[Aztlan] Maya Pictographs

[sharonedgar5 at sbcglobal.net]

How can one purchase "Los Grafitos Mayas"?

Sharon Edgar Greenhill
ArcheoProductions, Inc
2630 Exposition Blvd, Ste 102
Austin, TX 78703
512.477.7515


On Feb 13, 2010, at 8:29 AM, John F. Schwaller wrote:

> *http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new6237
>
> GUATEMALA CITY (EFE).-* Spanish researchers from Valencia University
> presented in Guatemala a book analyzing the meaning of drawings and
> incisions on a Mayan architectural decoration in the form of a mask
> dating back to between 300 and 600 A.D.
>
> The publication "Los Grafitos Mayas" (Mayan Pictographs) has been
> prepared by the team of Spanish and Guatemalan researchers who last
> January announced the discovery of a stucco mask at the La Blanca
> archaeological project in the province of Peten in northern Guatemala.
>
> The book, according to Spanish academic Gaspar Muñoz Cosme, who has
> directed the project for the last six years, "seeks to spark interest
> and vindicate the the importance of pictographs, which are normally  
> seen
> as a minor art" within the Mayan culture.
>
> The decorations on the mask, Muñoz said, "are of great quality, and  
> show
> that whoever sculpted them were true artists," since they were able to
> immortalize the cultural characteristics of that ancestral  
> civilization.
>
> The type of wall paintings known as pictographs or pictograms are
> typically found inside Mayan constructions.
>
> This book, according to Muñoz, is considered the "most extensive and
> complete" scientific publication to date on Mayan pictographs,  
> since it
> compiles a number of studies carried out at different archaeological
> sites in Guatemala, Mexico and Belize.
>
> The Spanish archaeologists found the Mayan mask last year "by  
> chance" in
> the ruins of Chilonche, at some 600 kilometers (373 miles) north of  
> the
> Guatemalan capital. EFE
>
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