Jade
working at the Maya ruins of Copan, Honduras
 Archaeologists
working at Copan uncovered several sacred offerings of jade which was
not fully finished. These artifacts reveal all the ancient tool marks,
so studying these will help learn about how the Maya carved jade, which
is harder than steel. The Maya themselves had no metal tools.
This section of the Maya archaeology
web site will be updated periodically as we have time and funding to add
new material about jade working in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.
FLAAR offers courses of instruction
in jade, at Copan.
The FLAAR Art & Archaeology Book
Service offers books on Maya jade.
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