Index of all links to Maya art, architecture, archaeology, photography and desktop publishing.

To aid the visitor interested in pre-Columbian art in general and Mayan art in general this index provides a helpful guide to all the other pages in the web site www.maya-art-books. Covers Mayan pyramids, temples, ballcourts, archaeology, as well as the photography and digital imaging equipment and software that facilitates research and publication on prehispanic civilizations. For additional links on Maya art and archaeology from an additional web site, check out the complete index for www.maya-archaeology.org

We are adding new pages and new pictures of Maya art and archaeology every month (easy to do, we have 40,000 color photographs of Maya art, architecture, artifacts, and archaeology in our FLAAR Photo Archive). New pages are indicated in color.

awards for FLAAR Internet sites
Belize, a wonderful country to visit; friendly people, great Maya ruins; recommended hotels
ballgame of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, lecture abstract
- ballgame lectures at annual FLAAR Maya symposium
- animated 3-D QTVR object movie (GIF) of Maya ballplayer figurine
book list, Art & Archaeology Book Service (office in transit, will reopen by next year)
- new glossary of Maya iconography being prepared by FLAAR
camera equipment recommended for use in museums or on expedition
- medium format (Hasselblad or Rolleiflex) is better than 35mm film size
Chama style polychrome Maya vases (see "Maya vase rollouts" as well as "Mayan hieroglyphs")
Copan, report on sculpture prepared for IHAH; recommended hotels, restaurant, in Copan
- menu for images of Copan sculpture
- Jaguar God of the Underworld (on jaguar stairway)
- photogenic Jaguar God of the Underworld (on Stela I on one side of the Main Plaza)
- Copan stela in the Main Plaza (small version)
- other Copan sculpture
- Copan skull
credits and copyright notice
Dedolights, essential lights for photographing artifacts
digital imaging gateway
epigraphy (see "Mayan hieroglyphs, PSS")
FLAAR (grants received and program with Japan's National Museum of Ethnology)
- Photo Archive, II
- FLAAR director, Dr Nicholas M. Hellmuth; co-director, Andrea David
glossary of Maya iconography being finished by FLAAR
hotels at Maya ruins (see "travel to Maya lands, hotels")
lecture abstracts (lectures available in English, German, or Spanish from FLAAR)
- ballgame of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
- How Digital Imaging can Improve Scholarly Research and Reports
- Tomb of the Jade Jaguar, discovery and excavation of the treasures of Tikal
library development
links (an earlier list of links for www.maya-art-books.org)
Los Horcones, Teotihuacanoid stela in Tonola, Chiapas
Maya archaeology, complete index of all subjects on www.maya-archaeology.org
Maya symposium (weekend conference and workshop, especially on the PSS and Maya vase style and iconography)
- past speakers (distinguished archaeologists)
Maya ceramic art; pedestal (ring base) bowl from Campeche-Peten border area
- lid of basal flange bowl, Museo Popol Vuh
- unusual Highland Guatemalan ceramic effigy
- for many other Maya vases and artifacts see listings under "Museo Popol Vuh"
Maya vase rollouts; rollouts by site, site by site; rollouts index, alphabetical
- Chama, low Chama bowl with feline fur pattern and hieroglyph
- several Maya vase rollouts with the FLAAR 70 mm film system made in Belgium
- Holmul Dancer vase, rollout of one panel, Museo Popol Vuh
- history of the development of rollout cameras (first one was made in the 19th century, at the British Museum, to photograph Greek vases!)
- rollouts illustrating symposium schedule
- Tepeu 1, dancing wayob (naguals, alter ego animal spirit companions)
- Tepeu 1 vase with nice PSS, segment showing executioner with small enema jug in front.
- more schedule, with rollout photographs of polychrome Maya vases
Mayan hieroglyphs and epigraphy (introduction to Mayan glyphs and epigraphy)
- PSS, (including two vases never before published, including miniature "sombrero lidded bowl")
- hieroglyph on a low Chama bowl
- another bowl with flawlessly preserved PSS, not previously published
- flawlessly preserved PSS, original, no repainting, reversed (backwards PSS)
Maya art (general discussion)
Museo Popol Vuh, library (FLAAR library on loan to the museum)
- bat and animal effigy, illustrating symposium schedule, public lectures
- Late Protoclassic tetrapod with lid
- Preclassic figurine with punctate eyes
panorama photographs of Tikal
photography in art history, architectural history, and archaeology
- color correction gels are useful for studio photography, Rosco Gels
printing (rather essential for books, but here the focus is more on desktop publishing)
- fabulous paper for using with laser printers, Futura Laser
- desktop binding, especially useful in museums and for any archaeology project
QTVR object movies; gateway to image menu; Maya ballplayer
rollout photographs (see Maya vase rollouts)
Seitz Super Roundshot, 70 mm panorama camera at work at Tikal
software reviews (software which is useful for art history, archaeology, etc.)
- Superbase (Justin Kerr started with this; art historians use it; check it out)
support Maya archaeological research, it's tax deductible
symposium, 1998 FLAAR + BCC Maya archaeology conference and exhibits
- pictures of participants enjoying the '98 Maya symposium in Florida
- speakers (distinguished archaeologists)
- schedule, with lots of nice rollout photographs of polychrome Maya vases
Tiquisate female incensario and double cylindrical tripod, Museo Popol Vuh with FLAAR Library
Teotihuacanoid stela (sharing features with Xochicalco), Los Horcones, Chiapas
Tikal Temples II and IV, spectular photograph from a helicopter; Temple I and North Acropolis
- Tikal Temple I photo in GIF format (instead of JPEG format)
travel to Maya lands, photograph trips to photograph birds, exotic flowers, Maya ruins
travel to Maya lands, hotels
- Belize, list of hotels that are good in this popular Caribbean-Central American travel destination
- SCUBA diving paradise, hotel we prefer in the Bay Islands (Honduras)
- the hotel we prefer in Guatemala City is the Cortijo Reforma
- hotel in Chichicastenango we prefer is the Santo Tomas
- recommended hotel in Tikal (Posada de la Selva, Jungle Lodge)
- recommended hotels in Santa Elena/Flores area, Peten, Guatemala
- recommended hotel at Chichen Itza (Piramide Inn Resort, Piste)
- recommended hotel in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (Hotel Hyatt Regency)
- recommended hotels in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico.
volunteer possibilities
Webmaster notes, by James Robinson, who was the original web designer for FLAAR
- Robinson's suggestions to get around the Web sites the easiest; help page

Equipment, useful for offices, museums, academic departments, and especially for art historians, architects, archaeologists and anthropologists.

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