[Aztlan] Some Maya Q's

[David Hixson]

Here's another forwarded message from Hasso Hohmann:

Hi!
I wrote about the question of suspension bridges at
Copan in my publication "Die Architektur der
Sepulturas-Region von Copan", Graz, 1995, Vol.I, pages
309-318 and also compared the discussed hypothetic
bridge of Copan with the possible bridge at Yaxchilan
and offered a possible way how to cross the Usumacinta
at this Maya site (see fig. 628!). The text is written
in German language - reason to ignore such literature
in English speaking countries! Teobert Maler wrote
already about the "pier" at Yaxchilan in 1903 on page
105,"Researches in the Central Portion of the 
Usumacinta Valley", Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of
American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. II, No. 2;
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Best wishes,
Hasso Hohmann.


--- David and Fiona Gray <davefiona at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>          I read an old National Geographic about the
> suspension bridge at Yaxchillian. From other things
> that I have read it seems that some think that there
> was a bridge there and others think  that the data
> has been misinterpreted.  They are yet to find the
> northern side of the   bridge. In the story that I
> am writing I need a place  for a small group of
> people to cross the Usamacinta (sp) river. Are there
> any crossing places that Maya use either today on in
> antiquity. Also what is the hydrological history of
> the river has it course change much in the last 2000
> years. 


      ____________________________________________________________________________________
Never miss a thing.  Make Yahoo your home page. 
http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs