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Spring 2016 ARCHAEOMAYA the NEWSLETTER of MAYA EXPLORATION CENTER 1 Maya Exploration Center Spring 2016 ARCHAEOMAYA THE NEWSLETTER OF MAYA EXPLORATION CENTER In this Issue: Call to Action – Support a Maya Cultural Revival rd • The 3 International 500 years ago the Congress of Maya Maya people were Quisque: forcibly separated from Epigraphers their written language, outlawed by the New Discoveries at • Spanish priests as El Zotz pagan idolatry. The Maya script remained • Community Service lost to the world until the 1970’s when a team at Yaxuna of Western scholars in • Adventure to El Palenque put the puzzles of the puzzle Mirador back together. Now, the Maya themselves are News from the Field • regaining the script of A modern Maya stela erected in front of Iximche their ancestors. And it’s • Introducing – MEC not just a handful of curious Maya-born scholars, but hundreds of Mini Trex Maya people. And those hundreds are banding together with the goal of teaching hundreds of others Maya to read and write in On the Horizon: hieroglyphs. It’s truly a cultural revival. Not only is this growing group of glyph-literate Maya reading • Palenque to Copan ancient texts, they are creating new ones. At first it was simple Thanksgiving tour histories and poems on paper, but now new stelae are being erected! In front of Iximche, the former Kakchiquel capital burned by Pedro de • Michael Grofe as Alvarado in 1526, the local Maya erected a new stela recounting their MAM’s new long history, their continued survival, and celebrating the arrival of the 13th Baktun in 2012. The Maya community of Piste, next to president Chichen Itza, did the same for 2012. In all eight new stelae have • Dr. Barnhart on sprouted up across Mexico and Guatemala. After 500 years of acculturation and marginalization, the Maya are proclaiming in their Ancient Aliens own original written language – we are still here! • Summer Tours with In just a few months this group of trail blazing Maya will hold Dr. Teague their Third International Congress of Maya Epigraphers. The plan is for hundreds of Maya people from near and far to meet in El Remate, • New archaeology Guatemala under the shadow of the ancient Maya capital of Tikal. Apps For many would-be attendees the costs of travel and lodging are Continued on page 3 12 Maya Exploration Center Spring 2016 Letter from the Director MEC Board Chairman This edition also presents Edwin L. Barnhart, Ph.D. our 2016 tour schedule and our Secretary exciting new program – Mini Charles C. Williams Trex. Four new, short length Treasurer tours are now offered for busy Blair Duncan people who want to explore Officers Mesoamerica but simply can’t Fred Barnhart find the time for a full tour. Mini LeAndra Luecke Bridgeman Trex are tailor-made for today’s “weekend warriors”. Join me as Research Associates Carl Callaway, Ph.D. Hello again! In response I personally lead short James Eckhardt to a wave of concerned emails, adventures to Teotihuacan, Kirk French, Ph.D. no, the MEC e-newsletter has not Palenque, Chichen Itza and Harold Green, Ph.D. been discontinued. We’ve just Oaxaca. Also, back by popular Michael Grofe, Ph.D. decided to make it bi-annual demand, we’re offering another David Hixson, Ph.D. instead of quarterly. With adventure to the Pre-Classic Carol Karasik changing times and rolls for Mega-City of El Mirador. The Alonso Mendez MEC, we’ve concluded that two a dates in early June are coming up Alfonso Morales fast in order to avoid the start of Walter F. Morris year will suffice. From now on the rainy season, so don’t delay if Christopher Powell, Ph.D. you can expect just spring and Kirk Straight, Ph.D. fall editions. you want to join. Heather Teague, Ph.D. As the days warm and the For the lead article in this MEC Staff first ArchaeoMaya of 2016 we flowers bloom here in Austin, I Edwin L. Barnhart, Ph.D. chose a rallying call to support look forward to MEC’s potential modern Maya efforts to regain growth in 2016. We’ve already Newsletter Editor their ancestors’ written language. started off well, with community Edwin L. Barnhart, Ph.D. The 3rd International Congress of service work in Yaxuna, support Mayan Epigraphers promises to for MAM’s campaign, and a Contact MEC be their largest teaching public lecture presented in 3267 Bee Caves Rd workshop to date. The more we Houston’s Natural History Suite 107-161 Museum. I have high hopes for Austin, TX 78746 can donate to its organizers, the the popularity of our new Mini Phone: 512-350-3321 more dedicated, Maya born scholars can afford to attend the Trex programs and hope to see On the Web event. Other articles in this many of you with me on the www.mayaexploration.org edition of ArchaeoMaya include adventure trail. We are also on an explanation of our wonderful target to surpass 2000 people on Email new relationship with the this vetted e-newsletter list. I [email protected] Yucatec community of Yaxuna usually end my letter saying and a brief history of research at MEC would not exist without El Zotz. Once a virtually you, but this time I feel like unknown archaeological site, El saying thanks for helping MEC Zotz is now the talk of the Maya thrive in 2016. academic community. For that Happy Spring, reason, MEC will be leading a Contents of this newsletter © 2016 tour there in June! Maya Exploration Center 2 32 Maya Exploration Center Spring 2016 Call to Action…(continued from page 1) beyond their financial reach. That’s where MAM comes in. MAM stands for Mayans for Ancient Maya and is a non-profit association that has supported Maya glyph workshops since 2005. While the Maya are now organizing their congresses by themselves, they still welcome MAM’s financial support. Towards that end, MAM has launched a crowd funding campaign to raise $29,000. 100% of those funds will be given out as 100, $290 scholarships for Maya scholars and students to attend the conference. MEC had donated $500 to MAM’s campaign, and a handful of generous MEC community members have collectively given much more. Please consider joining us in supporting this exciting cultural revival. Just think about – when has such a thing ever happened? When has a culture regained its lost script 500 years later? This is a first in world history and you can say you helped make it happen. The online crowd funding campaign will continue through April, but please don’t delay your participation. Learn more and donate at: http://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/maya-revival--2 General Public Educational Tours from MEC El Mirador, Nakbe and El Zotz Palenque to Copan June 3 – 8, 2016 November 18 – 27, 2016 If you've visited Running over the many Maya ruins, Thanksgiving Holiday you probably know week, the journey will the largest of all the begin with tours of ruins were built very Palenque, Bonampak early and in the heart and Yaxchilan in of the Peten Southern Mexico. rainforest. The Pre-Classic cities of El Mirador Crossing the Usumacinta River into and Nakbe are both gigantic and wonders to Guatemala, you'll arrive to the island of Flores behold with your own eyes. While MEC will in time to tour Lake Peten all afternoon. Then make every effort to provide a comfortable its up at dawn and all day exploring Tikal's trip, the journey out to see them is not easy. It vast metropolis. The next day continues south will involve helicopters, jungle camps, and to a beautiful Lago Isabel where a Maya-style long treks through the rainforest. In addition to Thanksgiving dinner will be served. Last stop, these Pre-Classic mega-cities, participants will Copan, where an entire day will be spent also visit the site of El Zotz, its red painted exploring the ruins, the tunnels underneath "Diablo Temple" and the royal tomb found them, and Copan's incredible sculpture within. museum. http://mayaexploration.org/tours_el http://mayaexploration.org/tours_pal mirador_june16.php enque-copan_nov16.php 3 12 Maya Exploration Center Spring 2016 Exciting New Discoveries at El Zotz Donec Until about a during which Teotihuacaninterdum arrived. Bejucal, an El decade ago, El Zotz Zotz subsidiary site about 4 miles to the southwest was simply that big had a stela that named Siyah K’ak’ of Teotihuacan as Maya ruins you El Zotz’s overlord at that same time. could visit if you went to the chiclero Since 2012 a top-notch team led by project co- camp at Uaxactun directors Edwin Roman of the University of Texas at and hired them to Austin and Thomas Garrison of the University of bring you there by Southern California has conducted the excavations. horse back. Today, Their investigations in the city center have added its one of the most intriguing new dimensionsPellentesque: to the site’s history. exciting ruins under Evidence in the Five Temples section shows that El active investigation. Zotz broke with its Early Classic overlord Tikal to The most recent find – a second royal tomb, this become part of the Calakmul hegemony. Its ties with time a Late Classic ruler named Bakab K’inich. El Peru were strong and it shared an emblem glyph Add that tomb to massive temples, stunning with Yaxchilan, both also Calakmul allies. While stuccos facades and another, older royal tomb and Tikal stagnated under Calakmul’s thumb, El Zotz was you get an archaeological site that’s catching thriving. But when Tikal broke free, their fortune headlines around the world.
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