Miscellaneous Investigations in Central Tikal--The Plaza of the Seven Temples: Tikal Report 23C (University Museum Monograph, 23C) - Hardcover

Loten, H. Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1934536954 ISBN 13: 9781934536957

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2018

Synopsis

The Great Maya center of Tikal, in Guatemala, is famous for its well-preserved architecture. This book presents descriptions of nine structures that line the Plaza of the Seven Temples, which sits immediately west of the South Acropolis of Central Tikal. These structures were surveyed with little or no excavation as part of the Tikal Project Standing Architecture Survey. This report is the primary record of these structures in Tikal's urban landscape, and it provides clear, precise, and usable architectural analyses for Mayanists, archaeologists, art historians, architectural historians, urbanists, and those interested in construction techniques and in the uses of Maya buildings.

University Museum monograph, 147

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About the Author

H. Stanley Loten is Architect and Distinguished Research Professor at Carleton University.

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Editors' Note

Tikal Reports present the results of the University of Pennsylvania excavations from 1956-1969, largely in accord with the projected scheme set out by William R. Coe and William A. Haviland in Tikal Report 12. A great deal of research has taken place at Tikal since those investigations were completed with, in particular, several important projects undertaken by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala and the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional. Since their work has often enlarged upon that conducted by the University of Pennsylvania,—in some cases excavating the same structures—there is a clear opportunity to integrate recent and historical investigations to produce a synthetic treatment. This idea is undoubtedly appealing, but it is one we have resisted for the monograph series. The reasons are threefold. Firstly, consistency of scope and presentation was integral to the original scheme and has been implemented in all the reports published thus far. Secondly, the Tikal Report authors do not have access to the newly produced data to anything like the extent necessary to do that work justice. Thirdly, to produce synthetic treatments of this kind would introduce very considerable delays in publishing future Tikal Reports, hampering the work of those scholars and students who could make immediate use of the data they contain. In acknowledgment of subsequent work, the introduction to each volume in the series will henceforth note where later work has taken place on the same structures and reference the relevant publications. Even without the addition of new data, the Tikal Report series provides needed information on things that can no longer be observed first hand, either because of excavation or continuing destruction by the elements.

William A. Haviland
Simon Martin
Series Editors

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934536954
• ISBN 13: 9781934536957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144