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	VOLCANIC ASH IN ANCIENT MAYA CERAMICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Verificiation of the presence of glass shards and associated volcanic mineralogy in thin sections of Maya ceramics was straightforward and pointed to the Guatemala Highland volcanic chain.
		The abundance of the ash in common Maya ceramic vessels coupled with the difficulties of long-distance procurement without draft animals lead Glicken to suggest that ashfall into the lowlands would most parsimoniously explain prehistoric procurement; it literally dropped into their hands.
		The first stage of verification is the petrographic characterization of the volcanic ash in the ancient Maya ceramics of the lowlands.
	www.geo.mtu.edu /volcanoes/quemado/maya.html (501 words)

	Maya ceramics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maya ceramics are important in the study of the Pre-Columbian Maya culture of Mesoamerica.
		Used for a plethora of daily activities, such as the storage of food and beverages, ceramics were also a canvas of commemoration.
		To begin creating a ceramic vessel the Maya had to locate the proper resources for clay and temper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maya_ceramics (924 words)

	THE MAYA
		Maya art often depicts rulers with trappings indicating they were scribes or at least able to write, such as having pen bundles in their headdresses.
		The Maya configured constellations of gods and places, saw the unfolding of narratives in their seasonal movements, and believed that the intersection of all possible worlds was in the night sky.
		Maya rulers figured prominently in many religious rituals and often were required to practice bloodletting, such as using sculpted bone or jade instruments to perforate their penises, or drawing thorn-studded ropes through their tongues.
	www.solarnavigator.net /history/maya.htm (5721 words)

	Mexican and Maya Ceramics
		Maya artists produced renderings of types of animals which were significant to the members of society as food, pets or pests.
		It is difficult to determine if animals depicted on ceramic vessels are parts of purely naturalistic scenes, are related to stories whose texts have not survived from the Classic period or are supernatural creatures.
		Ancient ceramic shaft-tomb figures from the West Mexican states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, and Michoacán are around you.
	mcclungmuseum.utk.edu /newarchives/maya_mex/index.htm (260 words)

	Maya Ceramics: Ceramics and Stone Carvings
		The ancient Maya had a highly structured civilization that thrived in southern Mexico and Central America from the fourth to the eighth centuries AD.
		After that zenith, the Maya mysteriously declined in Guatemala's southern lowlands, but later their culture revived in the Yucatan Peninsula where the Maya continued to dominate until the Spanish conquest.
		Maya Ceramics celebrates their achievements in the sculptor Robert Elliott's ceramics and stone carvings.
	www.mayaceramics.co.uk (228 words)

	Lots of nice photographs of Maya polychrome vases nowhere else published.
		Focus was on the ceramic sequence, regional styles of Maya pottery, Mayan epigraphy (Primary Standard Sequence), and related Mayan art and archeology.
		Maya potters, scribes, and associated artists of ancient Guatemala produced beautiful works of art which can be appreciated for their style, proportions, and craftsmanship.
		The ceramics of this period, known to archaeologists as Tepeu 3 are fascinating records of the final years of the waning Maya culture.
	www.maya-art-books.org /s2html/symp1998_Feb8.9.10.html (653 words)

	Classic Maya Research Guide
		Center for Maya Research: "The Center for Maya Research (CMR) is a not-for-profit educational organization founded by George Stuart in 1984.
		Institute of Maya Studies: "The Institute of Maya Studies, Inc. (IMS) is a non-profit organization founded in 1971 and is affiliated with the Miami Museum of Science.
		Maya Society of Minnesota: "The Maya Society of Minnesota is a non-profit, member supported organization, founded in 1978 by individuals interested in learning more, and promulgating knowledge, about Mesoamerican peoples and cultures which flourished before the Spanish conquest."
	astro.temple.edu /~dcm/maya.htm (1554 words)

	The Construction of the Codex In Classic- and Postclassic-Period Maya Civilization
		The Maya named their paper huun, and saw it as a writing surface when they appropriated their bark-cloth tunics as a possible means of transmitting information: “early in their history the Mayas produced a kind of tapa cloth from the inner bark of certain trees.
		As in European cabalistic thinking during the same time period, the Maya believed that to name a thing was to have power over it; likewise, the ability to keep records that encompassed learning beyond the span of one lifetime allowed the Maya to profit from their past.
		In his 1977 study of the patron gods of Maya scribes, the present writer was able to recognize that these supernaturals sometimes held a writing implement in one hand and in the other an ink or paint container consisting of a conch shell cut in half lengthwise.
	www.mathcs.duq.edu /~tobin/maya (15467 words)

	Worldviews: Maya Ceramics from the Palmer Collection
		Worldviews is an exhibition featuring Maya objects from the Palmer Collection of the Hudson Museum, University of Maine, Orono; and Vessels and Ritual Objects is comprised of Pre-Columbian artifacts from the collection of the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature.
		The civilization continued in the highlands of Guatemala and in the northern Yucatán until the arrival of the Spanish in the early 1500s.
		Maya civilization arose during the Preclassic period (as early as 1500 B.C.E.), but it was during the Classic period that it reached its pinnacle of technological developments, social complexity, and intellectual achievements in writing, mathematics, and astronomy.
	oncampus.richmond.edu /cultural/museums/lrgexhibitions/worldviews.html (345 words)

	WAYEB - Conferences & Events - European Maya Conference - Past Events - 9th EMC
		The conference combined to events: the EMC Maya Hieroglyphic Workshop (7 - 9 December) at the IAE and the EMC Symposium (Friday - Sunday, 10 - 12 December) at the Universitäts-Club.
		During the last years many different localized ceramic traditions have been identified; in their associated visual narratives there are important differences to be found in style of dress and adornment.
		A very good entry into the basic workings of hieroglyphic texts on ceramics and their interaction with the iconography are those ceramics that depict and describe the so-called wayob’ or co-essences.
	www.wayeb.org /emc09.htm (1896 words)

	Maya
		In the 1500s, the Maya were discovered, conquered, and almost totally destroyed by invading Spanish.
		Today's Maya descendants still comprise a large segment of that region's population, living their lives as peasant farmers.
		Uxmal is one of the most well known of the Maya cities, and rated by many archaeologists as the finest.
	www.42explore2.com /maya.htm (2211 words)

	Maya Exploration Center
		Maya Ruins of Chiapas and Tabasco - Jan 2007
		An artist of Tzeltal Maya heritage, Mendez was born in the highlands of Chiapas and raised in San Cristobal de Las Casas.
		His reconstruction drawings of the ruins and faithful reproductions of Maya ceramics have gained him a reputation as one of Palenque's most talented artists.
	www.mayaexploration.org /staff_mendez.php (372 words)

	Maya Archaeological Sites of Belize, Belize History
		One of the things that contributed to the anger of the Maya is that they destroyed one of the temples and on top of the fundamentals of that, the foundation of that temple, they constructed their first church.
		At the lowest levels was found Swasey ceramics, a sophisticated complex, consisting of 25 varieties; the most abundant is known as Consejo red Swasey is the oldest pottery known in the Maya lowlands and one of the oldest ceramic traditions in Central America.
		Yet in a sense, the Maya created their own fertility: the main reservoir at Caracol is an engineering masterpiece providing water to this day and, again in the context of warlords and fertility, it is apropos to bear in mind the name of the supreme Caracol warlord - Lord Water.
	ambergriscaye.com /pages/mayan/mayasites.html (19543 words)

	Maya Civilization Featured at UNH Art Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		From the mysterious Maya underworld to more familiar New England coastlines, The Art Gallery at the University of New Hampshire has a palette of creative works on view this semester.
		All objects are from the William P. Palmer III Collection, housed at the Hudson Museum, at the University of Maine, Orono.
		Thursday, Feb. 18: Slide lecture, "The Role of Caves in Ancient Maya Culture," presented by Jaime Awe, UNH assistant professor of anthropology.
	www.unh.edu /maya.html (962 words)

	International Projects - Central America
		Another project focuses on a collection of ceramics excavated at the Caracol site in western Belize, where for the first time the sensitivity and precision of CAL's program of instrumental neutron activation analysis can be applied to well-dated deposits.
		In collaboration with local experts, staff of the Smithsonian's Conservation Analytical Laboratory have analyzed the composition of ceramics to trace cultural changes in the lower Central American area that lay between the Maya and Andean cultures from approximately 800 B.C. to Spanish contact.
		Ceramics from Ceren, El Salvador, an archaeological site buried by a volcanic eruption around 600 A.D., provided a rare opportunity to study the production and distribution systems in use at that particular moment in time.
	www.si.edu /intrel/internat/central.htm (1867 words)

	Pre-Columbian Maya dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dance was a central component of social, religious, and political endeavors for the ancient Maya.
		Some interesting depictions of Maya dance of the Classic era are found on Maya ceramics and in the famous murals of Bonampak.
		Ancient Maya dance is characterized by transformations of human beings into supernatural beings by means of visionary trance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pre-Columbian_Maya_dance (1255 words)

	Sculpture Details: Maya Ceramics
		The Maya had specific techniques to create, inscribe, paint and design their ceramics.
		The artist has left some of his ceramic sculpture unglazed after firing to enhance the structure of form.
		These ceramic discs are inspired by the original limestone carvings from the ballcourt at Copan, Honduras.
	www.mayaceramics.co.uk /text.htm (602 words)

	Maya World Studies Center in Yucatan - MEXICO - Links to the Maya on the Internet
		Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya, the first exhibition ever devoted to this subject in the United States, will demonstrate the visual magnificence of ancient Maya art with over 130 masterworks drawn from the some 30 public and private lenders in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Chile, the United States, Switzerland, England, and Australia.
		Ceramics produced by ancient Maya scribes and artisans contain a wealth of information about religion and beliefs and show views of the worlds important to the Maya.
		Maya Tulum is a community center designed to provide a natural and supportive environment for individuals and groups searching for relaxation and well-being within the context of personal growth.
	mayacalendar.com /mayalink.html (1107 words)

	GBonline \| Maya Ceramics
		Kerr at the recent Maya Meetings in Austin, and he has plans to develop a Maya ceramics database for the WWW that could have up to 100 Gigabytes of data.
		Maya vase roll-out (K4151) by Justin Kerr at
		Maya page with a nice write-up on John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood (two of the earliest explorers who brought the ancient Maya world to the attention of modern readers).
	pages.prodigy.com /GBonline/mayacera.html (554 words)

	Middle Cay
		A range of artifacts including Maya and British ceramics, faunal material, buoy mould fragments, bottle glass, nails, and metal fragments had been collected by residents of the caye and stored in the fisheries office.
		The artifact concentrations suggest that this was one of the spots on the island that saw repeated occupation and use.
		The Maya ceramics are similar in form, surface treatment, and wear to pottery from the mainland Stann Creek District (Graham 1994).
	www.belizecubadigs.com /middle-cay-97-98.html (1850 words)

	Testing your knowledge of Maya iconography and the Maya ceramic sequence.
		These paintings, and the dozen others painted in the same pre-Columbian ateliers, will necessitate rewriting one chapter of the history of Maya ceramics and ceramic sequence of form and design.
		Yet one Ph.D. dissertation on Maya ceramics effectively indicated that no pot such as this existed in the ceramic sequence.
		The answer is buried within another one of Hellmuth's monographs, on Maya ceramics.
	www.maya-archaeology.org /Maya_ceramics_sequence_style/Maya_ceramic_sequence_quiz.html (533 words)

	WFU Museum of Anthropology to present collection of Maya artifacts
		The ceramics and other artifacts in this exhibit, generally produced by Maya scribes and artisans during the Classic period extending from 250 to 900 A.D., contain a wealth of information about Maya ideology.
		The ability to write and read hieroglyphic texts and interpret the symbolism of pictures as found on the ceramics of the Palmer Collection was all but lost soon afterward.
		A public lecture titled “Mesoamerica through a Maya Gaze: Three Thousand Years of Culture and Resistance” will be presented by Jeanne Simonelli, professor of anthropology and chair of the anthropology department, on Jan. 22 at 7:30 p.m.
	www.wfu.edu /wfunews/2002/100802.html (872 words)

	mayaintro
		Maya --- Brief introduction to the ancient and modern Maya from the Canadian Society for Mesoamerican Studies.
		Maya Writing, a Scientific American article, is a good introduction to the Maya script that explains the key breakthroughs which have made it possible to read most hieroglyphic texts.
		Maya Astronomical Glyphs and Symbols --- Introduction to Maya deities and symbols of earth and sky
	members.shaw.ca /mjfinley/mayaintro.html (1619 words)

	ang5167 Maya Hieroglyphs
		There is widespread availability of numerous drawings of carved Maya stelae and painted or carved artifacts containing hieroglyphic texts (eg.
		Stuart, David 1997 "Kinship Terms in Maya Inscriptions," in M. Macri and A. Ford, Eds., The Language of Maya Hieroglyphs, pp.
		Marcus Joyce1976 Emblem and State in the Classic Maya Lowlands: An Epigraphic Approach to Territorial Organization, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. Martin, Simon and Nikolai Grube 2000 Chronicle of Maya Kings and Queens, Thames and Hudson, London.
	reach.ucf.edu /~ang5167/syllabus.html (806 words)

	WFU \| Museum of Anthropology \| "Worldviews" Exhibit
		"Worldviews: Maya Ceramics from the Palmer Collection" is an exhibit of 35 decorated ceramic vases and 10 carved jade and stone pieces made by artisans of the Maya civilization of Mexico and Central America more than 1000 years ago.
		The Maya civilization is known for its monumental pyramids and palaces, complex religious beliefs, accurate calendar, and hieroglyphic writing system.
		Many of these and other aspects of the beliefs and lives of the ancient Maya appear on the surfaces of painted and carved ceramic vases.
	www.wfu.edu /moa/worldviews.html (244 words)

	Maya Meetings \| Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Begun in 1978 as a two evening workshop on Maya heiroglyphic writing by the late Linda Schele, the Maya Meetings at Texas have evolved into a large international gathering devoted the art, writing and language of the Maya and other Mesoamerican peoples.
		Each Maya Meetings has its own "sourcebook," a heavily illustrated commentary and compilation of Maya inscriptions written by the presenters.
		These transcripts are of extreme interest to both layperson and scholar, for they document the year-by-year advancements in the field of Maya epigraphy and decipherment.
	www.utmaya.org /archives (230 words)

	WAYEB - Conferences & Events - European Maya Conference - Past Events - 10th EMC
		It will cover some recent findings or developments in Maya Studies to give those who are beginners some general idea of the field and to update those participants with experience in Maya glyphs on the latest "State of the Art" in the decipherment and semantic analysis of Maya hieroglyphic writing.
		This year the workshop on Classic Maya ceramics will be focussed on the regional variation of primary and secondary hieroglyphic texts.
		Advanced participants with well founded knowledge of Maya writing are offered special Advanced Workshop to give them the opportunity to expand their proficiency of Classic Maya Writing and to provide them with insight into very special aspects of Classic Maya culture - though with specific focus on epigraphy, language and iconography.
	www.wayeb.org /emc10.htm (1436 words)

	bredstr
		The Maya Vase Data Base Archive of Rollout Photographs by Justin Kerr (n.d.), contains a wide range of Classic Maya ceramics with different kinds of painted, incised, carved, and stamped rim texts.
		To claim that there is a standardized dedicatory formula for all or even for the small number of the vases that have been "read," seems to be out of place with the few translations that have actually been deciphered for them.
		After checking through many of the Maya dialects, it has been decided that there was a "proto-chol" language in ancient times.
	www.mayalords.org /mayafldr/bredstr.html (1117 words)

	Worldviews: Maya Ceramics from the Palmer Collection
		Worldviews is an exhibition featuring Maya objects from the Palmer Collection of the Hudson Museum, University of Maine, Orono; and Vessels and Ritual Objects is comprised of Pre-Columbian artifacts from the collection of the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature.
		These ceramics and carved jades, largely produced by Maya scribes and artisans during the Classic period (A.D. 250-900), contain a wealth of information about Maya ideology.
		Maya civilization arose during the Preclassic period (as early as 1500 B.C.E.), but it was during the Classic period that it reached its pinnacle of technological developments, social complexity, and intellectual achievements in writing, mathematics, and astronomy.
	museums.richmond.edu /lrgexhibitions/worldviews.html (345 words)

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