by Stephen Houston
Epigraphers await 2012 with trepidation. There will be ill-founded claims, bad Hollywood movies (one now in production), silly reportage, and much distortion of what 2012 meant for the ancient Maya. Every imaginable anxiety will apply to this key event in the Maya calendar. If we are candid, too, there will be renewed interest [...]
Archive for December, 2008
What Will Not Happen in 2012
Posted in Calendar, Reflections, Rituals, Vessels on December 20, 2008 | 13 Comments »
When Archaeology is Destruction
Posted in History of Research, Tonina on December 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The adjacent photo comparison from Tonina, Chiapas, offers sad evidence of how excavated stucco sculpture is rapidly deteriorating at some Maya sites, usually due to disinterest in conservation and an utter lack of thinking ahead. The images are of an important throne in Tonina’s acropolis, decorated with an image of a “star peccary” on its [...]
