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Guiding
Concepts for the development of these Web Pages:
This
Maya Archaeology Web site is dedicated to the utilization of advances
in digital photography and scanning to provide information on pre-Hispanic
civilizations of the Americas. The potential of the Virtual Museum format
opens all kinds of possibility for distance learning, instruction over
the Internet, and thereby enhancing public knowledge about our neighbors
in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras.
It is a challenge to make the fabulous color
photographs from the FLAAR Photo Archive available over the Internet,
CD-ROM , or DVD. Better cable delivery systems of the future will soon
make it possible to let students, scholars, and interested lay people
see these large-format photographs in their original quality. New software
such as FlashPix (Live Picture) should help immensely. In the meantime
we do our best to make the images accessible for people to see and learn
about the history of Mexico and Central America.
Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth just came back from six months
working in Central America, assisted by several students from the University
of Hamburg (Germany). They did extensive photography in museums to bring
you outstanding color images of Pre-Columbian art and Archaeology. If
you would like to volunteer to help on projects in Guatemala, and can
cover your own expenses, contact us. It helps if you can speak both German
and English; Spanish is not required because you can quickly learn that
in Central America.
We have selected museums as a means of providing
an organized view into the pre-Columbian past, to learn about life before
the discovery of the Americas by Columbus.
To provide a focus, www.Maya-archaeology.org/ currently
features three institutions: a museum of Olmec and Maya art in Tabasco,
Mexico (Museo Carlos Pellicer), a museum of Maya ceramic art in Guatemala
City (Museo Popol Vuh), and the Copan Museums on Honduras.
We also have abundant photographs of two of the
best museums of Honduras, the new sculpture museum at the site of Copan
and the general archaeology museum in the village of Copan Ruinas. As
funds become available we will include these additional museums. Donations
of equipment (from corporations) and funds (from interested people) are
appreciated. Big thanks to all our Sponsors
Watermark Notice; Copyright Notice
To protect the rights of each museum, every photograph
is digitally watermarked. This is invisible to your eye, but the watermark
can be detected by our watermark security software, no matter where the
picture turns up on the Web. Furthermore, each photograph is copyrighted.
Any reproduction of these images requires the specific written permission
from the museum. The copyright includes any derivative use, such as drawings
which may be rendered from the rollouts, for example. The museums are
considerate in allowing use of these images, but it is necessary to request
permission, render the appropriate acknowledgments and the traditional
compensation, and in general to abide by international copyright laws.
The source of the images should also be cited in any reproduction.
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