Architectural Restoration Criteria in the Maya Area
Translation of the Spanish by Alex Lomónaco
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Research Year:  2000
Culture:  Maya
Chronology:  Pre-Columbian
Location:  Mesoamerica
Site:  Maya Area

Table of Contents

Introduction
Some Backgrounds
Definitions and General Conservation Criteria
Monument
Social Function
Conservation
Restoration
The Ruin
Restoration Methods
Liberation, Analysis and Diagnosis
Stabilization, or Consolidation
Reassemblage
Repairs
Reinforcements or Liners
Collapsed Walls
Reintegration, or Anastylosis
Topography
Documentation
Fallen Walls
Marking Stones
Conclusions about Reintegration
A Few Examples
Copán
Structure 9N-82
Structure 10L-22A
Structure 10L-29
Palenque
Chichén Itzá
Integration, or Complements
The Mark of our Age
Concrete and Iron
Inset Faces
Restitution of Volumes
Small Stones and Thin Flagstones
A Technique of My Own
Materials
Mortars
Ashlar Masonry, or Stone Blocks
Degradation and Protection
Kaminaljuyú
Tikal
Xunantunich
Copán
What Can We Do?
Trying to Attain Climatic Stability
Drainage of Rain Water, Number One Enemy: The Case of Copán’s Archaeological Cut
Conclusion
List of Figures
List of Photographs
Sources Cited

Submitted 02/12/2001 by:
Carlos Rudy Larios Villalta
carrularios@gmail.com

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