Volume 2 / Number 2
1960
On The Cover: Part of a decorative carved band on a cylindrical tripod vessel found in a grave in Tikal, Guatemala, by the University Museum's expedition during the 1959 field season. The band depicts two priests receiving a file of warriors who carry throwing sticks and spears. The vessel is believed to have been made at Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico, a thousand miles northwest of Tikal. Drawing by Norman J. Johnston.
Vol. 2 / No. 2
By: J. Alden Mason
Louis Shotridge
Formerly the Museum made a practice of having an American Indian as Assistant in the American Section. Dressed in his […]
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Vol. 2 / No. 2
By: Linton Satterthwaite
Maya “Long Count” Numbers
The new earliest “Long Count” or “Initial Series” date on Tikal Stela 29 is transcribed as “8.12.14.8.15 13 Men 3 […]
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Vol. 2 / No. 2
By: Rodney S. Young
Gordion: Phrygian Construction and Architecture
The traveller in Near Eastern lands cannot help but be struck by the hundreds of ancient mounds–Tels or Tepes or […]
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Vol. 2 / No. 2
By: Edwin M. Shook
Tikal Stela 29: The oldest dated Lowland Maya monument is unearthed in the jungles of Guatemala. For a discussion of Maya dates the reader is referred to the accompanying article by Linton Satterthwaite.
Just short of a century ago, in 1864, canal diggers working in the steaming heat of a coastal swamp a […]
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Vol. 2 / No. 2
By: Ellen L. Kohler
An Etruscan Tomb-Guardian
The Etruscans are still a mysterious people to us because at the present state of our knowledge we cannot answer […]
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Vol. 2 / No. 2
By: A.V. Kidder
Wanted: More and Better Archaeologists
This article, from The Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 83, and here reprinted under a new title and […]
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Vol. 2 / No. 2
Tikal: A Map of the Central Portion of a Famous Maya Ruin in the Lowlands of Guatemala
Mapping at Tikal has been going on since the 1957-58 season. It is a slow, difficult job, made so by […]
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Vol. 2 / No. 2
Where in the World?
We thought and thought when we first saw the color slide from which this picture was made but couldn’t identify […]
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