A.A.R. Digital Imaging Technology Center
Copan, report on sculpture prepared for IHAH; recommended hotels, restaurant, in Copan
• Menu for images of Copan sculpture
• Jaguar God of the Underworld (on jaguar stairway)
Credits and copyright notice
Dedolights, essential lights for photographing artifacts
Digital imaging gateway
Epigraphy (see "Mayan hieroglyphs, PSS")
F.L.A.A.R. (grants received and program with Japan's National Museum of Ethnology)
• Photo Archive
• F.L.A.A.R. director, Dr Nicholas M. Hellmuth
Glossary of Maya iconography
Hotels in Antigua Guatemala
• Hotel Casa Santo Domingo
Hotels in Belize
• Hotel Radisson Fort George
Hotels in Chichen Itza, Mexico
Hotels in Chichicastenango, Guatemala
• Hotel Casa del Rey
• Hotel Santo Tomás
Hotels in Guatemala City
Hotels in Merida, Mexico
Hotels in Panajachel, Guatemala
• Hotel Posada de Don Rodrigo
Hotels in Peten, Guatemala
• Hotel El Sombrero
• Hotel Guayacan
• Hotel Maya Internacional
• Hotel Posada Caribe
• Hotel Posada de la Selva
• Hotel Villa de los Castellanos
Hotels in Villahermosa, Mexico
Lecture abstracts (lectures available in English, German, or Spanish from F.L.A.A.R.)
• Ballgame of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
• How Digital Imaging can Improve Scholarly Research and Reports
• Tomb of the Jade Jaguar, discovery and excavation of the treasures of Tikal
Library development
Los Horcones, Teotihuacanoid stela in Tonola, Chiapas
Maya symposium (weekend conference and workshop, especially on the PSS and Maya vase style and Iconography)
• Past speakers (distinguished archaeologists)
Maya ceramic art; pedestal (ring base) bowl from Campeche-Peten border area
• Lid of basal flange bowl, Museo Popol Vuh
• Unusual Highland Guatemalan ceramic effigy
• Complete Table of Contents of a new book on Maya ceramic art (by N. Hellmuth)
• Mid-sized bowl, design (but not shape) possibly related to pedestal-based style
Maya vase rollouts; rollouts by site, site by site; rollouts index, alphabetical
• Chama, a vase filled entirely with hieroglyphs; complete rollout of the text
• Chama, low Chama bowl with feline fur pattern and hieroglyph
• Several Maya vase rollouts with the F.L.A.A.R. 70 mm film system made in Belgium
• Holmul Dancer vase, rollout of one panel, Museo Popol Vuh
• History of the development of rollout cameras
• Rollouts illustrating symposium schedule
• Tepeu 1, dancing wayob (naguals, alter ego animal spirit companions)
• Tepeu 1 vase with nice PSS, segment showing executioner with small enema jug in front.
• More schedule, with rollout photographs of polychrome Maya vases
• Rollout of repeated hieroglyphs of a Middle Motagua vase
• Tepeu 3, Terminal Classic, important vase with complex scene
Mayan hieroglyphs and epigraphy (introduction to Mayan glyphs and epigraphy)
• PSS, (including two vases never before published, including miniature "sombrero lidded bowl")
• Hieroglyph on a low Chama bowl
• Another bowl with flawlessly preserved PSS, not previously published
• Flawlessly preserved PSS, original, no repainting, reversed (backwards PSS)
• Important hieroglyphic text on a polychrome plate, from newest book by N. Hellmuth
Maya art (general discussion)
Museo Popol Vuh, library (F.L.A.A.R. library on loan to the museum)
• Bat and animal effigy, illustrating symposium schedule, public lectures
• Late Protoclassic tetrapod with lid
• Preclassic figurine with punctate eyes
Museo Ixchel, Maya textiles, weaving, indigenous clothing, native looms and weaving instruments
Panorama photographs of Tikal
Photography in art history, architectural history, and archaeology
• Color correction gels are useful for studio photography, Rosco Gels
Printing (rather essential for books, but here the focus is more on desktop publishing)
• Fabulous paper for using with laser printers, Futura Laser
• Desktop binding, especially useful in museums and for any archaeology project
QTVR object movies; gateway to image menu; Maya ballplayer
Rollout photographs (see Maya vase rollouts)
Rexam Graphics, wide format media
Seitz Super Roundshot, 70 mm panorama camera at work at Tikal
Software reviews (software which is useful for art history, archaeology, etc.)
• Superbase (Justin Kerr started with this; art historians use it; check it out)
Support Maya archaeological research, it's tax deductible
Symposium, 1998 F.L.A.A.R. + BCC Maya archaeology conference and exhibits
• Pictures of participants enjoying the '98 Maya symposium in Florida
• Speakers (distinguished archaeologists)
• Schedule, with lots of nice rollout photographs of polychrome Maya vases
Teotihuacanoid stela (sharing features with Xochicalco), Los Horcones, Chiapas
Textiles, weaving, Museo Ixchel
Tikal Temples II and IV, spectular photograph from a helicopter
Tikal Temple I photo in GIF format (instead of JPEG format)
Travel to Maya lands, photograph trips to photograph birds, exotic flowers, Maya ruins
Travel to Maya lands, hotels
volunteer possibilities
Volunteer opportunities at FLAAR Digital Imaging Center to students who are seriously Interested in archaeology and/or digital imaging technology.
Wide format color inkjet printers
• Large format color printers to reproduce Maya textiles
Wide format printing (large format ink jet printers)
• Media (photo paper, banner paper, etc) from Rexam Graphics
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