University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Athropology

Volume 8 / Issue 1
(1965)

Issue Cover

Special Issue: Tikal

On the cover: Rubbing of carved design on a large vessel found in a Late Classic burial.


Tikal

Photo of temple
Ten Years of Study of a Maya Ruin in the Lowlands of Guatemala

By: William R. Coe

Introduction By the end of 1966 the fieldwork of the Tikal Project will have ended, though understandable with small sense of completion on the part of the more than ninety staff members who have labored there cumulatively over the years. Tikal, in the forest of El Peten, in northern Guatemala, is too large and opulent […]


Tikal

1965

By: Alfred Kidder, II

As we approach the final year of extensive archaeological work at Tikal it is quite obvious, as the reader of Dr. Coe’s following article will discover, that there is still a long task ahead. This, of course, is the preparation, editing, and final publication of full reports on the numerous excavations, architecture, sculpture, hieroglyphic texts, ceramics, and […]