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	Piedras Negras, Guatemala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Piedras Negras is the modern name for a ruined city of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization located on the north bank of the Usumacinta River in the Petén department of Guatemala.
		The artistry of the sculpture of the late classic period of Piedras Negras is considered particularly fine.
		An archeological project at Piedras Negras was conducted by the University of Pennsylvania from 1931 to 1939 under the direction of J. Alden Mason and Linton Satterthwaite.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piedras_Negras,_Guatemala (435 words)

	Piedras Negras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Piedras Negras is the name for more than one place.
		Piedras Negras, Coahuila, a city in northern Mexico.
		Piedras Negras, Guatemala, a ruined Pre-Columbian Maya city in Petén department.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piedras_Negras (98 words)

	Piedras Negras - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Piedras Negras is a commercial and processsing center for the surrounding agricultural region.
		In 1888, Piedras Negras was renamed Ciudad Porfirio Díaz in honor of the dictator, but the old name was restored after his overthrow.
		PIEDRAS NEGRAS, MEXICO -- A baseball stadium sits under water in Piedras Negras, Mexico, on Monday, April 5, 2004 following a flood of the Escondido River.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/PiedrsNMex.asp (258 words)

	UPM Archives - Expedition Records - Piedras Negras - Expedition Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Piedras Negras is a Maya site in Guatemala particularly noted for the beautifully sculpted stelae and hieroglyphic inscriptions it has yielded.
		Tatiana Proskouriakoff, an eminent figure in Maya archaeology, especially the study of Maya art, architecture, and epigraphy, began her archaeological career on the Piedras Negras expedition during the seasons of 1936 and 1937.
		Most of the monuments borrowed from Guatemala were returned to the country of origin in January, 1947, after an extension to the original loan.
	www.museum.upenn.edu /new/edu/archives/DC-ER-Piedras_Negras_ES.shtml (961 words)

	Illustration of Piedras Negras in Guatemala
		Piedras Negras is, by and large, inaccessible and covered by jungle foliage.
		Along the banks of the river is a large boulder with the emblem glyph of Piedras Negras carved on it and facing skyward.
		NOTE: At the time of this writing, Piedras Negras is threatened with the greatest catastrophe that could befall it: a proposal to build a hydro electric dam some 30 miles downstream on the Usumacinta River at Boca de Cerro.
	mayavision.com /piedrasnegras.html (617 words)

	piedras negras 2004
		He was amazingly open and not only answered all our questions, but he gave us details of all the most recent digs at Piedras Negras as well as revealing the ideas and hypotheses held by various archaeologists who have an inordinate interest in Piedras Negras.
		We made a careful look at one of the most enigmatic pyramids at Piedras Negras, a structure seldom visited by those few who make the trek to the site—it is simply too difficult to get to and has had little attention—until very recently.
		At Piedras Negras, the cameras were drenched in sweat and constant high humidity.
	edgarcayce.org /am/piedrasnegras200.html (1598 words)

	Guatemala travel guide - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Guatemala is a country in the Central America region of North America.
		Guatemala's secondary airport is situated in Flores, Petén.
		Guatemala City: Try the local trolley, Chiltepe Tours (www.chiltepe.com), departing at 10:00 and 13:00 hours from hotels in zone 10, visiting the historic downtown of Guatemala City, with one stop at the National Palace, and one at Museo Popol Vuh.
	wikitravel.org /en/Guatemala (2254 words)

	proskouriakoff 1960 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Inscriptions at Piedras Negras are shown to form a pat tern of discrete sets of records, each inscribed on a group of consecutive monuments beginning with a stela depict in the 'ascension motif'.
		That the ascension motif at Piedras Negras marked the beginning of a series of monuments dealing with a sequence of related dates, and that the motif symbolized an event that recurred at irregular intervals and was of some civic and religious importance.
		In the inscription on the shells from Burial 5 at Piedras Negras (Fig.
	www.mayaglyphs.net /pros.html (10659 words)

	GHF 2003 Nominations
		Piedras Negras is remarkable for its magnificent temple-pyramids, baths and ball courts, but most especially for its many fine limestone sculptures, reliefs and stelae.
		In antiquity Piedras Negras was known as Yokib, which means "entrance", possibly because of a 100-metre-wide cenote (a natural underground reservoir used as a sacrificial well) located near the site.
		The extensive ruins of Piedras Negras have been classified into three architectural units: the west group (site of the main Acropolis), the east group and the south group.
	www.globalheritagefund.org /where/nominations_2003_piedras.html (383 words)

	Piedras negras bandits
		Piedras Negras is believed to be the location of the Yucatan Hall of Records, which was described by America's famous psychic Edgar Cayce.
		The Littles observed numerous boats moving north, down the river to the Gulf of Mexico during their stay at Piedras Negras, including boats attempting to maneuver the many rapids and whirlpools found everywhere on the river, in the total darkness of night--without lights.
		This may be the only public footage from Piedras Negras that will depict the site as unlooted since archaeologist Stephen Houston states that the drug traffickers are digging into the site's pyramids and structures that were erected on a mountain known as "The Acropolis." The Acropolis is literally covered with buildings, temples, and pyramids.
	www.mysterious-america.net /piedrasnegrasban.html (506 words)

	Piedras Negras - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		PIEDRAS NEGRAS [Piedras Negras] [Span.,=fl stones], ruined city of the Classic era of the Maya, NW Petén, Guatemala, in the Usumacinta valley.
		Reaching a peak of sculptural achievement (according to one dating system, between 731 and 795), Piedras Negras developed some of the finest pre-Columbian stonework.
		AeroLitoral Begins Service to Piedras Negras From DFW Airport; Route Expands DFW's Position as International Gateway.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/PiedrsN1G1uat.asp (278 words)

	Piedras Negras- Weeks, Hill, Golden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Situated on the banks of the Usumacinta River in northwestern Guatemala, Piedras Negras is an important Maya site known for its carved monuments and panels.
		More importantly, the Piedras Negras project developed the logistical and methodological criteria that are now standard in the field.
		Piedras Negras Archaeology, 1931-1939 reintroduces to the scholarly community and public these pioneering works, meticulously scanned and edited from the fragile originals, with all the maps, tables, line art, and photographs from the initial reports, and an interpretive essay and index for modern readers.
	www.museum.upenn.edu /new/publications/PiedrasNegras.shtml (300 words)

	August Resources @ National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Piedras Negras "limped along for a few decades," says Houston, "but once the king was gone, the city had no purpose." Palaces were subdivided, ritual sweat baths filled with trash.
		The fate of Piedras Negras strongly suggests that Classic Maya culture collapsed not from drought or overpopulation, Houston says, but from the loss of the royal court and the erosion of public faith in the hierarchy.
		Discover Piedras Negras through the words of Stephen Houston after his 1999 field season, sponsored by an organization that funds similar research throughout Mesoamerica, one of the world's cradles of civilization.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0308/resources_cre.html (501 words)

	Piedras Negras report
		An educational display in the Guatemala museum shows the first people entering the Americas from the South Pacific—just as Cayce stated.
		While cutting a path around the steep side of the Acropolis, in an area of dense jungle growth, we could occasionally see the outer layer of fitted stone blocks that formed the impressive, steep walls of the mountain when it was adapted as a building platform.
		Piedras Negras remains much like it was when it was first "discovered" in the 1800s.
	www.mysterious-america.net /piedrasnegrasrep.html (1016 words)

	Explore Guatemala
		Guatemala, known as “the land of eternal spring” because of its year-round temperate climate, is a nation rich in history.
		Most archaeologists agree that the ancient Guatemala was the cultural center of the New World and that the famed Maya civilization originated there.
		Guatemala is a natural paradise, with its majestically towering mountains and volcanoes, its cloud covered forests tropical jungles and highland lakes.
	www.exploreguatemala.com /classictours.htm (1225 words)

	Copper Canyon Adventures/Guatemala: For personal service, local knowledge and trips designed to YOUR schedule to Maya ...
		Piedras Negras (Black Rocks), Guatemala is one of the most remote of all ancient Maya cities and consequently one of the least-visited and best-preserved.
		Interestingly, one of the pioneers of contemporary research on the Maya, Tatiana Prouskourikoff, is buried in the main Acropolis of "J Group" in Piedras Negras, with a plaque marking the spot and honoring this insightful and forward-thinking scientist.
		The rediscovery of the largest known cenote of Mesoamerica at Piedras Negras, although now dry, leads credence to why Yokib, a large opening, was chosen for the emblem glyph of this large city-state.
	www.coppercanyonadventures.com /Piedras_Negras.html (2204 words)

	BYU Broadcasting \| Piedras Negras - Piecing Together The Past
		Piedras Negras is the largest Classic Maya city in the western Maya Lowlands, located on the Guatemalan bank of the Usumacinta River.
		Its existence, and the rich record of its sculptures and buildings, led to intensive fieldwork by the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, in the 1930s and, more recently, to years of investigations by the Piedras Negras Project of Brigham Young University and the Universidad del Valle.
		See where Piedras Negras is on a map of the country of Guatemala.
	www.byubroadcasting.org /pttp/intro.asp (276 words)

	2000 Conference
		Interestingly, we found that the hieroglyphic emblem for Piedras Negras used throughout the area contained a symbol that denotes burial and yet an unusually small number of human burials have been found at the site.
		In addition, one of the ruling families at Piedras Negras was named Turtleshell who claimed to be descendants of the gods.
		The early excavations at Piedras Negras are also detailed in the book with numerous pictures and illustrations (some dating to 1895 expeditions at the site).
	www.edgarcayce.org /am/2000conference.html (4146 words)

	February 2001 Talk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		His research is focused on understanding the nature of the cultural shift at Piedras Negras that took place between the Early Classic and Late Classic periods, roughly between AD 500 - 600.
		Recent research conducted by the Piedras Negras Archaeological Project, a bi-national undertaking directed by Drs.
		In particular, excavations in the Acropolis, the royal palace of Piedras Negras, have opened up important new insights into the nature of royal governance among the ancient Maya and the socio-political development of Piedras Negras over the course of four centuries (AD 450 - 850).
	www.netaxs.com /upmus/talk0201.htm (240 words)

	Reports Submitted to FAMSI - Arturo René Muñoz - Ceramics at Piedras Negras, Guatemala
		Introduction to the Ceramics of Piedras Negras, Guatemala.
		In El Proyecto Piedras Negras 2000: Informe Preliminar de la Cuarta Temporada, edited by H. Escobedo, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.
		El Proyecto Piedras Negras 1999: Informe Preliminar de la Segunda Temporada, edited by H. Escobedo, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.
	www.famsi.org /reports/00079/section09.htm (659 words)

	Mayan World: Archaeological Sites of Guatemala
		Piedras Negras is in the most remote part of Guatemala on a point of land bordered on the south and west by Chipas and on the north by Campeche.
		The ruins at Piedras Negras are as large as the ones at Tikal and is thought to have been a major power in its heyday and possibly allied with Yaxchilán.
		Tikal is also the refuge for most of the animals in Guatemala, and it is a place where they can be easily seen.
	www.mayan-world.com /ruinas/guatem2-m.htm (1696 words)

	Museum News Releases
		Featuring new text, photographs, and more than 200 artifacts, the renovated gallery is designed to provide visitors with a structured, thematic approach, offering a general overview of cultures of the region and of the principal Mesoamerican civilizations that grew up, flourished, and influenced one another in the region and beyond.
		The inscriptions on one of these monuments, Piedras Negras’ stela 14, gave epigrapher Tatiana Proskouriakoff her first clues to the historical, rather than mythical, nature of Maya writing.
		UPM is particularly rich in Classic Maya objects from the highlands of Guatemala, and renowned Chama polychome pottery with painted scenes is on display.
	www.upennmuseum.com /pressreleases/forum.pl?msg=55 (1072 words)

	A Trip to the Piedras Negras Ruins
		It was he who told me about Willy Fonseca, the owner of Vallescondido, the restaurant that serves all the tour buses on their way to Yaxchilán and Bonampák.
		It was tempting to use the pond for swimming, but I was in no mood for that since I was a bit excited about being in Piedras Negras the very next day.
		During the actual tour of Piedras Negras, Willy brought along a sheaf of copies of drawings by the late Tatiana Proskouriakoff, a noted artist and archaeologist.
	www.mostlymaya.com /Trips/PNtrip.html (4489 words)

	Mesoweb Reports
		National Geographic, Vanderbilt University and the Guatemalan Ministry of Culture announced today that the archaeological project at Cancuen, Guatemala (map), had uncovered a mass burial containing thirty-one slain and dismembered individuals of noble rank, as well as the nearby graves of the king and queen of Cancuen.
		The discovery of the mass interment, dated to about AD 800, was made in May of this year by archaeologists Sylvia Alvarado and Tomas Barrientos, co-director of the Cancuen project, in a spring-fed cistern or reservoir near the main entrance to the Cancuen palace.
		On November 3 of this year, in connection with an exhibition in Finland of Maya pieces from Guatemala, Prensa Libre mentioned that the remains of a king and queen of Cancuen had been found.
	www.mesoweb.com /reports/cancuen_news.html (842 words)

	Tatiana Proskouriakoff
		In 1936, she was asked to join an expedition to Piedras Negras, where it was her task to sketch archaeological reconstructions of sites at Chiche’n-Itza, Tikal, and Yaxchilan.
		She was also able to prove that these texts showed rites of passage and major accomplishments of the rulers.
		Her studies of the stelae of Piedras Negras influenced the way archaeologists today incorporate glyphic data to reach interpretive results.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/proskouriakoff_tatiana.html (562 words)

	Guatemala Unlimited - White Water Rafting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the spring of 2002 we are fortunate to be working with an international team of archaeologists headed by Dr. Stephen Houston of Brigham Young University in the excavation of the important Mayan site of Piedras Negras.
		In conjunction with Maya Expeditions we will be providing the logistical support for the team as well as bringing clients to this remote site in the northwest corner of the country.
		Located on the Usumacinta River and accessible only by river raft, Piedras Negras has remained virtually untouched since it was first excavated in1939.
	members.aol.com /guatemala1/html/raft.htm (328 words)

	Soil Science Society of America Journal -- About the Cover (November 2005, 69, (6))
		of Plant and Animal Sciences, Brigham Young University, are standing at the ruins of a rural house mound near the ancient Maya City of Piedras Negras, Peten, Guatemala.
		The elaborate staircase and fine masonry of the structure are illustrative of the wealth of the rural population 2200 to 1200 years before the present (BP).
		Their research examines the agricultural resources that sustained substantial urban and rural populations during the 1000-year history of that ancient city.
	soil.scijournals.org /content/vol69/issue6/cover.shtml (154 words)

	Vallescondido
		However, its owner, Willy Fonseca, is also doing affordable one or two day trips to the ruins at Piedras Negras and other sights are included as well.
		I got the impression that he was relatively generous in payment and I am quite certain that he is a big help in the local economy.
		During the tour of Piedras Negras, Willy took along a sheaf of copies of drawings by Tatiana Proskouriakoff.
	www.mostlymaya.com /vallesc.html (531 words)

	David Webster--Penn State, Department of Anthropology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		His current project, funded by the National Science Foundation, is a re-examination of the large system of apparently defensive earthworks at Tikal, one of the largest of all Classic Maya centers.
		He is also now part of a long-term project at the classic Maya center of Piedras Negras, Guatemala that will last through 2002.
		Webster, David and Stephen Houston--Piedras Negras: The Growth and Decline of a Classic Maya Court Center.
	www.anthro.psu.edu /webster.html (778 words)

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