A Glimpse at Guatemala, and Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America

A description of archaeologist Alfred Maudslay's last expedition to Guatemala, with descriptions of his previously excavated sites.

Anne Cary Maudslay (Author), Alfred Percival Maudslay (Author)

9781108017046, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2011

490 pages, 89 b/w illus. 29 colour illus. 15 maps 6 tables
29.7 x 21 x 2.5 cm, 1.16 kg

Alfred Percival Maudslay (1850–1931) was a British colonial administrator and archaeologist who is widely considered the founder of modern Mesoamerican archaeology. After graduating from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1872 Maudslay made his first visit to Guatemala before becoming a colonial administrator working in Trinidad and Fiji. After retiring from colonial service in 1880 he returned to Guatemala and began exploring and excavating major Mayan sites including Chichen Itza, Copán, Palanque and Quiriguá. Maudsley pioneered scientific exploration and recording of these monuments, using techniques which later became standard. First published in 1899, this volume documents Maudslay's last expedition to Guatemala with his wife Anne Cary Maudslay, and contains detailed descriptions and plans of the archaeological sites he had excavated during his previous expeditions. An appendix contains the first excavation reports of Quiriguá and Tikal (1883) and Copán (1886), previously published in the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society.

Preface
List of illustrations
List of maps and plates
1. The voyage
2. The city
3. The start
4. Antigua
5. The volcanoes
6. The road to Godines
7. The lake of Atitlan
8. The Quiché and Cachiquels
9. Across the Altos
10. Uspantan and the Rio Negro
11. Coban and the Vera Paz
12. Ruins at Rabinal
13. The Road to Zacapa and Copan
14. Copan
15. Copan in 1885
16. Copan in 1885 continued
17. Copan to Quirigua
18. On the way to the coast
19. Cajabon and the northern forests
20. The ruins of Ixkun and the Pine Ridge
21. Chichén Itzá
22. Laguna and the Rio Usumacinta
23. Palenque
24. Tikál and Menché
25. Conclusions
26. The hieroglyphic inscriptions
Index
Explorations in Guatemala, and examination of the newly-discovered Indian ruins of Quiriguá, Tikal, and the Usumacinta.

Subject Areas: Archaeology by period / region [HDD]