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Author:

Solomon, Char, 1949-

Title:

Tatiana Proskouriakoff : interpreting the ancient Maya / by Char Solomon.

Publisher:

University of Oklahoma Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

xv, 218 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Proskouriakoff, Tatiana,--1909-
Mayan languages--Writing.
Inscriptions, Mayan.
Names, Mayan.
Women archaeologists--Latin America--Biography.
Women epigraphists--Latin America--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-195) and index. "Selected writings of Tatiana Proskouriakoff": p. [197]-200.

Contents:

Russian years -- New beginning (1916-1925) -- Architecture at Penn State and beyond (1926-1935) -- Into the jungle : the University of Pennsylvania expeditions (1936-1938) -- Copan and the Carnegie Institution of Washington (1939) -- War years (1940-1944) -- Reconnaissance trips through Central America (1944-1947) -- Mayapan and the demise of the Carnegie Division of Historical Research (1947-1958) -- Resolution and changing priorities (1954-1958) -- Research, hieroglyphs, and further adventure (1958-1965) -- Seminars, jades, and accolades (1965-1985) -- Ceremony of the ashes (1998).

ISBN:

9780806134451 (hc : alk. paper)
0806134453 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48965183

LCCN:

2002020561

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)