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Tikal Reports: the series continues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2015

Norman Hammond
Norman Hammond*
Affiliation:
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK (Email: ndch@bu.edu)
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The University of Pennsylvania Museum's Tikal Project of 1958–1968 was one of the great Maya investigations of the twentieth century. It was the most ambitious study of a Maya city so far undertaken, with scores of staff, graduate students and local workers engaged in a range of activities from mapping the site core and its surrounding settlement, to stripping the tropical forest from the colossal temple-pyramids and restoring them, to establishing an occupation history that eventually showed an origin for Tikal in the mid-first millennium BC and abandonment more than sixteen centuries later at the end of the Classic period. The impact of the project's results, publications and cadre of trained Mayanists moving out into the academic world was substantial and led to several decades of a Tikal-centric view of ancient Maya civilisation.

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Antiquity , Volume 89 , Issue 345 , June 2015 , pp. 743 - 745
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2015 

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