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Alfred Maudslay and the Maya Ian Graham

Alfred Maudslay and the Maya By Ian Graham

Alfred Maudslay and the Maya by Ian Graham


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In this fascinating biography, the first ever published about Alfred Maudslay (1850-1931), Ian Graham describes this extraordinary Englishman and his pioneering investigations of the ancient Maya ruins.

Alfred Maudslay and the Maya Summary

Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: A Biography by Ian Graham

In this fascinating biography, the first ever published about Alfred Maudslay (1850-1931), Ian Graham describes this extraordinary Englishman and his pioneering investigations of the ancient Maya ruins.

Maudslay, the grandson of a famous English inventor and engineer, spent his formative adult years in the South Seas as a junior official in Great Britain's Colonial Office. Despite his exotic experiences, he did not find his true vocation until the age of thirty-one, when he arrived in Guatemala.

Maudslay played a crucial role in exploring and documenting the monuments and architecture of the ancient Maya ruins at Palengue Copan, Chichen Itza, and other sites previously unknown. His photographs and plaster casts have proven to be invaluable in the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphics. Personal resources allowed him to undertake fieldwork at a time when no institution provided such support. He made plaster casts of large stone monuments, accurate maps of sites, and painstaking recordings of inscriptions. His Biologia Centrali-Americana, a multivolume compendium of photographs, drawings, plans, and text published almost a century ago, remains an essential foundation for Maya studies. Perhaps Maudslay's greatest legacy is magnificent collection of glass-negative photographs, many of which are reproduced in this book.

About Ian Graham

Ian Graham is the author of Archaeological Explorations in El Peten, Guatemala. He has spent over forty years exploring the Maya area. Graham is the Director of the Maya Corpus Program, which he inaugurated in 1975 at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.

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NPB9780806134505
9780806134505
080613450X
Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: A Biography by Ian Graham
New
Hardback
University of Oklahoma Press
2002-06-30
324
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