Piedras Negras, Guatemala expedition records Bulk, 1931-1939 1930-1973
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John Alden Mason was an anthropologist and archaeologist. From the description of Papers, ca. 1915-1967. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523535 From the guide to the Northern Tepehuan language material, 1951, 1956, 1958, (American Philosophical Society) The archaeologist John Alden Mason was Curator of the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania from 1926 until 1955. His research centered on the languages and...
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Piedras Negras is a Maya site in Guatemala particularly noted for the beautifully sculpted stelae and hieroglyphic inscriptions it has yielded. The site, located in the northwestern corner of the Department of Petén, Guatemala, along the Usumacinta River, which forms in this area the border between Guatemala and Mexico, was discovered in 1894 by a Mexican lumber man, and brought to the attention of Teobert Maler, a pioneer archaeologist and explorer of the Ancient Maya. Maler visite...
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Tat’yana Avenirovna Proskuriakova (Татья́на Авени́ровна Проскуряко́ва) was a Russian-American Mayanist scholar and archaeologist who contributed to the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphs. Proskouriakoff was born in Tomsk, Siberia, a daughter of aristocrats. Her family traveled to the United States in late 1915, when her father was sent to supervise the manufacture and sale of weapons to Russia. Proskouriakoff attended Pennsylvania State University and graduated in 1930 with a bachelor of science de...
