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To aid the visitor who is interested in Maya
art, books on pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and perhaps interested
in how digital technology is aiding archaeologists, epigraphers,
iconographers, and art historians, here is a comprehensive index
of all the information on another web site, www.maya-art-books.org.
- 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
- Book
list, Art
& Archaeology Book
Service (office in transit, will reopen by next year)
- Camera equipment
recommended for use in museums or on expedition
- Copan, report
on sculpture prepared for IHAH; recommended hotels,
restaurant, in
Copan
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 textiles, book
on textiles by Professor Yoshiho Yasugi
- Maya vase rollouts
- Mayan hieroglyphs and epigraphy (introduction
to Mayan
glyphs and epigraphy)
- Maya art (general
discussion)
- Museo Popol Vuh, library (FLAAR
library on loan to the museum)
- 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 are interest is more desktop publishing)
- 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
- 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
- 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 (more than Mayan Inn)
- 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
Equipment, useful for offices, museums, academic
departments, and especially for art historians, architects,
archaeologists and anthropologists.
- 35mm color slides, how
to handle an archive full of slides (with 40,000 slides
we have experience)
- Desktop publishing, the new generation
of color copiers as alternative to color laser printers
- Xerox DocuColor 40
- Spiral binding, wire binding, plastic
binding (desktop binding)
- Desktop publishing, choosing paper is as
important as selecting which printer to use
- Dicomed
digital scanning cameras for 4x5 large format, Dicomed
Field Pro
- Encad, wide
format printer (color
ink jet); Encad
media and inks
- Flatbed scanners (see also www.cameras-scanners-flaar.org
and www.flatbed-scanner-review.org)
- Logan slide
storage boxes, how to safely store all your 35mm color
slides
- Rexam
Graphics media for wide format printers
- Sponsors, corporate
benefactors, companies who have provided products
- Wide format printing (large format ink
jet printers)
- Media
(photo paper, banner paper, etc) from Rexam Graphics
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