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| Ancient skeleton, tomb reveal complexity of Mayan life NEW YORK, May 31 (Reuters Life!) - A 7th century skeleton found in an elaborate tomb in Honduras shows ancient Mayan life in the region was more culturally and socially complex than previously thought, anthropologists said. link... |
 Thanks to the Google Maps API, we have begun creating an interactive map of the Copan valley. So far the map only shows a reconstruction of the Ancient City circa 800 AD with a few important places marked up. We hope to add many layers soon including modern features, locations of more digs, and important ancient structures in the valley, so please check back. Link |
| Digging for Details: Painstaking Research results in Brilliant 3D re-creation of Mayan Ruins. By Rachael Taggart Being offered the chance to record, reconstruct and then create a documentary about a 1,000 year old Maya city is not something that many of us get. Clement Valla, an architectural designer by profession and a 3D freelance modeler by choice, was offered the opportunity in 2005, and has spent the last year planning, traveling, and working on the project. The ultimate result will be a series of video documentaries that reconstruct the city while trying to provide resolution to a number of theories about city planning in at these ancient sites. link.... |
| Allan Maca (PhD, Harvard University, 2002) is the director of PAPAC and a professor of anthropology at Colgate University. He has worked in east and southern Africa, Israel, and in northern California. At Copan he has conducted research on the Comedero, Chorro, Las Sepulturas, and El Bosque sectors of the ancient city. He is interested in indigenous models for ancient urban plans, and in the settlement history of Copan beyond the Principal Group. Maca is involved with large scale conservation concerns in the Copan Valley,m studies of Honduran identity and heritage and its relationship to archaeology, and with the history of method and theory in American arcaheology. At Colgate he teaches courses in anthropology, archaeology, ancient and modern Mexico and Mesoamerica, and Native American Studies. (amaca[at]mail[dot]colgate[dot]edu) Shannon Plank (PhD, Boston University, 2003) is an assistant director of PAPAC and a research associate at Boston University. She has worked on buffalo jump sites in the Great Plains and on Maya sites in Belize and Honduras. Plank is a specialist in Mayan hieroglyphics and is especially concerned with the relationship between epigraphy and archaeology. Plank supervised the area of Group 11K-6 where Tomb 1 was found in March 2005. (plank[at]bu[dot]edu) read more... |
| Ancient Maya Tomb Found: Upright Skeleton, Unusual Location Kelly Hearn for National Geographic News May 17, 2007 Archaeologists working in Honduras have discovered an entombed human skeleton of an elite member of the ancient Maya Empire that may help unravel some longstanding mysteries of the vanished culture. link |
| 2 news articles -both about the tomb in El Bosque 1) The Honduran announcement of the tomb find: http://www.latribuna.hn/news/45/ARTICLE/9251/2007-05-11.html 2)The Security Seminar in Copan, about protecting national monuments: http://www.latribuna.hn/news/45/ARTICLE/9291/2007-05-12.html |