Historical Archaeology at Tikal, Guatemala : : Tikal Report 37 / / Hattula Moholy-Nagy.

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• VerfasserIn: Moholy-Nagy, Hattula,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
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The pre-Columbian city we call Tikal was abandoned by its Maya residents during the tenth century A.D. and succumbed to the Guatemalan rain forest. It was not until 1848 that it was brought to the attention of the outside world. For the next century Tikal, remote and isolated, received a surprisingl...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Appendices
• Figures
• Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Settlement Pattern and Scattered Finds
• 3. Material Culture
• Appendix E. Published Records of Visits to Tikal, 1696-1956
• Appendix F. Letter from Edwin M. Shook to Hattula Moholy-Nagy
• Appendix G. Letter from Dennis E. Puleston to Hattula Moholy-Nagy
• Appendix H. Notes on San José Material Culture of the Late 1950s-Early 1960s
• Appendix I. Professor Walter M. Wolfe's Trip to Tikal, 1901
• Appendix J. Research on the Bottles of Tikal by Paul S. Newton
• Appendix K Salvador Valenzuela's Report on the Department of Petén, 1879 (Valenzuela 1951)
• References
• Summary in Spanish
• Figures
• Tables
• Index