Word: mayan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sarah B. Hrdy '68 says she loved the opportunities present at Radcliffe when she was studying Mayan culture, but afterwards, the situation changed for her as well...
News of the award reached Menchu in San Marcos, where she had been coordinating opposition to the quincentennial celebration. For the past two years, she has been a leading member of the campaign -- ultimately successful -- to have the U.N. designate 1993 as the International Year for Indigenous Populations. A Mayan of the Quiche group from northwestern Guatemala, she moved to Mexico in 1981, after her father, mother and a brother were killed by government security forces. "I only wish that my parents could have been present," she said last week...
...From Ancient Astronauts to Lost Continents: Fantasies and Facts in Archaeology" is described, in part, this way: "...Extraterrestrial aliens responsible for ancient Mayan culture in Central America...
...incidental as filing tax returns. But last week an excavation among the ancient ruins of Copan, in western Honduras, turned up a find so extraordinary that archaeologists are digging for the proper superlatives to describe it. The discoverers believe that they have uncovered the tomb of a 6th century Mayan king who died before he was 30 years old. Archaeologists stumbled across the temple during a routine dig, and are now calling it the find of their careers. Five hundred tombs have been excavated at Copan during the past 18 years, but only two others have been considered undisturbed royal...
...anthropologist and educator, servedas provost of the University of Chicago. Hisscholarship focuses on early state formation inthe ancient Near East and the New World. Born in1926, Adams' work includes field studies on thehistory of irrigation and urban settlement inIraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran and reconnaissance andexcavation missions of ancient Mayan settlementsin Mexico in the late 1950s...