Few people visit the interesting ruins of Pajaral, El Petén, Guatemala, located, not far from Laguna San Diego, to the west of Lake Petén Itzá, and in the general vicinity of another important and related site, Zapote Bobal. Ian Graham paid a brief initial visit to Pajaral in the 1970s, and several archaeologists from IDAEH [...]
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A Stela from Pajaral, Guatemala
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Catherwood’s Drawing of Copan, Stela F
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Looking recently at Frederick Catherwood’s 1839 rendering of the back of Copan’s Stela F (published in Stephens’ Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan), I was struck by the presence of three glyphs that I had never seen, now missing or damaged on the original monument. The first photograph of the stela, taken [...]
