Dieseldorff Collection: Ceramic Corpus of the Terminal Classic Originating from Molds
Translation of the Spanish by Kim Goldsmith
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Research Year:  2004
Culture:  Maya
Chronology:  Terminal Classic
Location:  Verapaces Region, Guatemala
Site:  Department of Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz

Table of Contents

Abstract
Introduction
Erwin Paul Dieseldorff: His Contribution to Guatemalan Archaeology
The Collection
Preliminary Considerations
Conclusions
List of Figures
Sources Cited
Appendix 1:  Previous Publications Related to the Alta Verapaz Region
Appendix 2:  Photocopies of original documents, obtained from the Archive of the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of Guatemala
Appendix 3:  Inventory of Cabinet 96 of the Dieseldorff Collection

Abstract

The region of Las Verapaces, which includes the Departments of Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz, in Guatemala, shows evidence of its interaction with the Mayan lowlands and the Guatemalan plateau through the iconography observed in its ceramics. In spite of its strategic position, this region has not been studied in depth, and it is because of this that there are still questions regarding the local ceramic sequences and the iconographic patterns. Therefore, it is no wonder the first explorers of the zone were the German coffee growers, who, during the nineteenth century and the beginnings of the twentieth, made important findings on their farms, achieving invaluable archaeological collections as a result. Considering the richness of this material, the present project financed by FAMSI has, as its objective, the documentation of a sample of the ceramics from the Terminal Classic (830-900 A.D.) that were made by the use of molds and are part of the Erwin Paul Dieseldorff Collection, which is situated in the National Museum of Archeology and Ethnology in Guatemala.

Submitted 02/24/2005 by:
Mónica Alejandra Pérez Galindo
monicaalejandra@intelnett.com

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